I sat in the hot tub way too long tonight...
I feel boiled.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Monday, March 16, 2009
Retaliation
Today my grapefruit squirted me in the eye...
What did I ever do to you grapefruit?
(except cut you up and eat you.....)
What did I ever do to you grapefruit?
(except cut you up and eat you.....)
Friday, February 20, 2009
apparently it was my birthday....
The funniest thing happened yesterday...I was sitting in one of the computer labs at school. I had been there for almost 8 hours straight, besides about an hour break, working on a computer assignment, when my phone rang...
the people on the other end proceeded to say "Rebecca?" and then without waiting for an answer, sang me happy birthday! When it was all over, i thanked them, but told them they unfortunately had the wrong number. It sounded like someone's granparents acutally, which was so cute and he said "well i guess you dont get that every day hey?" and i told them they had made my day.....which they did :)
whoever's birthday it is out there today, this is for you...
the people on the other end proceeded to say "Rebecca?" and then without waiting for an answer, sang me happy birthday! When it was all over, i thanked them, but told them they unfortunately had the wrong number. It sounded like someone's granparents acutally, which was so cute and he said "well i guess you dont get that every day hey?" and i told them they had made my day.....which they did :)
whoever's birthday it is out there today, this is for you...
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Salsa!
I totally thought of something today that I wanted to blog about and now it is in some little box in my brain and doesn't want to come out...so instead i will show you some pictures. My friend Kim came to visit from Seattle last weekend and we had a great time playing Wii, sitting in the hot tub, going to the ski hill, reading, eating....and making very tasty salsa!
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
You know you should wash your car when....
You also know you need to change your oil when the idling doesn't sound right and ....oops you can hardly see any on the dipstick!
Just about forgot!
I was just about to go to bed when i remembered...BLOG! Today I will muse on the story of the lady who just had octuplets. I just watched Dateline where they interviewed her pretty in depth....and she seems surprisingly...rational. There are so many debates you can have over this whole situation i'm not surprised the world is having a hay-day with it all. Children's rights is one of them for sure...how can she possibly take care of 14 children? How is it fair to her first 6 children to bring 8 more into the family...will they get enough attention, care, opportunity?
and yet....
people ask why she didn't selectively reduce her fetuses when she found out she was having 7 more.(the eighth was a surprise during the c-section) So I ask what about the rights of those babies? Do the rights of children outside the womb mean more than the rights of children inside the whom? I believe our world says they do. I say no. This woman went right to the embryo stage and said that each of them had a right to live, although she didn't know if they would, she left that up to God. This sort of sparks another debate....Yes her fertility doctor implanted 6 embryo's (there is controversy over what is the standard there of how many to implant) but two previous attmpts at implantation after her six children and before these eight had failed. This was the last time before she called it 'quits' and it happened not to fail.
Do these babies have purpose? yes
will life be easy for this family? no
Are these children loved? yes
Does all of the criticism and attack on her help her in ANY way? no i don't think so
It sounded as if she was conflicted...definitely as a young person, wanting children, struggling with reproductive issues, a failed marriage, disability, deciding to have IVF while still in school....maybe not the best decision, but some people just want to be mom's and that's ok....
I guess there are people that plan to bring babies into this world, and there are babies that are born that aren't planned...
God says 'love your neighbour' and 'feed, clothe and house the needy'...i would say this means people in our own continent as well as around the world.
and yet....
people ask why she didn't selectively reduce her fetuses when she found out she was having 7 more.(the eighth was a surprise during the c-section) So I ask what about the rights of those babies? Do the rights of children outside the womb mean more than the rights of children inside the whom? I believe our world says they do. I say no. This woman went right to the embryo stage and said that each of them had a right to live, although she didn't know if they would, she left that up to God. This sort of sparks another debate....Yes her fertility doctor implanted 6 embryo's (there is controversy over what is the standard there of how many to implant) but two previous attmpts at implantation after her six children and before these eight had failed. This was the last time before she called it 'quits' and it happened not to fail.
Do these babies have purpose? yes
will life be easy for this family? no
Are these children loved? yes
Does all of the criticism and attack on her help her in ANY way? no i don't think so
It sounded as if she was conflicted...definitely as a young person, wanting children, struggling with reproductive issues, a failed marriage, disability, deciding to have IVF while still in school....maybe not the best decision, but some people just want to be mom's and that's ok....
I guess there are people that plan to bring babies into this world, and there are babies that are born that aren't planned...
God says 'love your neighbour' and 'feed, clothe and house the needy'...i would say this means people in our own continent as well as around the world.
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