Coucoumellisms

It turns out that what I have are not migraines. If they were migraines, they wouldn't be reappearing every day. They'd last for 2 or 3 days then go away. Mine mostly appear mid-morning to mid-afternoon, and go away in the evenings. (After the younger kids are in bed - coincidence?) I wouldn't be able to play sports, but I am and not only that, but the headache (if I have one) usually goes away as soon as I leave for soccer. If they were migraines, I'd be lying in bed unable to function, but I've never been incapable of functioning. They slow me down, I have less energy and they are usually accompanied with fatigue, but I can still function. What's more, back when I used to be able to lie down and sleep when I had a headache, they'd disappear after a nap. (Don't get that luxury anymore.) So what I do have are tensory headaches. Headaches due to tension and stress. Who me? Stressed out? A housewife with nothing to do all day, but watch a co...

Caught these two sleeping in... We celebrated Maryssa's birthday May 3. She turned 8 on March 30, but it wasn't until May that we had the birthday party, because this year, we did it at a ranch. The kids all rode the horse (Benji), and had a great time. More pics on Flickr. Nicolas likes to drink his "coffee" in the morning with Mom. He actually gets about a 1/4 of a cup of weak coffee in the bottom of his cup, then I fill the rest with milk, so it is barely lukewarm and very diluted. I add a bit of honey, and voilà - "coffee". Time to get out there... ... and start drinking coffee at the bistro set, from which we can admire these beautiful flowers, and more as the season progresses. Time to get out the pretty placemats and enjoy spring... ... even when it is raining out and you have to eat in. My Backyard in Spring: Who needs to go camping when we can live here all year round? Love this place.

I have always hated shoulder pads, ever since I was a teenager. I finally ripped them out of the dress I was wearing, at which my mother exclaimed "Why did you do that?" But Mom, I already look like a football player!!! With shoulders like mine, I don't need shoulder pads! I don't get why any woman needs to wear shoulder pads. Who invented the things anyway? Some feminist designer who decided that women should look manly? If you have small shoulders and a delicate, feminine shape, why in heck would you want to cover that up with something as ugly as shoulder pads? And if, like me, you already have broad shoulders and a large frame, why on earth would you want to ephasize that for? We're women. We're supposed to be the smaller, prettier, more delicate sex. You know who should be wearing shoulder pads? MEN. But men won't wear anything that isn't comfortable. So women will wear uncomfortable stuff that makes them look more masculine, why ? Just some o...

Le jeudi 22 mai 2008 Agnès Gruda Claudia Tucker avait très peur de son mari, un homme rude et abusif. Le jour où il a menacé de la quitter si jamais elle devait concevoir un troisième enfant, la jeune femme l’a pris au mot. ( Lire plus... ) À son huitième mois de grossesse, Claudia Tucker a craqué. Elle a pris une carabine et l’a pointée sur son abdomen. Puis elle a tiré. Lorsqu’elle s’est présentée à l’hôpital, il était trop tard pour sauver le fœtus. Des policiers attendaient Claudia Tucker à la sortie de l’établissement avec, en main, un mandat d’arrêt pour meurtre. (...) «Une fois qu’un gouvernement établit des droits spécifiques pour le fœtus, cela signifie inévitablement un recul des droits des femmes enceintes», dénonce Lynn Paltrow, directrice de la NAPW qui recense des dizaines de cas similaires. (...) Le 5 mars, les députés à la Chambre des communes ont adopté en deuxième lecture un projet de loi «sur les enfants non encore nés victimes d’actes criminels». Il s’agit d’un proj...

According to this , same-sex marriage points to the end of the world.

The proposed laws, the first major review of embryo science in Britain for almost 20 years, have provoked stormy debate - pitting Prime Minister Gordon Brown and scientists against religious leaders, anti-abortion campaigners and a large number of lawmakers. Brown has said he believes scientists seeking to use mixed animal-human embryos for stem cell research into diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's are on a moral mission to improve - and save - millions of lives. The process involves injecting an empty cow or rabbit egg with human DNA. A burst of electricity is then used to trick the egg into dividing regularly, so that it becomes a very early embryo, from which stem cells can be extracted. Scientists say the embryos would not be allowed to develop for more than 14 days, and are intended to address the shortage of human embryos available for stem cell research. Read full story here. Is it just me or does this sound like some freaky story right out of The Outer Limits ...

Citizen Special Thursday, May 15, 2008 There is something seriously wrong with our system when the so-called "right" to end a pregnancy takes away another pregnant woman's right to have her wanted baby protected in law. But that is exactly where we have arrived in the debate surrounding my private member's Bill, C-484, the Unborn Victims of Crime Act. In drafting this bill, I was very specific to my legal advisers that I wanted to inoculate this legislation against the abortion question and cases of harm caused by the pregnant woman. The legal drafters did this. C-484 applies only in the commission of an offence against the woman, and "for greater certainty" there is an explicit exclusion for consensual termination of pregnancy and acts or omissions by the pregnant woman. A constitutional expert from McGill University has given me a legal opinion attesting to the bill's constitutionality. Yet claims that have no basis in fact continue to be levelled agai...

Pro-Life Alert- PLEASE FORWARD TO YOUR CONTACTS AND HAND THIS OUT TO MEDIA AT THE MARCH-THANKSFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 7, 2008 CANADA SILENT NO MORE is an organization of former abortion patients across Canada who know first hand all about what an abortion really is, and what it has done to our bodies, our minds and our pre-born children. For years many of us have suffered in silence with the guilt, remorse, regret and deep sorrow of making the biggest mistake in our lives. We believed those who lied, when they said, "It's just a clump of tissue". We believed them when they said legal abortion is a "safe" procedure; another lie. Many of us were pressured or coerced into it. Tragically, some of us aborted the only child or children we would or could ever have-due to the physical damage abortion caused in our womb and cervix. Many of us have been traumatized by the abortion procedure called Post Abortion Syndrome, a traumatic stress disorder recognized by Dr. Vin...