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soapboxes or love?

soapboxes or love?

Amy at Amy’s Humble Musings had a really great post recently. She was referring to the example of a mother who is unable, though she tries, to breastfeed her child and is forced to use formula. However, I believe the main point can apply to other areas (emphasis mine): And so, the woman on the breastfeeding soapbox misses the greater principle of loving her neighbor while she concentrates on the fact that breastmilk really is best. (It is!) The young…

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soapboxes

soapboxes

So something just doesn’t seem right with this headline I saw today: U.S. fails to protect illegal workers: petition Here’s an example of one upset person named Jesus who fell while at work: He required spinal reconstruction surgery, but the insurance company for Jesus’ employer refused to provide workers’ compensation to cover time off work because he was undocumented. That’s right, illegally enter a country and then get upset because that country’s government doesn’t give you the same rights as…

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seeking a warm, cozy bed

seeking a warm, cozy bed

You know those days where you don’t want to get up? Where the entire day you just want to go back to bed? Yeah, today is one of those days. It’s raining today. I could hear it all night, steadily raining. I don’t mind the rain, really, especially when thunder and lightning do not accompany it. The rain just makes me sleepy and lethargic. I always call these “Jane Eyre” days, because they make me want to curl up in…

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martha's tonsils in ernestine's mouth

martha's tonsils in ernestine's mouth

So have you ever read Cheaper By the Dozen? In one chapter of the book, five of the 12 kids need to have their tonsils out. Their father, as efficient as always, decides to have the doctor remove them all on the same day. Martha is the only one of the older children who doesn’t need to have her tonsils out. She is sent to their aunt’s house, being fed on all sorts of unhealthy sweet stuff, while the rest…

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product frustrations

product frustrations

Let me just say that it is really annoying to go buy something from the store, spend a lot of time and energy putting it together, only to find that it either doesn’t work or is missing a vital part. Then you have to undo the whole thing, try to put it back in the original packaging, go return it to the store… This has happened twice now with two different things, and I’m really frustrated. However, apartment rearranging is…

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