Fried Chicken & The Pope

After watching sales falling off for three straight months at Kentucky Fried Chicken, the Colonel calls up the Pope and asks for a favor. The Pope says, "What can I do?"

The Colonel says, "I need you to change the daily prayer from, 'Give us this day our daily bread' to 'Give us this day our daily chicken'. If you do it, I'll donate 10 Million Dollars to the Vatican."

The Pope replies, "I am sorry. That is the Lord's prayer and I can not change the words." So the Colonel hangs up. After another month of dismal sales, the Colonel panics, and calls again.

"Listen your Excellency. I really need your help. I'll donate $50 million dollars if you change the words of the daily prayer from 'Give us this day our daily bread' to 'Give us this day our daily chicken.'" And the Pope responds, "It is very tempting, Colonel Sanders. The church could do a lot of good with that much money. It would help us to support many charities. But, again, I must decline. It is the Lord's prayer, and I can't change the words."

So the Colonel gives up again. After two more months of terrible sales. The Colonel gets desperate. "This is my final offer, your Excellency. If you change the words of the daily prayer from, 'Give us this day our daily bread' to 'Give us this day our daily chicken' I will donate $100 million to the Vatican."

The Pope replies, "Let me get back to you."

So the next day, the Pope calls together all of his bishops and he says, "I have some good news and I have some bad news. The good news is that KFC is going to donate $100 million to the Vatican." The bishops rejoice at the news. Then one asks about the bad news. The Pope replies, "The bad news is that we lost the Wonder Bread account."

Why I Chose NOT To Use A Carseat

*WHY I CHOOSE NOT TO USE A CAR SEAT*
Author unknown

I refuse to feel guilty for making an educated choice to not put my baby in
a car seat. There are so many militant car seat users in our society and I
am tired of them pushing their beliefs on me. There are lots of reasons I
have made this choice. First of all, I want my husband to be able to drive
him around in his car. He can just sit him on his lap when they go for a
ride. This will help him bond and be closer with our son. I don't want to be
the only one that drives him around. It makes my husband, mother and friends
feel special when they can take him for rides. I will be returning to work in 6 weeks and
I don't want a big old car seat in the back of our luxury car. I never put
my first son in a car seat and he is just fine. I was never in a car seat,
neither was my mother and we are both as healthy as can be. On the other
hand, my sister in law's cousin used a car seat and her child was seriously
injured in a car wreck. My aunt tried to use a car seat and wasn't able to.
She was never able to latch the baby in the seat properly. In fact, my car
is too small for a car seat anyway. What matters most is that my baby is healthy and happy.
When I left the hospital, they told me that I should try to use the car
seat, but if it didn't work out that it was all right to not use it. In
fact, in the diaper bag that I received from the hospital, it has some
information for how to safely ride in the car with my son without a car
seat. I tried for 1 week to use a car seat with my first son and it made
both of us miserable. I told my pediatrician about it, and he said it would
probably be best to not use a car seat anymore. Now he is happy and content
sitting on my lap as we drive. Using a car seat is just so inconvenient! My
privacy is also an issue. Do I want everyone to know when they see my car
that I have a child??? Besides, my children need to learn how to ride in the
car without being in the car seat. I don't want a 3 year old still wanting
to get in his seat! I know that using a car seat has some benefits, but
there are a lot of people out there who don't use them and their kids are
just fine! There are people out there that cannot use a car seat (can't
latch baby in properly, car is too small, doesn't match with the interior).
Using a car seat is a personal choice and nobody's business. As a parent I
have made the decision for what is best for my child. It works best for us
and our child.....and that is all that is important. It's my choice after
all, isn't it??

For all you morons out there, this is a poke at Moms that chose not to breastfeed.....get it????

Baby Got Book

Okay....I can see I am going to get TONS of flack about this next link...but I had to do it.

Warning:
I do not condone nor recommend anyone watching this video....but in case you do not head my warning, it is hysterical if you know the original "Baby Got Back"




http://www.whiteboydj.com/babygotbook.html

Click on the link and then push the play button...make sure you can hear the volume, but not to loud...Especially if you are at work! Although everyone will see you dancing anyway....

Cesarean Birth

I have a sweet friend who had her #2 C-section last summer. She desperately wanted a VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean) and she tried her darndest to accomplish that (believe me!!!!!)....but for some reason it did not work out.
She had put together a slideshow of moms that she knows that had had between 1-4 C's...and all who wanted a VBAC. The show is their pregnancies, labors, cesarean births and beautiful babies.

Please read what this mom has to say, and then watch her slideshow. It is a way for her (all the moms) to process their births and heal their empty hearts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIFNemQfe3s

"Yesterday was Liam's birthday and the 3rd anniversary
of my 1st c-section. I still have a hard time
separating the two from each other. One of the
happiest days of my life, one of the worst days of my
life.

As a sort of cathartic project I put together a
slideshow that kind of depicts how I feel about it.
Whenever I listened to the song that is playing on the
slideshow, it would immediately bring me back to my
labor... the lyrics are so fitting about how I feel
about it all.

Empty by the Cranberries

"Something has left my life,
And I don't know where it went to.
Somebody caused me strife,
And it's not what I was seeking.

Didn't you see me, didn't you hear me?
Didn't you see me standing there?
Why did you turn out the lights?
Did you know that I was sleeping?

Say a prayer for me,
Help me to feel the strength I did.
My identity, has it been taken?
Is my heart breaking on me?

All my plans fell through my hands,
They fell through my hands on me.
All my dreams it suddenly seems,
It suddenly seems,
Empty"

My long hard labors ended in "emptiness"... what
should have just been an empty belly became an empty
heart, an empty woman. A feeling of incompleteness.
This slideshow depicts the whole of my experience, the
big hole of my experience.

The pictures are a mix of my labor pics and those
donated by CBAC moms- those who tried for a VBAC and
had it end in another cesarean. It is so
heartwrenching seeing all these moms laboring at home-
going for an HBAC- and having it end in a second (or
fourth in one case!) unwanted cesarean. There is a
smattering of pictures from some moms' first CS in
there as well.

Anyway, I was reading on your blog that your first
child's birthday was recently... and how c-section
could have been in your birth history... so I thought
you might "get" this... "

Pro Breastfeeding TV commercial

Go to Dr Jay Gordon's website (below) and click on the 20/20 story (scroll down a bit on the right side) about the Pro-Breastfeeding TV ads that were pulled off the air. C-R-A-Z-Y
What is wrong with these people?????????????????????????????????????? SO WHAT if the formula companies are going to lose money....GOOD FOR THEM.
ARG......


http://www.drjaygordon.com/development/index.asp#

Heads of State as Women

Dr Phil

I rarely watch TV....and even more rare is me watching a Dr Phil show or an Oprah show....however, it seems that when I do have a lazy afternoon and I flip on the TV and watch one of those shows I am BLOWN AWAY by the stupidity of people! It is so sad to me how awful people can act and treat others and it be considered "okay".

SO today Dr Phil had a guy on his show that was protesting his being forced into fatherhood and all that entails ($500 per month in child support). This guy (I hesitate to use the word Dad or Father) was in a law suit over the fact that he, as a man, is not given the same choices a woman is given when she does not want to become a parent. He says he should not be forced into caring for a child he "accidentally" created and does not want. Do I even need to go into this subject? I mean PLEASE....if you have sex, there is ALWAYS the possibility of conceiving a child. I have done numerous births for moms who have been VERY careful and VERY protected and yet they are pushing out a baby. (ummm....isn't God in control of that anyway?????????). So for him to say he did not make that choice is insane. He says that the mom could have aborted the child, put the child up for adoption or abandoned the child and society would have been fine with that.....but he as the biological father has no choice as to what to do with the child and if he wants to support that child or not. Well, shall we break this down? Okay! :)

God did not intend for us to have sex outside of the marriage relationship. If they had obeyed the rules they would not ever have to worry about having a baby.

Birth control is NEVER 100%. This particular mom was on the Pill. As stated before, I have done births for moms who have been on the pill, used a prophylactic, had an IUD, been on depo, had their tubes tied, had a hubby with a vasectomy.....etc. If you are having sex you are saying you are willing to have a child.

Just because the law states that something is okay does NOT mean that in the eyes of the Lord it is okay. A woman's "choice"of having an abortion is not a choice, it is murder. Just because she technically can lawfully decided to have her child sucked down a sink does not make it right. SO her ability of being able to dispose of a baby does not make it okay for him (the dad) to not take care of the baby he has helped create. (that is this mans argument)

So later in the broadcast I saw a dad who is wanting to have more kids even though the mom is NOT wanting anymore...and a dad who is on strike (on his roof) till his wife gives in and gets the baby out of their room (no kidding). WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE GUYS? It sounds to me like they are being extremely selfish and really only care about themselves and what THEY want. The heart of this issue is pride, arrogance and selfishness. Not that all the moms are 100% correct (except in the baby in the bed thing....HELLOOOOOO....it is proven to be better for the baby to be with mom in the early months than in his/her own crib alone). It sounds to me like these couples have an underling problem here that effects the parenting relationship.....and they need to get that taken care of before anything else going to get any better.

So does this mean that everyday on every Dr Phil show they have some idiot on there who is a jerk...and Dr Phil has to try and sort it out? Poor Dr Phil.