I would like to submit a challenge to the youth these days. I challenge all to limit, if not erradicate, the use of the words (fillers) "like", "uh" and "um". I realize that uh and um are not actual words but I feel as if they are being used as such in todays vocabulary. My father once challenged me to take note of how many times I used "like" in a conversation. It has made me very aware of how I speak. Sadly to say that I have thought of this recently because I watched the Teen Miss USA out of sheer curiosity. Painful!

Just something that sends a chill down my spine. Cosmo Girl? Cosmo for Girls? Young girls going to the people of cosmopolitan magazine to find out about their bodies? Cosmopolitan magazine's quiz this month "Do you make a HOT first impression?" says so much to me about where this will lead the young ladies. So wrong. All I can do is hope that I can be the kind of woman who can counteract that influence on the girls that I may meet in my life. The only way to a healthy body image is to understand that we are made in the image of God.... and Cosmo Girl won't be letting them in on that, I'm sure.

Two dogs up for trade. Looking to trade my two well-behaved dogs for one child, well-behaved or not. Pardon me but I've had too much wine. Even the women on shallow Sex and the City are having children. How can it be that a girl who always knew she wanted to be a mother could grow up to be a woman who can't have children? What is it that I am supposed to do now? Sure, there is always adoption, but what is the point of suffering through the pain each month when those organs who cause the pain don't do their job.I ask the Father for a child and I know His answer is sometimes "No." How do you deal with the "No."?