Aborted Babies Burned For Fuel In Oregon

This post will make you sick, and I am sorry for that.  But it's important we understand what is going on in this country.

On The Matt Walsh Blog, he recently had a post on the fact that aborted Canadian babies were being sent to Oregon to provide electricity to residents.  (aborted babies as well as things like amputated legs and cancerous tissue).

Please click here to read the post.

I am sickened on so many levels about this I am not even going into much detail.  Have we no respect for life that we can't even give unwanted (murdered) babies a proper burial?  We already know that their lives apparently meant nothing, but the fact that we would then burn them for electricity, I can't even understand it.

This is where our country is people.  This is how we have progressed.  Proud to be an American, perhaps not.

I would like to take a moment and address the fact that some people would say this isn't really a problem.  It's what you would do if you were cremated.  Listen, I am all for cremation, in fact, that is what I have requested for myself when I die.  But I am against burning these babies with other medical "garbage" for fuel.

Because really, by dumping them with waste, it only shows that we have no respect for life. Cremate the babies respectfully, or bury them.  Don't dispose of them with the garbage.  If people really think it is appropriate to handle death that way, then why don't we start digging up all the cemeteries in the US, and start burning those bodies for fuel?

There was an update at the bottom of the post as follows:

"Update: LifeSiteNews reports that the Marion County Board of Commissioners have announced that the practice of burning aborted babies for power will be stopped immediately. They claim that they were unaware of the practice, but will now put it to an end."

  

Inspiration to Steal!

I follow Rage Against the Minivan religiously.  We don't necessarily line up on every view, but I love her blog.  They recently posed for the cover of OC magazine.  And I am totally stealing this idea for our Christmas card next year.  Even if it will be a lot uncooler as we all trail behind each other to get into the Dodge caravan.

My Favorite Soup

I could eat chicken tortilla soup a lot.  Like every day regardless if it is 100 degrees outside or 20. Edie from Life In Grace just posted her recipe last week.  And you better believe that it is making it into my May meals.



Here for the recipe.

And I totally fell off the planned menus for April, but baby, I am back on for May.

If You Wouldn't Say It About A Boob Job Don't Say It About Adoption

Came across this hilarious clip.  Basically it's guidelines for people that have adoption questions and to remember before they talk that if they wouldn't say it to someone with a boob job, don't say it to adoptive families.  I think you'll get a kick out of it.

You can find his twitter account here Jesse Butterworth, and yes, he is an adoptive parent.

6th Grade Reading List (Homeschool)

Ava will be in 6th grade next year, and I have had a blast picking curriculum.  Hands down, my favorite has been literature.  The girl reads at an extreme level for her age, and we will not do a formal literature program- just good books.



I read The Book Whisperer, and I highly recommend you look into it.  She basically says give a kid enough books to find what they like to read, letting them quit and start new ones if they don't like what they are on, and eventually they will like reading.  And that schools are destroying reading for kids by making them do endless book reports and grammar lessons with what they are reading. Instead of book reports, she has the kids do journaling.  The kids write about what they read and liked and she responds back to them in their journal.  We will be doing the same thing this year.



She also requires her kids to read 40 books a year.  Yep, you read that right.  The least amount of books someone has read in her class is 22.  Twenty two books.  Amazing.

So for Ava, I have gone and made a list of books, quite a few more than 40, but I honestly don't expect her to finish them all.  I searched book lists and put down books I love and came to this grouping.  She will be allowed to read any books off this list, in any order that she wants.  She can stop a book if she doesn't like it, but our end year goal is 40.

Here is our list, in no particular order:

Through the Looking Glass
Peter Pan
The Secret Garden
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Fever 1793
Anne of Green Gables
Enders Game
Robinson Crusoe
The Borrowers
Mysterious Benedict Society
Little Women
Wizard of Oz
Sherlock Holmes
The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe
Kensuke's Kingdom
Around the World in 80 Days
Wind in the Willows
Adventures of Robin Hood
Jungle Book
The Little Prince
Gregor the Overlander
Matilda
A Wrinkle In Time
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler
A Little Princess
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Princess Bride
Treasure Island
Lost World (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, not Michael Crichton)
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
Pippi Longstocking
Cryptid Hunters
Eragon
Ravenmaster's Secret
The Secret Zoo
Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Watership Down
All Creatures Great and Small
The Moffats
All the Little House books
Redwall
Mary Poppins- first three books
The Ship That Sailed to Mars
East of the Sun and West of the Moon
Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell
Journey to the Center of the Earth
One Crazy Summer
The Westing Game
The Borrowers Afield
Mr. Popper's Penguins
Island of the Blue Dolphins
My Side of the Mountain
The Giver

Most of them are considered classics for kids, and probably you are wondering where Harry Potter is- well, she's read them already.  There also isn't any Hunger Games even though it popped up on every 6th grade reading list I saw, as well as some other books that I would deem "not yet".  I was a little surprised at how many books seemed mature for a 6th grader.

Also, if you have any suggestions that aren't here I would LOVE them.  I say the list is for Ava, but if I am totally honest, children's literature is my favorite to read!

Shirley Temple

The kids and I hung out with friends on Monday when the weather hit 70 and finally melted the 22 inches of snow we got last Wednesday.

We all promptly got sunburned and are now paying the consequences of time outside with no sunscreen.  Oops.

Came across the recipe for a Shirley Temple (no alcohol), and it made me so giddy for summer I had to share the picture and the link to go and make your own.  Especially because mother nature has been a beast, and now we are only supposed to be in the 50's until May.  :(


Yummy, no?

Click here to get the know how from the blog This Lil Piglet.

Baby Fever

I don't even know who this baby is, but don't you just want to squish him?  I could have put pictures of my kids up, but they were not cute when they were this age.  I know, it's a terrible thing to say, but they didn't come out looking adorable.  Probably Moyz and Kembia did, but we unfortunately don't have pictures when they were that teeny tiny.

Several of my favorite bloggers have all had babies lately.

1.  Sherry from Young House Love

2.  Julia from Chris Loves Julia

3.  Grace from Camp Patton is due soon

4.  Katie from Bower Power

And Jen from Made by Girl and her husband are hoping to adopt.  And my sister in law is pregnant with her seventh.  And from her pregnancy I learned that once you are over 35 it is called a geriatric pregnancy.  How's that for an ego booster?

Apparently, there is something in the water in this country!