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It seems like I keep ending up blogging while sitting on the (closed) toilet (fully clothed). It seems like the best way to make use of my time while I supervise a certain Little Miss as she splashes and plays in the bathtub. If I'm not blogging while she plays in the tub I usually use that time to clean the bathroom (which I will probably do just as soon as I hit the publish post button.
As a side note, where can I find a toddler proof bath tub plug?! And why does Little Miss insist on pulling it out?!
Now she has just discovered that while she bathes her siblings are dining and she is alternating between insisting that she eat and that she needs to potty. She really is trying to sabotage my attempts to sit down long enough to type an entire blog entry in one sitting*.
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My mind has been preoccupied with the subject of abortion lately. This often happens to me during my pregnancies as I fight so hard to protect the life inside of me while others seek to destroy the life inside of them. This is compounded when I look at images of tiny little babies - who look so very much like BABIES and I wonder how anyone could not have the the instinct to nurture and protect?!
There is a website I discovered when Sarah was a baby where I mostly read but occaisionally post. On this site a single mother of 3 shared that she had irresponsibly gotten pregnant and was choosing to have an abortion rather than take on the responsibility for her actions. I was gobsmacked when she came back after her 'procedure" and shared that seein
g the sonogram had "confirmed her feeling that this was the right thing to do" and that the baby was "so much smaller than she had expected and "completely lacked any form or definition".
g the sonogram had "confirmed her feeling that this was the right thing to do" and that the baby was "so much smaller than she had expected and "completely lacked any form or definition".Wow. Denial is not just a river in Egypt. Maybe on that particular sonogram machine form and definition were not present, but they were most definately there! She would have been about as far along as I am. My baby has arms and legs, which it moves spontanteiously.
What do you think, does this look like a "lack of definition" to you?!
I am proud to say that I did speak up, firmly yet gently before the mother acted upon her choice to end her child's life. I spoke up not only in defense of the child's life, but the consequence that choosing abortion would have on the mother long term. She will have to live every day with what she has done. The child is no longer in danger, the damage to him or her is done and over with and he or she is living in eternal peace with God. I obeyed and spoke truth to the mother in a non accusatory way and can walk away blameless.
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Little Miss has a cold, which she has been fighting off since about Monday. Her nose is now truly congested and rather than let her suffer I am making a natural decongestant for her (since there are no baby and toddler safe ones on the market these days.
The key ingredient is an onion. Last year, because she was less than a year old I used brown sugar rather than honey. This year I used honey because honey is more beneficial and she is well over a year and past period of being susceptible to botulism.
You cut an onion into thin layers and put it in a jar with a layer of brown sugar or honey between each layer. You then stab the layers repeatedly to get the onions juices flowing. The first dose should be ready in about 20 minutes, and the medicinal syrup should be completed in about 24 hours at which point you strain the onion bits out of the juice. Some recipes call for simmering the concotion (you get more juice out of the onion this way I believe) but I have not tried that yet. Maybe later. Combining the juices with lemon juice and warm water has even more benefits!
Last year when I used just an onion and brown sugar I found the remedy to have benefit. We'll see how this slightly different concoction works this year. As with all cold remedies, the results are only temporary.
Garlic and honey are also very beneficial in combination. Just in case you were wondering. ;)
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Ever prayerful...
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I am just about finished reading Dr. Laura's new book In Praise of Stay-At-Home Moms and I must say it is a MUST READ for all mother's everywhere - even those who work outside the home - and all women who might someday become mothers!I am a HUGE Dr. Laura fan. Especially since reading The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands when my husband and I were newly married.
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I killed my iPhone this week. I have dropped it a million times but apparently this was one time too many. At my doctor appointment on Monday my phone was still in my pocket when I took my pants off. As I folded my pants up the phone slipped out of my pocket and landed face down with a thud on the floor immediately killing the screen. Oh, it lit up, but all I got was a blank white screen. I couldn't even turn it off to try to turn it back on! And worst of all, my lap top stopped recognising it as an external device a few months ago and I can't figure out how to get my pictures off of it!
Fortunately, we had a spare iPhone. Who has a spare iPhone laying around you ask? Well, someone who lost said iPhone at the grocery store and miraculously found it the day after replacing it. I just need to get it reactivated!
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Because my house has so few 3 hole prong outlets I am at the moment sitting awkwardly on the floor next to the wall in my living room that seperates said room from the rest of the house. It is the wall shared by my (way too tiny) bedroom. Being that we have been in this house for a whopping 2 months, and I have spent a month of that time laying exhausted and gestating on the couch (yeah first trimester) the wall is bare and the only furniture in the room is a couch and our large dining room table (which has no hope of fitting into the house's very small dining room. Both of these items of furniture are on the other side of the room. Yet as I sit here my eyes lock onto splotches of reddish orange on the wall. I'm assuming they came from something once edible, but as far as WHAT that was, your guess is as good as mine! Ew!
*Between Takes 2 and 3 I had to refill the bath tub, bath Little Miss, drain the tub, dry her, put Frizz Ease in her hair, lotion her up, make the concotion in Take 3, and then lay down with her for a nap. In the middle of Take 7 I had to get up and go snuggle her back to sleep before sneaking away to finish my blog entry.
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