Yep…that’s right. My little guy can write his name from memory. And to answer my grandmother’s (bless her heart) question–yes he knows what each of the letters are.
He has also added the names Dora, Diego and Santa to the list of names he has learned how to write. Next on his list–Spiderman.
those who have in any way been touched by AIDS. Today is World Aids Day, and I write in honor of the mothers around the world who see their only choice to give up their children while knowing they themselves are going to die. In the US, HIV/AIDS is not a death sentence. In the developing world, AIDS is just that–a death sentence.
There are children whose life’s are changed each day by AIDS–they watch their parents and loved ones die. They themselves get sick and perish. It is a travesty that this disease that can be managed is allowed to ravage those who we don’t see as fit to be saved. These could have been my children. By 2010, there will be 20 million AIDS orphans around the world.
I can only imagine the fear that HIV+/Living with AIDS birth mothers live with on a daily basis–worried about passing the disease onto their children/babies. Having to give them up/abandon them because they cannot breastfeed because of the disease and knowing that their babies will die if they don’t give them up–from lack of food. This breaks my heart. While I have a family built through adoption, I wish that no woman/family have to give up their children because they can’t get medical care or have access to other ways to nourish their children.
What can you do? What will you do?
From Us to You! Happy Day of Thanks
Texas has, in their haste to prevent homosexuals from bringing down civilized society, decided (in 2005) that all marriage shall be prohibited. I know hilarious.
How blinded by hate they must have been to just say “no more marriage.” Even though, it appears that they didn’t know they said that. I am sure people have continued to get married in Texas since this constitutional amendment was passed in 2005. I feel bad for those of you this affects. Hope you hadn’t been saving yourself for marriage, since the geniuses running Texas wrote a prop, that the people of the great state of Texas adopted that says “no more marriage.”
This is just another example how little critical thinking we use as a society and what little attention we actually pay to what is going on in our world/government. If they say—it bans gay marriage, they say–yay. Without even reading it. How our education system has failed. It it isn’t a multiple choice test, we apparently don’t know what to do.
So, at the office on Tuesday someone came in to talk to the Dean of the Graduate School (who is my boss) about a doc student who plagiarized their comprehensive exams. This lead into a long discussion about how stupid that was to work so hard for something and then cheat. It just doesn’t make sense. I don’t understand why someone would do that.
Last night as I was sitting on the couch eating a couple pieces of cookie dough, it occurred to me that I am not different from the person who cheated. I pay a good amount of money to work out with a personal trainer–and I work my butt off when I am with him–but I still am eating a bunch of crappy food and not doing my cardio as often as I should. I can’t really explain why I do it–this is something that I need to uncover. I have to wonder if the cheater can explain why they did what they did. What I do isn’t going to get me kicked out of school but it might force my hubby to say we aren’t paying for the trainer anymore if I’m not going to do everything I can.
This is a hard lesson to swallow and a tough thing to face head on. I really have to decide what I want and who I am.
Embracing Imperfection 