3 ice cubes
3 medium, ripe bananas
1 cup unsweetened applesauce
as much water as I can hold
Select Puree on the blender and enjoy sharing it with my toddler.
I did this tonight and it was much easier than drinking glass after glass of water to cure diarrhea. Thank God for healthy, simple recipes that taste good!
I sent this to a friend yesterday after she told me that she donated her microwave, and added a few things to it. I hope you will find it useful. Please feel free to add your suggestions. I have wanted to talk about this for a while and I apologize for waiting. I will post research about health concerns related to microwave oven usage when I have more solid evidence besides what is on Dr. Mercola’s website.
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This is from Saturday 31 and June 1, on my old “Small Miracles” desk calendar:
Lillian was an energetic young woman who loved driving long distances, did not tire easily, and relished any opportunity to do a good deed.
She once drove two young servicemen to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, from her hometown of New Castle, Pennsylvania. After she dropped the man on base, she started back home.
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After 21 Years, Pro-Lifers Vindicated of Racketeering
CHICAGO, May 9
Christian Newswire
The National Organization of Women (NOW) was handed a final defeat yesterday as U.S. District Judge David Coar once and for all ruled that federal anti-racketeering laws cannot be applied to pro-life protesters, putting an end to 21 years of litigation that resulted in an unprecedented three trips to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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It is hard for me to explain this because the term is so common now and I don’t know if any readers will understand, because it might be the only way they think about pregnancy these days: ‘planned’ or ‘unplanned’. I felt very uncomfortable today at the clinic when I was filling out forms and I was asked if this pregnancy is ‘planned’…I asked Luke and we said “yes”, but I wanted to say, “this pregnancy was hoped for, it was a gift from God!” We had been hoping for another baby since last summer. We can’t plan to have a baby a certain month and give birth nine months later though. It just doesn’t happen that way. Even when a woman is not breastfeeding and is in perfect health, the chances of conceiving are not 50-50.
Upon further reflection, it seems to me that this is yet another symptom of society’s rejecting God in everything. The words we use make important impressions on the way we think about things.
Was your baby planned? -is it bad if he wasn’t?
Does your baby sleep through the night? -is it bad if she doesn’t, if she wakes up every once in a while and nurses back to sleep?
Are you pro choice? -do you mean do I support the right to choose raising my baby with my husband, or giving him up for adoption…or do you mean something more sinister?
Do you work? -what does it mean if I don’t work for pay, but my work is infinitely more rewarding, my work is orienting our children toward God and Heaven?
Just a few things to think about…
From another conversation with a different agnostic/atheist…
from our catechism, “My Catholic Faith”
How do we know by our reason that God exists?
-We know by our reason that God exists, because of:
1. The existence of the world.
2. The order and harmony of the whole universe.
3. The testimony of our conscience.
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Dear friend,
Life is so short. It may seem to stretch far into the future, but you may notice the hours and days zooming by, and if you look back on the years you have lived, it might seem like a few blinks of an eye. I hope you don’t pass all of the rest of your time in agnostic uncertainty.
It sounds like it feels like freedom to you. Maybe you don’t remember, or you never even experienced the true freedom of Faith. The freedom that the world gives is so fleeting and so deceptive.
I told you that my religion is like a part of the air I breathe. Understand that it is not a suffocating part but a part that makes it much easier to take great, deep breaths. It frees my soul, relaxing my body. It is water fresh from the filter pitcher after the filter has been changed, the best. Sometimes understanding a new-to-me aspect of Faith is like a satisfying kick of a soccer ball (I also enjoy soccer). A good Confession is like the oh-so-satisfying feeling that comes after scrubbing and rubbing food off a dish, to see it clean again. Of course in reality is much better than all of these sensations, because it penetrates to my soul.
I hope with all my heart that one day you will again treasure the pearl of great price that you let fall from your hands.
With the love of one who embraces the convictions you once held,
your friendly neighborhood Catholic mama,
Corinne
Today’s News & Views
April 23, 2007
“If you have to dress something up to obfuscate the truth of
what’s in play, you can probably assume it’s wrong” — Part One of Two
Coverage of last week’s Supreme Court decision upholding the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act continues unabated, rolling in like waves to the shore. Naturally, the quality varies, but each account, in its own way, contributes something important to our understanding of the historic Gonzales v. Carhart decision.
I have written six separate pieces on the 5-4 decision and reprinted two others. But the truth is, this only begins to scratch the surface of Justice Kennedy’s intriguing majority decision. Suffice it to say, the 39-page explanation operates on many levels, including some, no doubt, that are subconscious.
Several people were kind enough to forward me an op-ed that appeared over the weekend and today, written by Kathleen Parker. Talk about cutting through the fog!
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Here is some parenting advice for those who happen upon it. It is not coming from one of those annoying people who has no children and wants to tell you how to raise yours. It is coming from a mama who wants to record her observations in the hopes that they will help others.
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The fourth member of our family, Catherine’s first sibling, is baking in the Mama oven until around the middle of November, 2007. Alleluia! Deo Gratias. Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us. St. Joseph, pray for us. St. Dominic Savio, pray for us.