So emotional.

I truely beleive that being a parent makes you more emotional. I am sitting here watching “Deal or No Deal” and they have a marine in Faluja via satalite playing the game with his wife. His parents are there too and they just gave them a chance to talk to him. Everyone was crying and…

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We Went to a Breastfeeding Rally Today!

Today I put my nummies where my mouth is and me and the girls went to a breastfeeding rally to support State Senator Connie Williams and her proposed breastfeeding legislation in the state of Pennsylvania. It was a great time and there were several news agencies there. The one statistic that she quoted amazed me…

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Lost – The Pearl Hatch

Ok so in last nights episode of lost Locke and Echo found another hatch, the pearl hatch. In the hatch they found an orientation film which at the end mentioned the “(Apollo) ferry” I’m not sure if that was the exact name so I did searches for a Paulo Ferry etc… I found an Apollo…

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Painting again

In our new house our attic is very large and would lend itself well to painting. Sage is getting older and can nurse less frequently and my mind has been turning to painting again. I have always been facinated by various forms of fertility figures across many cultures. Maybe it’s because they are usualy chubby,…

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A great place to buy hand made crafts, jewlery and art!

I just found this place called Etsy. It’s a place where people who have made things; paintings, toys, jewlery, clothes etc… can sell them. It’s tagline is “Etsy – Your place to buy and sell all things handmade” With my art background I am always looking for hand made things to buy and places to…

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Getting back into the habit

Alright, I need to get back in the habit of updating this thing. Things are well. We finaly have our washing machine/sink drain in the basment fixed and can do wash agian but now our washer’s leaking. Will cleaned off the roof so we no longer have stuff growing on it and I have a…

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It’s been way too long….

since I wrote here. Since I last wrote lots of things have happened, a friends baby has been born, a parent has become engaged, potty training is occuring, crawling and climbing are Olympic sports at my house, old friends have contacted me…. lots of things. Oddly enough though I just don’t have or feel like…

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Honor Killings

There was a report on NPR the other day that made me literally sick to my stomach.  There are tribes in Iraq that practice "honor killings".  The men of the family can kill a woman if she has disgraced the family.  In the story they talk about a 16 year old girl who was kidnapped. …

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