Texas teen spared forced abortion – for two weeks | LifeSiteNews.com

Texas teen spared forced abortion for two weeks | LifeSiteNews.com

Security guards claim breastfeeding is indecent

Across the border in Washington, DC, a lawyer, Simone Dos Santos was told by security guards to hault her breastfeeding because it was indecent!

Dos Santos "was waiting for a traffic hearing and stepped out into the hallway to breastfeed when the guards approached her, although she had covered her baby with a jacket.

 “I was shocked, upset and angry that by providing food for my son, I was being treated like a criminal,” she said in recent news reports."

Read the full story at abc news here... or at Lifetime Moms WARNING: Even though this article originated at Lifetime Moms it has an image attached that I feel is inappropriate (especially for children) and sexual in nature.

Also...check out my latest review on Bebe Au Lait nursing covers!

30 things not to do to make your life better

I came across the following post today at "Marc and Angel Hack Life" entitled, 30 Things to Stop Doing to Yourself.

There's probably a lot in here that you've heard before but it is so good to be reminded!

 "As Maria Robinson once said, “Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”  Nothing could be closer to the truth.  But before you can begin this process of transformation you have to stop doing the things that have been holding you back."

Here are some ideas to get you started:

Contraceptives not the answer to hiv & aids epidemic

"The fatal danger of relentlessly pushing contraceptives on Uganda and other African countries was laid bare recently in an alarming new report showing that the most popular contraceptive in Eastern and Southern Africa may actually double the risk of contracting HIV. After experiencing success in combating HIV/AIDS in Uganda through an anti-contraception initiative, it’s not surprising to hear that contraceptives are part of, and not a solution to, the problem." 


Read the full story here...Uganda clearly shows contraceptives not the answer to HIV/AIDS epidemic | LifeSiteNews.com

The difference between Sweet Potatoes and Yams

Ah, the age old question...what is the difference between sweet potatoes and yams?

Every year around Thanksgiving when we are about to eat this delicious orange coloured food I wonder, what exactly are we eating??? Is it a yam? Is it a sweet potato?

So after all of my research this is what I came up with.

As it turns out, sweet potatoes and yams are not even related!

and

You and I are most likely eating sweet potatoes unless we have gone to some specialty ethnic store to buy yams.

 Depending on where you look you will get slightly varying answers as to why there is so much confusion on this topic. Basically, the YAMS you find in the grocery stores, farmer's markets etc, are just mislabeled and are in fact SWEET POTATOES.

Although these two foods are often confused with one another they do have differences in appearance.

While sweet potatoes are have a stubbly appearance and texture with an orange or yellow coloured skin and flesh and a shape that tapers at the ends, yams are longer and more cylindrical in shape with a rougher appearance and texture and a dark brownish skin colour with purple, red or white flesh.

True yams are tubers of a tropical vine and come from tropical climates, mostly South America, Africa and the Caribbean and are a rare find here in Canada or the U.S.

Canadian woman kills newborn and walks!

Every now and then, certainly much more than we'd like to, we hear of a mother doing the unthinkable to her own child.

In 2005 a 19 year old Alberta woman strangled her newborn son to death with her thong underwear and then tossed his body over a fence into a neighbour's yard.

The mother, Katrina Effert, was found guilty by not one but two juries of second degree murder.

She was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for ten years.

An appeals court then reduced her conviction to infanticide (when a mother kills her newly born child by a willful act but is found to be disturbed at the time of the killing because she has not fully recovered from the effects of giving birth or of the effect of lactation from giving birth to the child).

Just last month she was given a three year SUSPENDED sentence which means that she will not spend those three years in jail but instead under certain conditions.

The following is from the post, "Thrown Over the Fence - Infanticide, Canadian Style"

Justice Joanne Veit, whose name should now go down in legal and moral infamy, tied this woman’s act of infanticide to Canada’s lack of legal restrictions on abortion. The judge’s decision stated that “while many Canadians undoubtedly view abortion as a less than ideal solution to unprotected sex and unwanted pregnancy, they generally understand, accept and sympathize with the onerous demands pregnancy and childbirth exact from mothers, especially mothers without support.”

Continue reading the full story at albertmohler.com

Fall Fashion featuring La Posh Style

On a lighter note (my last post was a little heavy), thank you to Little Birdie Secrets for featuring some super cute things from La Posh Style of which I will now share with you along with a few other items I added myself. Aren't you lucky!

I like these very much...don't you?

and these...

and these...

oh, and this...

and...

and finally...

Oh, being a girl is such fun! Every now and then it's nice to get your shop on!