PARENTING FREEDOM

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    "Before becoming a mother I had a hundred theories
    on how to bring up children.
    Now I have seven children and only one theory:
    Love them, especially when they least deserve to be loved."
    Kate Samperi

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    • Vatican’s chief exorcist

    carol | March 10, 2010

    Chief exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth
    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7056689.ece

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    Mother and Baby Second Chance at Life

    carol | December 30, 2009

    Mom, Baby Revived After Dying During Birth
    http://www.wsbtv.com/family/22084676/detail.html

    Category: Out of this World, Parenting Pregnancy | No Comments »
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    Pippin and Gem

    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)

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    Humbling and Terrifying

    carol | December 18, 2009

    The Known Universe by AMNH

    “He stretches out the north over empty space;
    He hangs the earth on nothing.”
    Job 26:7

    “If heaven above can be measured,
    And the foundations of the earth searched out beneath,
    I will also cast off all the seed of Israel
    For all that they have done, says the LORD.”
    Jeremiah 31:37

    “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
    Genesis 1:1

    “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.”
    John 1:1-5

    CREATOR OF THE WORLD, TO THEE
    http://nethymnal.org/htm/c/o/w/cow2thee.htm

    Creator of the world, to Thee
    And endless rest of joy belongs;
    And heavenly choirs are ever free
    To sing on high their festal songs.

    But we are fallen creatures here,
    Where pain and sorrow daily come;
    And how can we in exile drear
    Sing out, as they, sweet songs of Home?

    O Father, who dost promise still
    That they who mourn shall blessèd be,
    Grant us to weep for deeds of ill
    That banish us so long from Thee.

    But weeping, grant us faith to rest
    In hope upon Thy loving care;
    Till Thou restore us, with the blest,
    Their songs of praise in Heav’n to share.

    To Father, Son and Holy Ghost,
    The God Whom Heav’n and earth adore,
    From men and from the angel host
    Be praise and glory evermore.

    Category: Christianity, Depression, Homeschooling Academics, Music, Out of this World, Quotes | No Comments »
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    Colonel’s wife has baby when he was on space shuttle

    carol | December 18, 2009

    Houston, We Have a Baby

    Category: Out of this World, Parenting Pregnancy | No Comments »
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    More for the "Out of this World" Category

    carol | November 14, 2009

    Vatican looks to heavens for signs of alien life
    http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hf92aHEwYT87J1XPP4JrIusKBT-AD9BSTO1G1

    $79m Nasa blast finds enough water for man on Moon to have bath
    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/space/article6916297.ece

    Haven’t watched it yet, but “V” looks good:
    V – anyone watching the new political scifi series? UPDATED
    http://mommylife.net/archives/2009/11/v_-_anyone_watc.html

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    One-of-a-Kind

    carol | November 6, 2009

    I knew I was different. After being active on the web for about the past ten years, I realize I am more unique than I thought. ;-) Funny about that.

    Category: Journal 2009, Out of this World, Website | 8 Comments »
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    I want to believe.

    carol | November 2, 2009

    I saw UFO beam up a buffalo
    http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2708680/I-saw-UFO-beam-up-a-buffalo.html?OTC-RSS&ATTR=News

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    Baby Woolly Mammoth

    carol | October 10, 2009

    Ice, Ice Baby: Perfectly Frozen Mammoth
    http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Frozen-Woolly-Mammoth-Lyuba-Heads-To-Chicago-For-Exhibit-In-Field-Museum/Article/200910115399522?f=rss

    “A baby woolly mammoth, frozen in soil for 40,000 years in Siberia, was so well preserved that traces of her mother’s milk were still in her stomach.”

    Category: Out of this World, Parenting Breastfeeding | 1 Comment »
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    Water on the Moon

    carol | September 23, 2009

    India’s lunar mission finds evidence of water on the Moon
    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/space/article6846639.ece

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    UFO

    carol | September 8, 2009

    UFO ‘filmed for 40 minutes’ by Chinese scientists during solar eclipse
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1211715/UFO-filmed-40-minutes-Chinese-scientists-prepare-study-footage-year-hopes-proving-alone.html?ITO=1490#ixzz0QWcnP4gP

    Edited to add:
    Fighter Pilot Flies Alongside ‘UFO’
    http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2627236/Fighter-pilot-flies-alongside-UFO.html?OTC-RSS&ATTR=News

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    "I knew you would be a good daddy, that's why I picked you."

    carol | August 29, 2009

    Reincarnated! Our son is a World War II pilot come back to life
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1209795/Reincarnated-Our-son-World-War-II-pilot-come-life.html?ITO=1490#ixzz0PazjBPTC

    “A lifelong Christian, it was not the answer he had sought for his son’s behaviour…”

    “As the nightmares continued, she asked him: ‘Who is the little man?’”
    “‘Me,’ he answered. His father asked: ‘What happened to your plane?’”
    “James replied: ‘It crashed on fire.’”
    “‘Why did your plane crash?’”
    “‘It got shot,’ he said.”
    “‘Who shot your plane?’”
    “James made a disgusted face. ‘The Japanese!’ he said, with indignation…”

    “Next, little James unnerved his father by telling him: ‘I knew you would be a good daddy, that’s why I picked you.’”
    “‘Where did you find us?’ asked a shaken Bruce.”
    “‘In Hawaii, at the pink hotel, on the beach,’ he replied. Eerily, he described his parents’ fifth wedding anniversary – five weeks before Andrea got pregnant – saying it was when he ‘chose’ them to bring him back into the world.”

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    Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego Factor

    carol | August 24, 2009

    Ghostly Companions
    Survivors of extreme situations—on Everest and elsewhere—credit the help of a ‘third man’ who is not there.
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204884404574361631588827614.html?mod=rss_opinion_main

    “In ‘The Third Man Factor,’ John Geiger, a fellow at the University of Toronto, presents many accounts of such experiences, and not only from climbers. Among those who have felt a ghostly companionship he cites Charles Lindbergh on his solo flight across the ­Atlantic in 1927 and the last man to walk out of the South Tower of the World Trade ­Center before it ­collapsed on 9/11. ‘Over the years,’ Mr. Geiger writes, “the ­experience has ­occurred again and again, not only to 9/11 survivors, mountaineers, and ­divers, but also to ­polar explorers, ­prisoners of war, solo sailors, shipwreck ­survivors, aviators, and ­astronauts. All have ­escaped ­traumatic events only to tell strikingly similar stories of having experienced the close presence of a companion and helper.’”

    Reminds me of this Bible story:

    “Then King Nebuchadnezzar leaped to his feet in amazement and asked his advisers, ‘Weren’t there three men that we tied up and threw into the fire?’ They replied, ‘Certainly, O king.’ He said, ‘Look! I see four men walking around in the fire, unbound and unharmed, and the fourth looks like a son of the gods.’”

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    Awesome! "The human body literally glows"

    carol | August 15, 2009

    Strange! Humans Glow in Visible Light
    http://www.livescience.com/health/090722-body-glow.html

    “The human body literally glows, emitting a visible light in extremely small quantities at levels that rise and fall with the day, scientists now reveal.”

    “Past research has shown that the body emits visible light, 1,000 times less intense than the levels to which our naked eyes are sensitive. In fact, virtually all living creatures emit very weak light, which is thought to be a byproduct of biochemical reactions involving free radicals.”

    “(This visible light differs from the infrared radiation — an invisible form of light — that comes from body heat.)”

    “The researchers found the body glow rose and fell over the day, with its lowest point at 10 a.m. and its peak at 4 p.m., dropping gradually after that. These findings suggest there is light emission linked to our body clocks, most likely due to how our metabolic rhythms fluctuate over the course of the day.”

    “Faces glowed more than the rest of the body…”

    Imaging of Ultraweak Spontaneous Photon Emission from Human Body Displaying Diurnal Rhythm
    http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=19606225

    Hat Tip: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/08/15/Your-Body-Literally-Glows-With-Light.aspx

    This reminds me of an interesting conversation with my 15 year-old yesterday about the fact that energy cannot be created nor destroyed and what happens when we die.

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    Favorite T.V. Show Right Now: Ghostly Encounters

    carol | July 25, 2009

    http://www.ghostlyencounters.ca/

    Sample shows:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8M8DEPlwlA
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPa2NxvpsBI
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImhaFXXY48A

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kt_EbtLB64

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