I've started going back to the YMCA to exercise since my kids have have returned to school and I saw my friend Stacie who was working at the front desk.  I said to her, "HI Stacie, how are you honey!?" "I haven't seen you for a while!" Her personality is always very serious and she never cracks a smile - which  makes me laugh. She said  "I'm good,"  but then she became excited and said very quickly in her usual monotone, "I've lost 18 pounds!" I said, "That's terrific, good job, how did you do it?" She said, "I exercised." I said, "Well, point to the machine you used, that's the one for me!" "It's not here, she said, I go to "Curves."

Alrighty then.

My  friend George attends the parish across town and he always likes to tell me about whats going with the Knights of Columbus. He's a proud member of the K of C and he gets particularly excited when it's Lent as he goes on to describe how he participates in their annual fish fry. George is my grocery sacker, and we chat at least once a week and have done so for many years.

Last week I bought two carts of groceries and George said he would help me to   load them into my car. I said, "It's okay, I know you have other things to do, I can do it," but he insisted, and because I was feeling my age, I relented. I parked my car in the drive-thru lane and he began to move my things but as I got out to help him, he insisted, very sweetly, "You get back in the car, I will do it, besides your going to have to put it all away."  Yeah, your right George, and I should bring you home with me, your very helpful.

Ah, thanks George, your the best!

Then when I was leaving another store, a group of special needs people began to exit their bus. Their leader was a very handsome young man who was making playful walking gestures with his hands and trying to engage the older teens and young adults with his humor. I glanced at him and shot him a smile of approval as he laughed with embarrassment when he noticed that I had been watching him act silly.  Naturally I considered him to be very saintly and felt love at first sight for this man who was apparently as gorgeous on the inside as he was on the outside.

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* "An estimated 92 percent of all women who receive a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome choose to terminate their pregnancies, according to research reviewed by Dr.Brian Skotko, a pediatric geneticist at Children's Hospital Boston."

*Source- ABC news -Susan Donaldson James

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92 percent of these women don't know what they're missing and the world is worse off without these people.

Ana saved a young mans life who had a seizure in the pool this week. I'm so proud of her. I would've  ignored the  teen who went completely still. I have the idea that if a kid is being good, quiet,
or better yet -still,  then you don't bother them. Thank God  Ana thought otherwise.

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Ana -1

Ronald Reagan -77
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Good Job Ana!

If you run over me in the grocery store parking lot with your Chevy Tahoe hybrid, I believe that negates any sort of  eco-virtue you might have gained.

I hope that when I die, I don't end up in hell with virtuous pagans - which by the way, I richly deserve.

You have lots of choices, you get to chose when and where to have sex and with whom but after conception takes place your choices are then over.

Blogging for life.. From conception until natural death.

My steam punk children.

Our son said to me, "WHERE'S LUCY?! WHICH WAY IS LUCY?!  HURRY, WHICH WAY IS LUCY?!

I said, "What in the world are you talking about?  He said, Dad told me - righty tighty - lefty loosey so which way do I turn the wrench because I don't know my left and right.

Sadly, after about a dozen double "A's" the poor boy still  couldn't get his homemade train to work properly and not even after his brainiac sister Maria helped him.

*If you happen to notice the boys toe, he dropped a piece of wood on it when he was helping his Dad build a fire and naturally he didn't have his shoes on at the time. Later on he fell on his face and scraped  his nose   but no matter how much it hurts for me to watch, I'm not going to bubble wrap my boy.

My gym buddy- Stacy and I talked about Christmas and family this morning while I exercised,.. well, she did most of the talking , I simply tried to breath as she told me about how much she loves her nephews and how exciting it will be to fly to Arizona to see them after the holidays. She told me all about the boys and that apparently one of them goes to speech class because he's  artistic.

I love Stacy because every time I visit with her, she acts like shes' glad to see me and she makes me feel special , little does she know.... it's actually the other way around.

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Please consider saying a prayer and or offering something up for our mentally disabled population. They suffer a great deal from the real world and in ways which you can't understand until you live with a person who has some of these issues. These kids know they don't fit and that the real world doesn't appreciate them for who they are and we parents can't take their pain away.  They stand with Christ on the front line, in this battle for our salvation - simply by their existence, as I have come to understand that your fate is decided then and there by the way you treat these people- the least of Gods children.

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Medical ethicist Ronald Green argues that parents have an obligation to avoid 'genetic harm' to their offspring, and Claire Rayner, then a patron of the Downs Syndrome Association, defended testing and abortion saying "The hard facts are that it is costly in terms of human effort, compassion, energy, and finite resources such as money, to care for individuals with handicaps... People who are not yet parents should ask themselves if they have the right to inflict such burdens on others, however willing they are themselves to take their share of the burden in the beginning."

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90% of down syndrome babies are aborted.