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Birth of a Butterfly

Birth of a Painted Lady Butterfly This is absolutely amazing. We had five caterpillars and four of them have transformed into butterflies. We’d missed everyone of them until this one. And I almost missed it. I didn’t get the chrysalis breaking open, but I started videoing right after it broke open. Click on the picture toContinue reading “Birth of a Butterfly”

Family is the answer

This is an article entitled: “Chicago working to prevent repeat of deadly weekend” Here’s the crux of the article: On Friday, Mayor Richard Daley took the unusual step of calling together more than two dozen officials from the police department, schools, social service agencies and religious groups for a City Hall summit on the violence.Continue reading “Family is the answer”

Expelled: The Movie

So I finally was able to see Expelled tonight! Thank you, Mom for giving us a date night. It was everything I was expecting. Ben Stein made the point that the Intelligent Design side of the debate has very good arguments and respected scientists behind it. Yet only Darwinism is given air time in academia, science organizations, media,Continue reading “Expelled: The Movie”

Accountability Update: Week 4

This week I did: horribly My mom told me not to blame it on her. So I won’t. But she has been here the whole week…coincidence? Just kidding! It’s my own fault I don’t have much self determination. I’m not even going to go down my list of things to do each week. I didn’tContinue reading “Accountability Update: Week 4”

What’s your yard sale philosophy?

Note to reader: I ask you to answer a question at the bottom of this post…so make it all the way down there…or just skip the gibberish and go straight to the question. Our neighborhood is having a huge yard sale this Saturday. Since we will be moving soon I am determined to part withContinue reading “What’s your yard sale philosophy?”

Role Reversal

As a woman I am fairly good about noticing things. The emergence of spring; the new freckles on my daughters; the five new miniscule wrinkles that have added themselves to the legions around my eyes. I kind of take pride in the fact that I’m pretty observant. And my husband usually relies on me toContinue reading “Role Reversal”