Author Archives: Beth

Quiz Time

Put on your thinking caps and move away from the google.   Who said: “All of us have heard people say, ‘I privately am against abortion, homosexual marriage, stem cell research, cloning. But who am I to decide that it’s not right for somebody else?’ It sounds good, but it is the corruption of freedom [...]

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Santorum’s Funding of Planned Parentood….

how can that be defended? As hard as it might be for some of my readers to believe, I have been hoping for the best in this situation, really hoping that he was just clueless and didn’t realize what, exactly it is, that Plann.ed Parenthoo.d does. Yet he just keeps going on and on about [...]

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Meatless Meal Ideas for Lent

With Lent starting tomorrow, I thought I’d share this link with you all! Barbara over a Bless us O Lord put together a list of meatless meals. Thank you!!!

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Some more thinking….

I have boycotted companies known to donate money or in other ways support Planned Parenthood and I know many of you also do that same thing. Yet, for some, it is perfectly okay to vote for the candidate who had (and still seems to have) no problems sending millions of our tax payer dollars to [...]

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Torture and the Catholic Church

CCC 2297 Kidnapping and hostage taking bring on a reign of terror; by means of threats they subject their victims to intolerable pressures. They are morally wrong. Terrorism threatens, wounds, and kills indiscriminately; it is gravely against justice and charity. Torture which uses physical or moral violence to extract confessions, punish the guilty, frighten opponents, [...]

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Just Thinking….

I am pretty disgusted with so called Pro Life groups supporting a candidate who think nothing wrong with funding Title X, yet ignore the man who has introduced more pro-life legislation than any other person in Congress. Honestly, why aren’t more people upset about this? Are we perfectly okay to sit back and let our [...]

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A Link or two…(updated)

I saw this earlier today, but wanted to wait until I had a free moment to blog. Well my waiting paid off because someone else did my work for me For those who are only going to read this part: Santorum has no problem using your tax payer dollars to fund birth control. He was [...]

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Anniversary, Birthdays, and German Chocolate Cake

Last night we celebrated Joshua’s birthday. He isn’t big on his birthday but the kids would just die if we didn’t have cake Joshua likes German Chocolate cake so I found a recipe for and was very excited to try it out. Here is Karol, waiting for the cake to be cut into. Pardon the drippy icing, [...]

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{pretty, happy, funny, real}

~ Capturing the context of everyday life ~ Today I am linking up with Like Mother, Like Daughter for {pretty, happy, funny, real} {pretty} My beautiful children, a true blessing from God. {happy} Nine years ago today, I met my husband, Joshua. It’s hard to believe we’ve known each other for that long! {funny} This is not [...]

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Fried Dough

Today I had a nice meal planned out for the Feast of St. Cyril and St. Methodius, then a headache struck mid-afternoon. It was pretty bad and I planned on going to bed when Joshua got home, even though it was his feast day. I felt bad about leaving him with the dinner rush, so [...]

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