I kind of hate that woman.

Kat, Tree Pose Noah is adorable!! Speaking of which, do you want a copy of Itsy-Bitsy Yoga that Ethan got free from work? It might be a bit dumbed-down for you, but it's all about doing yoga with a toddler.

YES! I can't wait for Noah to be old enough to go to yoga to do it! There is a toddler class at one of the 4 studios I go to.

K and Noah are at the beach today (after dropping me off at work). Keep in mind it's way overcast and chilly. But she called me to tell me that she saw a guy catch a shark (!!) and try to wrangle him off his fishing line and back into the ocean. Then she called back and said she saw a pod of dolphins.

I'm so jealous of her beach going experience. Stupid work.

Hm. I googled. The exact quote is different, but the spirit is the same: "He who spareth the rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him correcteth him betimes" (Proverbs 13:24)

The exact quote is different, but the spirit is the same: "He who spareth the rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him correcteth him betimes" (Proverbs 13:24)

Huh, interesting. (That "correct" is apparently equivalent to "hit with a stick," I mean. Not much middle ground there!)

We had the best, fastest, easiest veg last night. We sauteed diced onion and shredded cabbage (we were too lazy to shred, so we just used coleslaw mix) and added curry powder and a bit of soy sauce. Delicious, and I am not usually a cabbage fan!

"He who spareth the rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him correcteth him betimes"

So it's OK to hit boys, but no mention of girls?

Is this sorta' how all the biblical prohibitions against homosexuality only mention men?

Duuuuude.....

3 accused of using corpse head to smoke pot

Jones claimed he and his friends used shovels to dig up the body and removed the corpse's head with a garden tool, Adkins said. Jones also revealed he and the other two boys took the severed head to the juvenile's home, where they used the skull as a "bong" to smoke marijuana, the officer said.

Jones claimed he and his friends used shovels to dig up the body and removed the corpse's head with a garden tool, Adkins said. Jones also revealed he and the other two boys took the severed head to the juvenile's home, where they used the skull as a "bong" to smoke marijuana, the officer said.

Okay, if you're high enough to think this is a good idea? YOU ARE SMOKING TOO MUCH POT.

Is this sorta' how all the biblical prohibitions against homosexuality only mention men?

I'm pretty certain that there's only one direct biblical prohibition against homosexuality: You shall not lie with a man the lyings of a woman, it is an abomination. I remember a bunch of discussion of what "the lyings of a woman" actually means. There are a bunch of rabbis who've interpreted that to mean that anything except anal sex is OK.

So I googled blanket training. The first link is to a mom blog about being a mother of 8. The second link is about a woman who wished she had known this before she had her 7th kid.

Is there a connection between blanket training and breeding a basketball team?

Isn't 41 getting pretty high risk?

Yes, pretty high. Down Syndrome is just the first/most obvious risk at that age.

I am keeping my mouth and fingers firmly shut on the matter of whether these particular... individuals should continue breeding the way they are, but as a pregnant-at-37/birthed-at-38 person I kinda want to clarify some of the risk stuff.

Short answer: It all depends.

Slightly longer answer: At around 40 your Down's risk does go up by some alarming factor; IIRC, it doubles. But the under-40 risk for an otherwise healthy woman with no genetic red flags is 1% anyway, so even though the risk doubles past 40 it still means that 98 out of 100 of post-40 moms will have non-Down's babies.

And it can vary further depending on your personal history, family history and blood work. Some women are low-fertility and high-risk from their early 20s on (a lot don't get diagnosed until their mid to late 30s because they don't start TTC until then, but often the problems would have been diagnosed earlier if they'd started earlier); I know of at least one late-30s pregnant woman whose risk was assessed, after all the numbers were crunched by a team of OBs and geneticists, as approximately the same as that of a healthy woman in her late 20s.

So, in short, the risks go up but it's more random and less doomy than it seems; between the genetic counseling we got and the masses of reading I did at the time, it looks like, if you're otherwise healthy with no risk factors besides your age, by the time the risk of serious birth defects becomes statistically significant you're going to be old enough that conceiving at all is increasingly unlikely.

Not saying anything about that couple and their army of offspring. Not. Not.