carol | December 31, 2009
Middle-class parents too busy to teach children how to talk, says ‘communication champion’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1239737/Middle-class-parents-busy-teach-children-talk-says-communication-champion.html#ixzz0bJVbkxF3
carol | December 31, 2009
Christmas must go on! Wonder mother pops out to give birth and serves up turkey two hours later
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1239595/Christmas-Wonder-mother-pops-birth-serves-turkey-hours-later.html#ixzz0bJV00BN3
“‘I had prepared most of the dinner before I went into labour so everything was in the oven and ready to go before I left.’”
“‘Everything went really well, Lexi was born and I was back to serve the meal an hour later. It was quite surreal.’”
carol | December 31, 2009
I am sure you have watched Father of the Bride and Father of the Bride 2. Well, they are based on movies from the early fifties. The original sequel was called Father’s Little Dividend and it was filmed in 1951. I found the following section very interesting in regard to attachment parenting. The father, Stanley Banks (Spencer Tracy), and his daughter Kay (Elizabeth Taylor) were saying that everyone should stop interfering in her pregnancy. She went on to explain her doctor’s radical views which certainly shocked her father.
Kay: “I guess they just don’t understand the new way of looking at things. As Dr. Nordell says, birth is a perfectly natural thing, a glorious thing, and wants you to be conscious every minute so you they don’t miss a second of it. He believes a woman should be aware of the wonderful thing that is happening to her. And another thing, he doesn’t believe that a woman should be separated from her baby for one second after it’s born. You should carry it with you, right back to your room, and keep it there with you, sleeping right there with you in your hospital bed.”
Stanley Banks: “That is a little new isn’t it.”
Kay: “Oh, Pop, that’s not new! Primitive woman has always done it. Dr. Nordell was in the Pacific and he said the women there, why, they were never separated from their babies. They kept them slung on their backs for the first two years of their lives. He said it was wonderful for the baby. He said if he had his way, all of his mothers would do that. You would carry them on your back while you were doing housework and when it got hungry, you would swing it around and feed it, and swing it back again. He says it gives the baby a wonderful feeling of security.”
Father’s Little Dividend 5/12 (1951) (Clip beginning at 3:40)
carol | December 31, 2009
carol | December 31, 2009
Quoting the boy, in the movie, About A Boy, “There were people out there who had a good time in life. I was beginning to realize, I wasn’t one of them. I just didn’t fit. I didn’t fit at my old school. I definitely didn’t fit at my new one. I heard that some kids got taught by their parents at home. But Mom couldn’t do that unless I paid her to teach me, because it was just her and me and she had to work… So basically, I had to go to school…”
Badly Drawn Boy – A Minor Incident
A Minor Incident
There’s nothing I could say
To make you try to feel ok
And nothing you could do
To stop me feeling the way I do
And if the chance should happen
That I never see you again
Just remember that I’ll always love youI’d be a better person
On the other side I’m sure
You’d find a way to help yourself
And find another door
To shrug off minor incidents
And make us both feel proud
I just wish I could be there
To see you throughYou always were the one
To make us stand out in a crowd
Though every once upon a while
Your head was in the cloud
There’s nothing you could never do
To ever let me down
And remember that I’ll always love you
carol | December 30, 2009
Mom, Baby Revived After Dying During Birth
http://www.wsbtv.com/family/22084676/detail.html
carol | December 28, 2009
Derek makes fun of me for something that is frequently in the sitcom, “The Middle”, and also in the movie, “The Blind Side.” It goes along the lines, “Children, thank your mother for going to town to bring home supper for you.” Well, I tell YOU, I am thankful I don’t have to cook all the time and can bring home pizza or a bag of burgers. It’s a luxury for which I am truly grateful. Home cooked meals are sometimes a complete waste of time and energy. So there. 
carol | December 28, 2009
And about 34 posts!! If you can only see some of the photos it is because you aren’t registered. Almost all of the pictures with my children facing the camera are not public. When I changed my website last month, the usernames were accidentally deleted. If you want to read my private posts, please send me your original username, and I will give you a temporary password that you can change. If you were never registered, and would like to be, please send me information about yourself and your family. 
Anyway, I am now up to date with my pictures. Yay!
carol | December 28, 2009
On the gift tag, she wrote that it was his “Christmas Sweater
If you want your own Sackboy, you could pay Nana $1000 or try to make one with this pattern:
http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00686/SKM49_2__proj_sackb_686954a.pdf
carol | December 28, 2009
C8 and L5 decorating the little ceramic tree from Grammy G.
The Fisher-Price Nativity Scene
Our Teddy Bear Christmas Tree
This year, I surprised the children with their own trees for their rooms.
The pink is for C8 of course.
B11 and L5 have the blue one in their room.
The little trees add a new tradition.
carol | December 28, 2009
Early one morning, I woke to find our cat watching the moon on the river. This picture does not do it justice because the flash shows the inside which was dark, but the outside was truly breathtaking. No wonder Pippin loved staring at it.
(I took several pics and combined two to get the best idea.)
Pippin (will be 4 in March)
Gem (will be 11 in February)
carol | December 28, 2009
I love when a movie has a positive pro-life message. I captured this screenshot of the three baby dinosaurs before they were born.
carol | December 26, 2009
I only posted pictures up to the end of August 2009, so I thought I might catch up a little. Most of the posts will be private, but I will publicly post some of the pictures of the children with their backs to the camera, as well as scenery.
carol | December 24, 2009
Are you struggling with trying to do better as a parent, yet still failing on a continual basis? You are not alone. We continue to sin and fail, yet we continue to be forgiven.
Read this passage from Romans with your own self in mind, and then again from the perspective of your child. Paul shared our struggles.
“We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.”
“So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!”
“So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.”
Romans 7:14-25
“There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.”
Romans 8:1“In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.”
Ephesians 1:7
Repent and you are forgiven!!!! Do you realize the significance of this good news??!! Since we regularly forget this truth in our own lives, it is understandable when we forget to treat our children with grace. Rest and find joy in the freedom of HIS GRACE!!!!!!! Take some pressure off yourself as a parent as you begin the new year. Take some pressure off your children.
carol | December 24, 2009
Another Woman Dies of Hormonal Contraceptive in Switzerland
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/dec/09122308.html
“The Swiss Federation of Service to Patients… has called for a ban on a particular type of contraceptive pill after it was linked to the death last month of a 17-year-old German girl who died in a Swiss hospital.”
Study Finds Half of Women on “Birth Control Shot” Suffer Bone Problems
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/dec/09122105.html
“Nearly half of women using… the birth control shot, will experience high bone mineral density (BMD) loss in the hip or lower spine within two years of beginning the contraceptive…”
