Rosebud's New Trick

Summer Rose is now 8 months old, and of course everyday is a new experience and so much fun, but her latest trick has got the whole family in the palm of her hand! I'm not kidding you, she smiles on command! And it's the cutest grin you've ever seen. All you have to do is point a camera at her, and she flashes that huge, squinty-eyed, toothless grin...then everyone just melts into "Awww! She's so cute!"

I know stages come and go so quickly at this age, but this is truly something I'll treasure forever.

Books of th Old Testament

My Seth sings the books of the Old Testament (with a lisp!)

I love my big brother!

Happy Boondoggle Day!

Saturday was Valentine's Day, Monday was President's Day, and today is Boondoggle Day!

Boondoggle Day is usually only celebrated every 4 years; however, it is occasionally skipped. It began during the administration of the late, great, President Franklin "Government is the Answer to All Your Problems" Roosevelt. This year, it will be observed by the peculiar act of robbing a nation of cash-strapped people of $787 billion, in order to make them un-cash-strapped! .....a Washington miracle! We ignorant masses love free money, Uncle Sam! Thank you! In 2012, won't you just give each of us our own money printing press?

So, Happy Boondoggle Day! I think I'll celebrate this year by reading the Constitution to my children as we Homeschool, eating all 3 meals off styrofoam plates, and I may even load up the kids in Jason's gas-guzzling Bronco and go for a spin! How will you celebrate?

More Darwin

Doug Phillips of Vision Forum has a wonderful article about Charles Darwin. Please take time to read it!

"What I Teach My Children About Charles Darwin"

And, as a side note on the subject of evolution vs. Creation, I again wholeheartedly recommend "The New Defender's Study Bible" KJV with notes by Dr. Henry Morris. It is now updated and available in genuine leather.

Call me crazy,.........

but I just love dirty, smelly, freckle-faced boys.

Darwin's Day

Today is the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin. Here is today's devotion from "Days Of Praise", put out by the Institute for Creation Research.


Darwin's Day
February 12, 2009
"But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction." (2 Peter 2:1)
Thousands of clergy have signed "An Open Letter Concerning Religion and Science." On the Sunday closest to Charles Darwin's birthday, these "pastors" eulogize him and endorse evolutionary science as compatible with the Bible. Here are five reasons why this idea is grossly wrong.
• The Bible has absolutely no hint of ages of evolutionary development. Forcing the "days" of Genesis 1 to mean "ages" can be done, but there is no support for that idea in the rest of Scripture (Psalm 33:6-9, 148:5-6; John 1:1-3; Colossians 1:16; Hebrews 1:3; Revelation 4:11; etc.).
• Evolution is not observed at all today. Empirical science is based on observation and verification. Nothing (from bacteria to people) is "evolving" into a "higher order." Period.
• Fossil data does not show any transitional forms. If evolution occurred prior to recorded history, it can only be documented by the fossils embedded in the water-deposited rocks of earth. Those "missing links" are still missing.
• God's character absolutely forbids evolutionary methods. God's holiness demands truth, and His omniscience demands perfection. He cannot know what is best and then "create" something inferior. He wrote that He took six days to create the universe (Exodus 20:11). And He cannot lie!
• God's stated purpose for creating excludes evolution. The creation reveals the Creator (Romans 1:20, Psalm 19:1-4), gives authority to the message of Jesus Christ (John 1:1-14, Colossians 1:16-18), and is the foundation for the gospel and for worship (Revelation 14:6-7). Creating is what God does at the moment of the new birth (Ephesians 2:8-10).

Henry Madison Morris III

Simply Delicious Chocolate Cake

Cake decorating is a hobby of mine. I don't do it for money, just for enjoyment. With 5 kids, I get plenty of practice throughout the year with birthday cakes alone! I always try for my cakes to taste as good as they look; however, sometimes, for the sake of art, you have to sacrifice. An example of this is chocolate. Chocolate decorator frosting tastes horrible! (I usually just use brown vanilla frosting.) So, occasionally, I just like to throw "art" aside, and make a simply delicious cake from scratch. Today, I'll share my recipe for yellow cake with creamy chocolate frosting. You probably have all the ingredients on hand! Enjoy!

Yellow cake:

2 1/2 c. all-purpose flour

2 1/2 tsp. baking powder

1/2 tsp. salt

2/3 c. butter, softened

1 3/4 c. sugar

2 eggs

1 1/2 tsp. vanilla

1 1/4 c. milk

Greast and flour 2 9-in. round cake pans (I use Wilton Cake Release).

Preheat oven to 350.

Combine flour, baking powder, and salt in small bowl. Set aside.

Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.

Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.

Add vanilla.

Add flour to creamed mixture, alternately with milk, beating well after each.

Bake 25-30 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

Allow to cool for 10 minutes in pan. Then dump and cool completely, covered with a cloth, on a wire rack.

Chocolate Frosting:

1 c. butter, softened

1/2 c. cocoa

4 c. powdered sugar

6 Tbsp. half and half

1 tsp. vanilla

Cream butter and cocoa. Slowly work in sugar and half and half. Add vanilla. Store in refrigerator.

I can dish it out, and I can take it.

I caused quite a commotion in our little town a few weeks ago (click on the previous link and read the article from The Cedartown Standard, then read the comments that followed). It all started when a reporter who attended the Sanctity of Life Memorial picked one line from my speech that I gave and quoted me in the paper. It just so happened that the one line included the words, "bloodthirsty president". If you had been there, you would have heard me say, in a positive tone, that even though we have a bloodthirsty president, we can still help reduce abortions by sharing the gospel. The gist of the talk was that it's the gospel that saves women who are in sin (which leads them ultimately to have abortions), not the government; that we as pro-life Americans can't give up just because we have a President who campaigned on expanding abortion rights to be on the same level as the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The entire morning had been spent "qualifying", or proving quite conclusively, that Barack Obama is truly the most bloodthirsty President in American history. A man who actually voted against the Born Alive Infants Protection Act in his home state of Illinois (a bill which even NARAL Pro-Choice America was silent on).

I didn't respond to the comments -and believe me, I had plenty to say!- but the Bible says to "Answer not a fool according to his own folly, lest thou also be like unto him".

So, all I will finally say is this, I can dish it out, and I can take it. I'll take the heat and bear it patiently and deliberately, if it means speaking up for the unborn.....and, as you'll read in the link below, even the already born...at times.

Please take time to read the article linked below. It truly illustrates the insanity of abortion. How, a botched abortion that resulted in a live delivery (they then threw the live baby out in the biohazard trash in a plastic bag), is somehow considered criminal...when the original plan was to deliver the baby breech, all but the head, then make an incision in the back of his/her neck, then suck his/her brain out while she was alive and kicking. Where is the logic...and where is the compassion? Lord, help us!
Florida Abortion Clinic Throws Out Live Baby

Spaghetti!