Emotional

I lay awake in bed at 4am, it's been an hour...I can't go back to sleep.  So many thoughts running through my head.  Last Friday, I got a phone call from my mom saying she and Dad were at the hospital.  Life is very special.  Many of us have a good life, but we never know when that will end, maybe life will only be in the womb for a very short time...  It's been an emotional week as many celebrate, while I mourn 40 years of Roe vs. Wade.

Olivia and I finished reading The Giver last night.  She is 9 years old and I thought it better if we read it together and talked about it, while reading it.  It hit me hard this time.  My 11 year old daughter said she's read it 6 times.  It is definitely a great book, but there are so many issues...  euthanasia (of the old and young who don't "fit" into the society), government control, race (everyone sees in black and white, no colour of flesh), etc.  What are your thoughts on these issues?  If you haven't read it lately, why don't you check it out of your library? 

This is a wonderful documentary in Russian (with English subtitles) of good people, mainly monks and nuns, who are taking care of orphans.  The little boy who is blind and deaf, can only touch and feel love...  At the end, there is a monk who has 2 children helping him ring the bells, one who doesn't have arms, and uses his teeth to pull the rope!  So sweet. ♥  God bless them all!

It's been very cold all week here in Ohio.  I worry about our 3 chickens, outside in the freezing temperatures.  Even the "highs" have been below 32'F this week. They're doing fine, though still faithfully laying eggs.  Rob ran an extension cord out to their coop about 2 months ago, and so they get an extra 3 hours of light and warmth from a heat lamp bulb.  We're getting a bit of snow here, now.