If you wanted to know

I may or may not start a blog in the distant future.

If you want to follow me when I start it up again, just e-mail me and I might remember to include you. ; )

Thanks,

~B

If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It. Part One.

This article is from Spunkyhomeschool.blogspot.com.

The beginning of this article reminds me of the delicate eco-system that is around us all, ie: population imbalance and that is how it applies to the "Feral Cat" article above.

The saddest is the second part of this article and how the world "values" virginity (selling it on e-bay), but they don't really "value" it for what it's really worth. If only people realized the preciousness of it all....

~B

Oops!

http://spunkyhomeschool.blogspot.com/2009/01/oops.html

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Carl Djerassi, the Austrian chemist who helped develop the earliest form of oral contraceptive, now laments the "demographic catastrophe" the pill has brought upon society.

Djerassi outlined the "horror scenario" that occurred because of the population imbalance, for which his invention was partly to blame. He said that in most of Europe there was now "no connection at all between sexuality and reproduction."

No kidding. The recent story of a 22 year old woman willing to auction her away her virginity to the highest bidder (current bid $5 million) demonstrates just how far we've fallen.

At least this woman understood the monetary value wealthy businessmen place on her purity. Others young people are willing to just give it away. A recent conversation with a young woman reared in a conservative Christian home alerted me to the reality that, to many young people, "hooking up" has nothing to do with marriage, a committed relationship, or even millions of dollars -- it's "free entertainment" in a world where being entertained is what life is all about.

It's not just personal purity that has fallen out of fashion because of the pill, but the notion that children are a blessing to a married couple whose vision for their family extends beyond the next promotion, the new car, and the two children they "can afford."

A few years ago, I met the wife of a wealthy executive at a Detroit Tigers baseball game. After being told that I had six children, she exclaimed, "I could never afford to have that many children!"

To which I quickly responded, "I can't afford not to." Not because we're independently wealthy, we're not. But because we understand and accept the idea children are a gift from the Lord and blessed is the man whose home is full of children.

I'm glad to know that Djerassi regrets his participation in the creation of the pill. However, the invention of the pill didn't create the problem, it merely allowed people who refused to restrain themselves a way to act upon their impulses without immediate consequences. In a moral society where purity and children are valued, there would be no price high enough to permit a young lady to sell her virginity and no market for the pill.

Article by Spunkyhomeschool.blogspot.com

Blogs

Just a reminder: Here are my two favorite "MommyBlogs":
mommylife.net
and
spunkyhomeschool.blogspot.com

Thanks!

~B

Eyes of Wonder~~Amazing Blog

I have just found one of the most peaceful, beautiful, amazing blogs.

It's called:"Eyes of Wonder".

It is full of gorgeous photos of family life; the mom talks so positively about her family and so lovingly about life. It's inspires me when I read it,and it makes me take life a little slower and enjoy my family more.

Check this blog out, especially if you are a woman.

~B

Loneliness

A friend posted, "Playing Marco Polo By Myself".

It speaks of loneliness and feeling uncared for and unwanted.

I think in everyone's life, there are moments, periods where we all feel this way. We feel like no one really cares, no one really notices. No one is there.

I have felt the same as her very often. What difference do I really make? When I speak to someone does it really matter? Why does it feel like no one is really listening?

On the "To Nineveh" blog, she writes: "Lonely is hearing a friend ask how you're doing...and then hearing the "multitasking pause" between your comment and their response."

I have felt that same way. I just have never heard of it in written form, so eloquently told.

I believe that we are all too busy. Too busy for stopping and really asking a friend how they are. Too busy to think that someone else would care enough to really hear of how you're feeling. Life is just too, too busy.

There are computers, tv's, cell phones, i-pods and so much more to distract us from really caring about one another. The care is probably there, just, well, we're too busy.

We need to start a movement. "Slow down to care."

When you notice that your friend needs to talk, or needs to just sit with you and feel loved without any words, take that time to do that.

I am of the mind set that I would love to sit and listen to my friends tell me how they are struggling and to just let them sit and talk, or be quiet. BUT, I also don't feel like anyone would want to listen to me talking about something that I struggle with. Why is that?

One thing that I know for sure though is, that until we meet Him, there will always be a deep longing and loneliness in our hearts. We can help one another, we can hold each other's hands and help each other through these dark times of abandonment and just let the other know that we sometimes feel the same way too and that they are loved.

So very loved.

~B
[Your name here], you are loved, don't forget it.

To Blog or Not to Blog

I have often toyed with the idea of creating a blog that no one knows that I am using. I don't know what it is about this time of year. I always want to go "incognito".....

Also, I just hate how melancholy I sound when I actually do read my blog and I pity the few readers out there that I do have. I just really identify with my melancholy self, and I do my best writing when I am pondering things, but I feel like I make people sigh and say, "Oh, she's up to this again." So I hesitate to write so very often.

When I first started out on my original blog: SgF, I was always so free, not caring or even thinking that other people were reading it. Then something happened with one of my posts after I had been writing for over a year, where a person had read something that I had shared and then they asked me about it. It all of a sudden pulled the curtain out of my "blog life" and I realized that there were other people that were actually READING it and standing there staring. I mean, I knew that "bloggers" were reading it, but I didn't take the brain space to realize that "real people" were reading it, people that might have figured out who I was. People that could be actual family.

But then somehow, somewhere I lost myself. I am such a good writer when I want to be, I can share things so eloquently when I am not feeling like anyone is watching. But things happened and then I got really insecure and I was just too scared to put my little toe out there and do it ever again.

Dare I start again? Can people deal with an overly melodramatic and melancholy woman talking about her worries, her children, her pain? It all seems way too..... open. I don't really have any struggles, or any good information for people, it's just all about me and my small little life. There are bloggers out there like: Barbara Curtis with her Mommylife.net, and the "Especially Heather" blog, who is a young mother battling brain cancer. THEY have things to share and teach, I really have nothing to offer here, like they do.

The bloggers that I enjoy are ones that share their TRUE views and their TRUE struggles, but yet, they aren't down or depressed or melancholy (eh-hem, like how I tend to be when I blog) ;-).

So can I do it? Can I bare my soul without feeling all that fear? Can I start again?

I'll have to see. Courage takes a long time to gather.

~B

The Baby Boutique

Click on either of these banners to take you to my internet friend's new Baby Boutique Store.
I have done business with her before, so you can trust her all the way!
~B

Mommy Life

This is Barbara Curtis.
She is the blogger for Mommylife.
If you haven't yet, check it out.

~B