Life Is But a Dream

Just about two minutes ago, this happened...

Ladan (singing): "Row, row, row your boat, gently down the street. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life falls a dream."

Me: "Life is but a dream. That's how it goes."

Ladan: "No, Mom, Life FALLS a dream. It's not a butt dream." The funny thing is that we don't use the word "butt" in our house, so it made me laugh when he appeared so concerned that I would suggest singing a song including such profanity! :)

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And last week, he was singing the song about the house built on the rock. It went something like this...

"The rains came down, and the fuzzes came up. The rains came down, and the fuzzes came up. The rains came down, and the fuzzes came up, and the house on the rock stood firm! Yea!!"

Oh, gracious! I guess we need to do some instruction about floods again! :)

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And, on a fairly unrelated note, my sister-in-law, Amber, has started a series on family planning issues on her blog. She has asked me to work with her to share some of the research we've done over the last 5 years. We have both had a lot of people asking us about it, and we know a lot of people that we wish knew more about it before they make decisions... so we're using this forum to share what we've found and to begin discussions. Our hope is that this can be a resource for people in the future, including ourselves. I'll be posting the entries here on my blog as well, so stay tuned. On that note, if there are specific things you've found or specific questions you have, feel free to let me know in advance.

And, if you're a teen or younger, please make sure you have your parents read those entries first. They will all have the words "Family Planning" in the title. Since these are topics that parents need to be in charge of sharing with their kids, I don't want to get in the way of that. However, if your parents read the entries and feel like it's appropriate for you to read them as a supplemental resource, then I'm all for that.