Oreo and Peanut Butter Mini Pies

This yummy recipe will make me the coolest aunty EVER!!! Just when I thought Mod Cloth was all about the fabulous clothes!!!

Oreo and Peanut Butter Mini Pies

Tongues Trained

I have been on a hiatus for a bit. Okay, really I wanted to take the time to learn to bridal my tongue. I came across Psalms 64:3 and had an epiphany about not wanting this description to be me. Haven't we all seen and done enough of that?

"They sharpen their tongues like swords and aim cruel words like deadly arrows."

So many lessons learned, so much forgiveness prayed for.

The Love I Will Never Know

Sometimes I hear something, or in this case read something that just breaks my heart. I can across this article (The Love I Will Never Know) while on the train home recently and as I read it I could feel the blood drain out of my face and tears well up in my eyes. While I have never had a miscarriage (think miracle of epic proportion), this woman's look back on her life, decisions she made and the resulting loss is devastating to read and I can sympathize on a deep and painful level.

I know I still have some time and I know it is in God's hands but it still breaks my heart a little more each time I hold a precious baby or hear a baby's laughter.

Excerpt, "I know, for example, that not being a mother means there is a part of me which remains unused, a love that will be forever unexpressed. I know that what any mother describes as the most profound love she has ever known is, to me, a locked door — there is so much love I will never be able to give, wisdom and understanding I cannot share, shelter and solace I cannot provide."

I think I need a hug.

Great Quotes - Mothers

“A woman is seen in her most sacred and dignified character as wife and mother. She has great influence over the character of individuals, over the condition of families, and over the destinies of empires.

It is a fact that many of the noblest patriots, our most profound scholars, and our holiest ministers, were stimulated to their excellence and usefulness by those holy principles which they derived in early years from devoted mothers

...our mothers are our earliest instructors, and they have an influence over us, the importance of which, for time and eternity, surpasses the power of language to describe.”

~ Daughters of Destiny ~

Worthwhile Quotes

He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.

~Thomas Fuller~

Great Blog Post

My friend Marc wrote a great blog post called One Flesh, One Heart: A Gift from God. Before I had read it I had just gotten done reading my friend Kate's birth story for her precious second daughter Elyse (Read here). I couldn't help think of her comments about her husband doing little things that were exactly what she needed him to do during her labor (not including the yucky homemade lemonade energy drink. LOL). It was a small example of what Marc is taking about, although Marc is talking about something even deeper. It is nice to read such a great example and of course, it made me tear up.

It also gives me hope. =)

Where is NOW?

Oh, Mr. Maher...do you kiss your mama with that mouth??? See article, Bill Maher Calls Sarah Palin a Female Vulgarism, NOW Stays Mum, Mr. Maher show.

Why does it not surprise me that NOW is not making a comment? I think Mr. Vadim hit the truth when he said, “NOW really ought to change its name to National Organization for Liberal Women because as far as it's concerned conservative women aren't real women at all.”

I have heard this same thought process in several conversations I have had with people. They consider themselves feminists, and yet they can not bring themselves to offer one word of support for Sarah Palin. Why? Mrs. Palin is the epitome of a feminist. The only areas they really find her “lacking” is that she is a pro-life and conservative. To them being pro-life and a conservative somehow makes her ineligible to be a feminist and not worthy of representation by feminist watch dogs.

Feminism has become irrevocably tied to the topic of abortion, by the feminists themselves. If we are pro-life, we can not in their eyes be feminists. Sarah Palin is everything a feminist should be, but because she is pro-life she is not welcome. It seems to such a clear double standard. In fact, feminism today is becoming a joke.

I think feminism, as it is today, is a travesty that is doing its best to destroy society as a whole. God did not intend for men and women to be interchangeable. We were created with wonderful differences, that if we spent less time fighting and more time embracing, we would be much happier.