Here’s A Snory About A Mouse.

Okay, I haven’t been posting on weeks because I’ve been burnt out on blogging and too busy in life.

However, this video is just too cute and has to be passed on.

It’s a dormouse sleeping, while being held, and snoring away!

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- In an effort to make sure I’m not accidently plagarizing or stealing anyone’s work online, I’m going to be doing my level best to “footnote” where I get particular videos, snippets and photos.

The video is of course from Youtube, posted by thamesditton46.  The video originated from/for Surrey Wildlife Trust.

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Nuby Sippy Cup: Horrible Product

Having a blog enables me to voice my opinion in a rather direct manner instead of perhaps being buried on some site full of reviews – though I’ll no doubt give a review of the product on several major sites as well.

We have several children, a couple that are transitioning from bottle to sippy cups.  We have owned a variety of sippy cups over the years from various manufacturers.  Bar none, the Nuby 8 oz. No Spill Cup With Super Spout sippy cup is one of if not the worst products we’ve bought – and we’ve bought some products that turned out to be duds…

The babies love the feel of the cup.  It gives and feels like the nipple of a baby bottle; and considering the design it looks promising.  Promising is about as far as it goes.

The thing leaks.  We bought a two pack and both of them leaked.  So, we returned them to the store thinking it a fluke and got another set.  They leak too.  So, it’s not a fluke.  It’s poor design.  It leaks where the “gasket” meets the cup.

Nothing quite annoying and exasperating like trying to give your babies some milk, only to have the thing leak, and realize these cups are the only useable sippy cups you presently have.

We purchased ours at Target.  I’m unaware of where else this product might be purchased.  This was our first time purchasing Nuby products and will probably be our last, even if some of their other products actually do work as the manufacturer claims.

So, from a family with multiple kids and has bought and been given multiple brands of sippy cups, we do not recommend buying or using this Nuby sippy cup.

If you have some good brand and style of sippy cups to recommend, please feel free to pass along the information.  Thanks.

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Be Thankful: You Are A Miracle.

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Happy Thanksgiving Folks.

Today is Thanksgiving, a day set aside to give thanks, to be thankful for all that we are and have been blessed with.

Hopefully you realize that everything you have, especially everything you are, is due to God.  You are God’s workmanship.  You were and are God’s creation from the moment two haploid cells became one complete, diploid cell -fertilization/conception

Are you thankful for your life?  Not your station or trappings of life, but being alive…

You are a miracle.  Have you ever realized this?  Have you ever stopped to think about this?

Pop A Pill And Erase Your Baby Troubles Away?

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I’ve noted previously how a local life sanctifying (pro-life) organization is doing its best to offer a positive alternative to Planned Parenthood and abortions, even offering quiet “competition” right across the street from an abortion facility (when this occurred, the facility began to reschedule clients so that they would not come when the pro-life mobile unit was present).

Due to Roe v. Wade and other laws and regulations, it’s quite impossible to make abortion completely illegal.  However, with prayer and action, there are other methods such as education and support.  Just because something is legal doesn’t mean you need to use/do it.  By offering alternatives, we’re seeing a gradual reduction occurring in places that are performing abortions.  Whereas there used to be at least seven clinics that performed abortions in Missouri, there is now only one – maybe two.

While we will no doubt continue to see a reduction in medical/physically performed abortions, I suspect that we will instead see increased usage of pharmaceutical abortions.  As more women use the “abortion pill” to kill their unborn child, I’m unsure if viable statistics will continue to be available to keep count of abortions.

And so we need to continue to offer alternative education and more importantly, support for these women, meeting their needs where they are.

Thus, the topic of this article concerns the “abortion pill”.  It’s often called RU-486 but the real name is Mifeprex or Mifepristone.  Yes, it’s intended purpose is to abort an unborn human, but how does it work and how does the mother’s body react to the drug?

Thrive vs. Planned Parenthood St. Louis.

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Recently our church invited someone from Thrive St. Louis to come and speak.  Following the service, congregants were encouraged to check out Thrive’s new mobile unit.

What is Thrive you ask?  A faith based, life-affirming organization (pro-life if you will) that is basically a conservative/Christian version of Planned Parenthood.  They’re not just about making sure troubled mothers have their babies.  Thrive takes and provides a holistic approach from education to assistance.  Thrive is part of a number of pro-life organizations that aren’t just anti-abortion (which is how the left generally and erroneously views the pro-life movement).

What is this mobile unit?  Basically a clinic on wheels that will enable Thrive to reach many areas of St. Louis which don’t have easy access or education about life, sex, pregnancy, options and help.

Is This Gingrich’s Turn?

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It’s two months until the Republican primaries begin and almost a year until the Presidential elections.

In other words, this is crunch time.  Whether there is any true “consolidation” of the candidates among voters right now or not, there will be pretty much by the end of January or beginning of February.

There are four primaries that occur in January.  Usually after the first one, those lagging the whole time in the polls automatically drop out – certainly by the end of the month.  By the time the primaries in Missouri and Louisiana occur – the middle and end of March respectively – the field is set and by April, it’s pretty much known who the candidate will be.

In 2008, by the end of January there were three candidates – four if you count Ron Paul – that were in the thick of a real race.  Huckabee, McCain and Romney.

As it stands right now, after hearing about what’s going on in the news cycles, it seems evident that the three contenders going into January will be Rick Perry, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, with Ron Paul tagging along.

What of Herman Cain you say?

A Pumpkin Gets Squirrel’d

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So this is a day-after Halloween post.  I probably should have tried to post it yesterday, but, whatever…

So, anyhow, while we haven’t given out candy for the last couple of years, our eldest child still likes the idea of carving a pumpkin – though I do the hard part.  Our sole stipulation is that it cannot be a scary pumpkin.  We don’t do fancy stencils or have fancy, slim knives.

This year, as Angry Birds is all the rage – yes, even this house has gotten addicted to it – it was decided to make an Angry Bird pumpkin.

All was well until about an hour or so after I’d set it outside…

Obama’s Student Loan Ploy – And A Story…

As someone who espouses fiscal conservatism, what I’m going to discuss will certainly come off as wholly contradictory to my stated beliefs. I’m going to tell a story and I have some compassion and understanding for the quandary this couple finds themselves in, more so since they consider themselves conservatives for smaller government.

Imagine that a couple has applied for the student loan payment adjustment program for their two student loans…

From what The Atlantic and Hot Air assert, this really won’t help out their household bottom line much – less than $10 a month. After reading both articles, I still don’t fully understand how they’re coming to this conclusion except perhaps in long-term results. Perhaps it’s also determined by household, because in this situation, the couple stands to “save” over $200 a month.

I use that term “save” loosely because these people are also fully aware that the debt hasn’t been reduced, only the monthly payments – and that, only for a year. In reality, they’re not saving anything, rather, potentially making matters worse for themselves. Why?

The $10 issue is irrelevant.

Still Here Singing Maranatha!

I had completely forgotten that today is October 21st, the back up date from this past May that Mr. Harold Camping said would be the end of the world.

Of course, now all the attention is going to be focused on December 2012.

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Christ will return one day however and we can see signs and figure out a general time frame, but not the exact time.  So keep looking up as you work and pray.  We are not promised tomorrow, but neither should we live our lives focusing/hoping solely to see Christ’s return.

Of course, people will go looking for the next Camping, some to ridicule and poke fun, others with ignorant hope.  People never stop looking for answers and never stop listening to false prophets.

My one hope is that the many people who put faith and money into Harold’s falsehoods haven’t left their faith in Christ.

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Woman! Know Thy Place!

Before I get tons of flak, I am not a chauvanist pig.

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My wife brought home an old steno pad from work someone was getting rid of – they have a “free” table, sort of like Freecycle without ads or driving.  Our children use up a lot of paper drawing and writing, so it looked worthwhile… then she flipped through it.

The pad is clearly from the 50′s or 60′s, not only for what’s inside it, but the clearly dated picture of a woman seated – it reminds me of images in my old cookbook that belonged to my grandmother.

Anyhow, for those interested, the pad is a ‘Universal Shorthand Notebook: 6in x 9in, 80 sheets.’, by Westab. No. 8692GC

At the bottom of the cover it says, “See the ‘Career Girls’ Guide to Office Etiquette‘ on Inside Page.”  That’s the kicker.  Not only is this pad old, it’s antiquated and outright politically incorrect!  It’s bound to be a hoot.