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I got myself into yet another abortion debate (I must learn to stay clear of these things, they take up too much of my time and nothing gets done in the house.) Someone made this comment, and I was reminded of the following story: Because having a kid and dumping it in an orphanage is soo much cooler than an abortion... I'm rolling my eyes right now. The Butterfly: No one will dispute that butterflies are beautiful creatures. As we all know, this insect goes through a number of metamorphic changes before becoming a butterfly. It starts off life as an egg before hatching into a larva. Interestingly enough, during this stage, it is not the beautiful insect we see flying around in gardens pollinating flowers. Instead, the butterfly's larva is considered as a pest that destroys plants. Then the larva metamorphoses into a cocoon, laying dormant for a period of time. Later, we would see a small hole from within the cocoon where a butterfly would emerge. This process of exiting the c...

Here's a photo worth a million words. It says a lot about me. Ironically, I will now add some comments, because not everything may be immediately obvious. * I did not want to buy this shirt . It was a sacrifice, for Lent. Because at Lent you are supposed to give up things, and/or make charitable donations. So I gave up money and I donated to Feminists for Life. It's not my fault they sent me this lovely T-Shirt in return. * I am a feminist. Albeit a moderate one. And I am pro-life. And no, this is not an oxymoron. Check it out here . * I am a homemaker. Look at me in the place I spend the most time (besides in front of the computer- ha ha), the kitchen. A messy kitchen by the way, because 1. cleaning is not my number one priority and 2. I always seem to have a bunch of things going on at the same time. * I'm an artist. Check out the pinata in the making behind me. Also, the angle of the shot in this picture (self-posed, in case you couldn't tell, hah!) * I...

The subject of birthdays just came up, re: the dates of the birthdays of people in our household. Then Gabriel wanted to know: How many times has Papa been born? Hmmmmm.

It was never my intention to turn my blog into some kind of political thing, but sometimes a person gets pulled into things she doesn't want to be pulled into (thanks a lot Suzanne!! ) and the blog takes on a life of it own. So now I am not just content with a little banner on the side proclaiming that I am pro-life, I have to post articles every other day about it as well. If you, the reader are not politically inclined I apologize for my politically incorrectness, (no I don't) and if you are pro-choice I am deeply sorry that we do not share the same point of view, but what can I say? When a woman has no other outlet for her convictions, (which she does not share with her husband, or rather he does not share with her) they tend to need some outlet... hence the blog is born. (Which he is aware of, but likely does not read because it full of all that, you know, religious stuff, and things...) I have to admit though, that this group, feminists for life, have a refreshing tak...

I'm posting links because blogger keeps giving me an error message. Apparently my html is not closed. I see nothing wrong with it myself, but whatever... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJX2JdNc-Lo

Le tombeau de la famille de Jésus Table ronde avec Louis Painchaud Paul-Hubert Poirier Anne Pasquier Guy Bonneau Professeurs à la Faculté de théologie et de sciences religieuses de l’Université Laval Animateur, Yves Houde, Radio Galilée Mardi 27 mars 2007 12h à 14h Université Laval Pavillon Alphonse-Desjardins, Agora Louis Painchaud, directeur de l’édition de la Bibliothèque copte de Nag Hammadi, du Groupe de recherche sur le christianisme et l’antiquité tardive (GRECAT) et membre de l’Institut d’études anciennes, vous entretiendra de la découverte de Talpiot en 1980; de la publication du catalogue des inscriptions des ossuaires (Rahmani 1994); du documentaire de la BBC en 1996; du documentaire de Discovery Channel en 2007 : contenu, auteurs, consultants. Paul-Hubert Poirier, professeur d’histoire du christianisme et membre de l’Institut d’études anciennes, présentera les ossuaires juifs; les inscriptions; déchiffrage et statistique. Anne Pasquier, professeure d’histoire du christianis...

Let's start with the easy question: who am I not voting for? The Liberals. So who is left? The Parti Quebecois, l'Action Démocratique du Québec, The Green Party, and Québec Solidaire. Back when Jean-Alexandre was still a baby, before I had met Marc (I remember this because I remember flirting with some guy on a drive home from a meeting - nothing came of it, I never saw the guy again.) I was a member of l'Action Démocratique. I thought they had different, interesting ideas, that might just work. I still think they have interesting ideas, but I'm not so sure about how well they will work. (as some guy, fed up with both the liberals and the PQ and quoted in the newspaper today said, "Their ideas are bad, but at least they have ideas." Ha ha.) I think some of those ideas may work better than others. I also think that a lot of the criticism comes from people afraid to venture. I think perhaps we should give them a chance, and if they fail, well it's ...

Contrary to most Northern Canadians, I have never liked hockey much. (Except maybe when Wayne Gretzky was playing.) But thanks to a childhood friend, I have always enjoyed soccer. Unfortunately, when you live in a Northern town, you don't get to play soccer much. So I played a lot of basketball instead, which is just as much fun. But now that soccer is fast becoming one of the (if not the) most popular sports among Canadian Youth, and its popularity is increasing among the parents of said youth, and I actually live in a community where there is a soccer stadium, where you can actually play soccer even in winter... I get to play real organised soccer. With actual rules and referees. Last week, I finally got my first pair of real soccer shoes. Interior ones, with the mini rubber cleats that won't tear up the artificial turf, but keep you from sliding off to one side when you want to turn quickly. Tonight was the first chance I had to try them out, and now I wonder why I di...

It's not that the satellite phone hasn't been up and running, the real reason why I haven't posted here in awhile is that basically things have been going well, and nothing extraordinary has happened. It's like they say, no news is good news. Or like Tolstoy said about all happy families being the same and unhappy families having the ineresting stories... or something like that. Unless you count that I have moved my hut halfway up the volcano. I found a level spot on higher ground that would accomodate a hut and moved there instead. The monkeys don't hang around there so much and there is a waterfall nearby. It is just above the abandonned monastery. I still come to the beach. I have to fish for food sometimes. But the wind doesn't blow so hard in the new hut, and the rain doesn't get in like before.

Check out my new (to me) soccer shoes. I bought them used, (by a good player apparently, so hopefully some of the "good player vibe" will wear off on me) and I can't wait to try them out on the turf.

For cool merchandise showing support for women and children in the world check this site out: Feminists for Life's Covetable Stuff I think I may just have to get myself this:

Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell by Cat Clark In 1849 Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) became the first woman to receive a medical degree from an American medical school, and in 1859 became the first woman on the British medical register. She was ardently anti-abortion and pro-woman, choosing to enter the field of medicine partly because she was repulsed that the term “female physician” was applied to abortionists. Born in Bristol, England, Blackwell moved with her family to the United States at the age of eleven. The Blackwell family was very active in the movements to abolish slavery and enfranchise women; Elizabeth’s sisters-in-law included suffragists Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown Blackwell, and she was a friend to abolitionist novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe. Initially repulsed by the idea, more than one event contributed to Blackwell’s entering the medical profession. “The idea of winning a doctor’s degree,” she wrote, ...

It has been scientifically proven that if we drink 1 liter of water each day, at the end of the year we would have absorbed more than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria found in feces. In other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of Poop. However, we do not run that risk when drinking wine (or rum, whiskey, beer or other liquor) because alcohol has to go through a purification process of boiling, filtering and/or fermenting. WATER = Poop WINE = HEALTH Therefore: It is better to drink wine and talk stupid than to drink water and be full of crap. There is no need to thank me for this valuable information; I am doing it as a public service. * disclaimer: I did not write this, it came in an e-mail from my husband...

March 8, 1997 Marc h 8, 2007 We went to a very nice restaurant, and then rented a movie to watch at home. Jean-Alexandre babysat, and watched the movie with us. He also took the picture. We both look a lot more tired than we used to. Gee, I wonder why?

See? Even just my face apparently looks more masculine than feminine!!! I tried it with three different photos, and I still look like more guys than girls. http://www.myheritage.com http://www.myheritage.com http://www.myheritage.com

Angelina Jolie to Adopt Vietnamese Child You know, I'm not a fan of Brangelina, and I don't peruse the star magazines each month to find out more about them, but I do find it interesting that they (I will give them the benefit of the doubt) love children enough to take advantage of the fact that they are well off to adopt kids who otherwise would have no family and a poor quality of life, and will continue to do so even after having one of their own. Angelina does seem to have a case of foot-in-mouth disease, or is that the paparazzi taking things out of context? Take this example: In a recent interview, Jolie calls her biological daughter "a blob" with less personality than her two adopted kids in recent European interviews. Yes, well, I have been known to affectionately call my own children parasites... (stuck to the breast and all...) And I once wrote that even the family cat (my parents' cat) had more personality than my first-born (when he was a month or t...

The Religion of Secularism Michael Coren The western world is more religions than at almost any tome in its history. No, it's not a typing error, not some spasm of absurdity. Again, the western world is more religious than at almost any time in its history. Religious to a fundamentalist, literalist and vehemently screaming degree. It has its own crusades, inquisitions and lists of banned books and it will seldom listen to contrary opinion. Which is not to say, of course, that North America and Europe is Christian. Nor is it Muslim or Jewish or part of any other historically recognized. No, its gods are several and its faith perverse. The altar sparkles and shines with the sacraments of sexual licence, self-esteem, ecology, material­ism, instant gratification, animal rights, abortion, the cult of progress and the dictatorship of the living. Some of the dark priests of the creed are easy to identify. Stephen Lewis and Henry Morgentaler wear bishop's robes and helping them serv...

Ce n'était pas assez d'avoir des broches, maintenant, il faut ajouter des elastiques en plus... Vraiment, j'ai hâte d'en avoir fini. J'ai mal aux gencives!!! Mais, je suis contente que je n'ai pas eu ça à l'adolescence. Je crois que j'avais assez de problèmes, je n'avais pas besoin de ça de plus. J'aurais dû prendre une photo avant aussi. Comme ça j'aurai eu l' avant , le pendant , et l' après . Je devrais en avoir fini au mois de mai ou juin. J'espère... Ce serait le fun de ne plus avoir ça pour ma fête. Un beau cadeau de fête non? (14 mai; croisons les doigts.)

Life in the North ---------------------------------------------------------------- Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a Snow plow on the highway. "Vacation" means going to Kamloops for the weekend. You measure distance in hours. You know several people who have hit deer, moose, or bears more than once. You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day. You use a down comforter in the summer, but can walk outside barefoot in the winter to grab the beer off the porch. You see people wearing hunting clothes at social events. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked. There are 7 empty cars running in the parking lot at the Canadian Tire store at any given time. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow. You think lingerie is tube socks and flannel pajamas. You know all 4 seasons as: almost winter...

We are in the midst of another snowstorm and hence, it is a snow day today. Since next week is spring break, this is just an early start to a nice long holiday. Our neighbour friend, Maxence is here to play with Maryssa, Gabriel and Dominic. He is the same age as Maryssa and goes to the same school. After all that effort shoveling, I haven't been skating yet and now it is time to shovel again... VIVE LA NEIGE!!! from: http://kemenykalap.freeblog.hu/archives/2006/07/

SALUD PIDE AUXILIO A ESTADOS UNIDOS Y ARGENTINA Paraguay lanza un SOS a la comunidad internacional La imposibilidad de contener la epidemia y el desconocimiento de cómo tratar el dengue visceral obligan a pedir ayuda internacional. El ministro de Salud confirmó ayer que se recurrirá a Estados Unidos y Argentina. Leer más EJECUTIVO NI INTENTO AUN DETENER DETERIORO DE LA CIUDAD Luque es un caos y el intendente Karjallo pide aumento de sueldos Mientras en la ciudad de Luque los problemas son cada vez más acuciantes, como el mal estado de las calles, la falta de recolección de basura y los baldíos abandonados, el intendente Vicente Raúl Karjallo (colorado) pide que se le aumente el sueldo a 9.700.000 guaraníes. Argumenta que quiere ganar como los otros intendentes del departamento Central. Leer más Luque es la ciudad en la cual viví 6 meses, de febrero hasta el fin de julio de 1993. Todavía tengo amigos por ahí, una de los cuales vino hasta Quebec para nuestra boda en 1997.