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Homeschooling: A Green Solution?

Another Earth Day has come and gone, and lately I’ve been thinking… …about the recent ruling in California against homeschooling families. Here in Southern California the state “religion” seems to be recycling, conservation and environmentalism. I’m all for recycling. I’m all for taking care of the earth God entrusted to us. My husband and I [...]

Teenage girls become Moms at Polygamist Compound

It all started with a brave 16-year-old girl who called a local family violence shelter to report her 50-year-old husband beat and raped her. Officials still aren’t sure where the 16-year-old girl is who made the initial call, and she is not named among the children in initial custody petitions by the state. Texas has [...]

God Must Have Autism

by @ Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008. Filed under Autism, Hot Topics, Mommie Stuff, Who We Are

God must have autism. All the planets spin. The stars twinkle in a spectacular display of visual sensory input. Today, April 2nd, is World Autism Day. This is a day to advocate for people with autism, and to spread awareness. Autism affects four times more boys than girls, and impairs a person’s social awareness, communication [...]

Product Recalls and CHRISTmas Shopping

by @ Monday, December 17th, 2007. Filed under Hot Topics, In the News, Product Recalls and Warnings

What do you think of all the product recalls related to China this past year? Is it affecting your CHRISTmas shopping? It is mine! What are your thoughts? Side Note: Not China Made is a great site for those of you who are concerned about this subject. You will be updated o the latest product [...]

How far is too far?

by @ Friday, November 16th, 2007. Filed under Coffee Chats, Hot Topics, In the News, Thinking Out Loud

OK, the government has been sticking there noses into the business of parents way to much over the past several years in my opinion. As my friend, Elizabeth so eloquently put it; “I wish the government would get out of the parenting business. It is one of the many failings of the “it takes a [...]

Truth Matters! HOW do we teach them that??

OK, so I thought this would be a good discussion topic…especially since I am and have been dealing with it as a Mom! Telling the Truth v/s Lying to Stay out of Trouble Let me share a little bit about how I feel about truth/lie. I grew up with a Mother who lied about everything. [...]

A Week Without TV

by @ Monday, October 1st, 2007. Filed under Family & Kids, Morality, Shooting the Breeze, Thinking Out Loud

Due to my oldest daughters bad additude we  are going this week without tv during the day. It surprises me how much influence the tv can have over our kids and even ourselves. So because of additude issues we have decided we are going to eliminate this influence over my kids lives until they realize [...]

Where do we Draw the Line?

by @ Monday, September 10th, 2007. Filed under AHHHH!, Mommie Stuff, Morality, Thinking Out Loud

I don’t know what kind of towns you ladies live in, but I live in Central Florida. We have Universal Studios and Bush Gardens. They BOTH have a Halloween event each year…which I really do not care what they do….EXCEPT…the billboards! I mean they scare ME! And, I do not scare easy! They are EVERYwhere. [...]

A Moms Calling

Call this a thinking out loud session…LOL First…I LOVE LOVE LOVE my children and I would not go back and change any of it…well…maybe the weight gain…LOL… OK… I believe Motherhood is the highest calling. We have been given such a HUGE responsibility to not only raise our children right…but as Christian Mothers, raise them IN [...]

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