This is so hard.  I'm trying to figure out whether I just need to keep at it, push through, keep trying, or if this is a horrible failure and I just need to stop the losses and go home ( Read more... )

A local judge has ruled that taxpayers must fund the sex change operation of a convicted murderer because she suffers from gender identity disorder and the 8th amendment requires that we provide her with all necessary medical care, and her doctors say she needs to have a complicated operation to turn her penis inside out to form a vagina.   (I have ( Read more... )

One of the central blessings of my life is that I chose to have children.  Although the children are often blessings, the central blessing here is the CHOICE.  Almost unique in the history of mankind, my children were born to parents who waited until they were married, educated, had a house and planned the timing of the pregnancies pretty much to ( Read more... )

I feel so unsatisfied after seeing Brave.  I wanted it to be such a bigger story than it was.  I expected a "coming of age" story, but instead I got one about how a little girl successfully held onto her mommy-focused childhood despite pressure to grow up.  Mothers everywhere will leave holding their six year old's hand saying "See, I'll *ALWAYS* ( Read more... )

My eldest child has a double major and won't have enough credits in one of them because of the year she spent in China.  So she's spending an extra semester at college.

Her scholarship, however, was for four years, not four and a half.  So that last semester is on us.

Last night we were filling out the financial aid application and it hit me anew: ( Read more... )

Small Boy has been hinting for some weeks now that he's getting kind of sweaty.  Well, duh, it gets hot in the summer and we're out riding bikes and gardening and using our bodies.  "No," he says, he's sweating because he's "becoming a teenager.  Want to smell my underarms?" he inquires pertly?  I have always replied the same thing, "No, you're not ( Read more... )

Today the pair of Fiskars came that I had ordered for Small Boy.  I pointed to them on the table and told him to cut something.  He picked them up in his right hand and I said, "no, try it with your left hand."  He picked them up with his left hand and his eyes LIT UP as he easily sliced the paper ( Read more... )

This is a series of posts trying to get my head in the right place for losing fat.  The meme is to do ten items on this subject related to the letter of the day.

C is for...

( Calories, and nine others. )

So, drop-side cribs, the most common available, have just been out-lawed after "dozens of deaths ( Read more... )

Hour # 433 Cleaning Small Boy's Room ( Read more... )