7-Quick Takes-late Sunday Edition

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1. Sam the Second Son- turned 20 this week! It was a quiet low-key dinner party that we didn’t actually get to until after 8 p.m. at night!  Because Sam had to work and then he had his guitar lesson. But it was worth the wait.

2.Izzy made the cake. Since Sam is working in the Pizza Shop – she made him a Pizza- themed cake.

3. Since last Monday was the feast of St. Agnes, Rosie made several little sheep out of pompoms.  They’re quite cute! and are now around our left-over poinsettia plant holding court.

4. I was so proud of the Pro-life movement this week!  I read that over 600,000 marched for life in Washington!  And even with those numbers, the media downplayed it. 


5.
When I was growing up in the 1960s, I remember hearing about Radio Free Europe.  this was a time when the Communist regimes tightly controlled what information the people received and then strongly fed propaganda to the masses.

Radio Free Europe was an attempt to spread the truth to the people of Europe who were being denied information by their governments.

And now i have lived long enough to see that Americans are being denied the information by the media that serves them.  The only catch being that at least for now, we can get information e-mail, Twitter, Facebook and texting.

6.
I had one of those rough Saturday nights.  A night when one of my kids takes off for a friends house and then doesn’t show up again until way past curfew.  This is the reason my eczema today is bloody raw.  I know when my kids are grown and gone, i will miss them. But I wonder sometimes if I will live long enough to get them all safely through adolescence.

7. A fun photo from Facebook!