The One Hour Craft blog has a link-o-licious list of craft blogs, well worth visit if you are looking for that next project or some craft ideas. She also had a link to some FREE sewing patterns worth checking out!
The Kitchen Madonna had an interesting recipe for bread pudding. If you read a lot of historical fiction, they’re always talking about puddings. This might be a great opportunity that not all pudding comes out of a JELLO box!
RS Design is a new business that will design your blog banner for $25 and install it for just $10 more! HT Meredith who actually has a new banner!
I just love Sister Mary Martha. She tells it straight with no malarky. No political correctness quagmire stuffed into a “follow your conscience” new agey goo here! Very refreshing!
Of course let’s give Father Joe some props too for his 22 Ways to be a Good Democrat!
Here’s a sample!:
11. You have to believe that Mel Gibson spent $25 million of his own money to make The Passion of the Christ for financial gain only.
12. You have to believe the NRA is bad because it supports certain parts of the Constitution, while the ACLU is good because it supports certain parts of the Constitution.
13. You have to believe that taxes are too low, but ATM fees are too high.
14. You have to believe that Margaret Sanger and Gloria Steinem are more important to American history than Thomas Jefferson, Gen. Robert E. Lee, and Thomas Edison & A.G. Bell.
15. You have to believe that standardized tests are racist, but racial quotas and set-asides are not.
16. You have to believe that Hillary Clinton is normal and is a very nice person.
Julie D had this fascinating link to a family that just recently converted to Catholicism. What fascinates me the most about conversion stories is looking for that instant where the person starts to get the glimpse that maybe the Catholic Church really is all she is cracked up to be. I especially enjoy stories that come to that conclusion from actually doing some research! From the link:
Home schooling does make you into a researcher. And two years ago, we were studying the Reformation. I read quotes of Luther and was jaw-dropped stunned. This was a vile man. The father of Protestantism was anything but an altar boy. I recalled that one of my Nazarene mentors had told me that Luther didn’t believe Revelation contained anything of Jesus in it. Come again? So in 2005 I am having this revelation on Luther (kill all the peasants) and yet it’s not coming together that maybe we shouldn’t have all followed quite so blindly after Luther. (After all, my new favorite saying is Israel was no less Israel …)
A good read!
Jill Stanek has an actual abortion clip on her blog here. She writes: “As a personal aside, my #2 son interned for JFA a few summers ago while in college as The Harder Truth was being finalized. It was his responsibiliity to go through, and frame by frame, 10 hours a day for a couple weeks, blur pornographic displays of a mother’s perinneal area so the focus would be on the baby being aborted and film viewable in church and by young people. The experience was traumatic for him.
Don’t continue to support abortion without knowing what you support.”
Jill also blogs about a suite against the FDA for approving over-the-counter sale of Plan B.
Danielle Bean has The Face of Cystic Fibrosis on her blog.
She writes:
To share the fact that being open to life under challenging circumstances has its own rewards. To share that saying yes to God, saying yes to life, even when you are scared, is an astonishingly difficult decision and yet one that repays you a thousand fold.
Barb over at MommyLife has a reader who is doing some research and asking for help regarding homeschooling:
I am a SHAM of two great children, Kali is 6 and Kaden is 2. I am also a education student. I have been reading your blog for a couple of weeks now and I find it really informative and interesting. I though that you might be willing to help me with one of my assignments. My assignment is to interview children ages 5-17 that have or are being home-educated. Ask the students to describe the experience. Do they miss having more friends? What do they do when they are not being home-educated? If they have been in public/private school, ask how home education compares to this environment. I know that you have a wide range of children, I also know that I am suppose to interview the children, but I find that most time parents can give the answers to these types of questions because they know what their children will say. I do not know any families in my community that home-school, so I am reaching out to the mommy blog community. I would really appreciate your help. jillianp2525(at)sbcglobal(dot)net
Finally Trinity Prep School suggests the book Carved in Sand.
When Attention Fails and Memory Fades in Midlife: Is it Aging or Alzheimers?
If you’re not asking yourself this question some days, read no farther! According to a recent review: “A groundbreaking work that represents the best of narrative nonfiction, this is a timely, highly readable, and much-needed book for anyone whose memory is not what it used to be.” And if your memory is still perfect, then you must be much younger than I am….save this title to read in 10 years from now! Oh, and Good Luck remembering the title by then.
So that’s 11 or 12 good links, (I can’t remember which!) Enjoy!
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