We're watching one of my family's favorite Christmas movies, "A Muppet's Christmas Carol". So much fun.

The problem with the LGBTGQ+ stuff, especially the transgenderism, is they are telling kids they were born into the wrong body and have to take hormones, hormone blockers, and have surgery to have value and be the way "they should be". They have to chemically or surgically castrate themselves to have worth. That is the most unloving, hateful, and harmful thing I've ever heard being taught to kids. True gender affirming care is telling a kid they are the way they are supposed to be. God doesn't make mistakes and they are not a mistake. The world has become brain dead if they don't understand this.

Kids have no idea what they are doing to themselves and how this is going to effect their future. Kids aren't allowed to drink or smoke but are allowed to chop off body parts and sterilize themselves. It is insane.

Schools teach secular humanism. Sadly almost nobody realizes they are teaching a religion. They think they are the enlightened ones who have moved beyond religion when they are the ones most held back by their religion. They also try to destroy all apostates to secular humanism (and its cousin, wokism).

Homeschooling was one of the best decisions of my life.

That works. We are celebrating Christmas with family early. It helps because we don't have to drive 3 times to another state to p/u and drop off my son and for family celebrations. It also allows me to have my cake and eat it too. I get to celebrate with extended family, but I also get to celebrate at home with my immediate family and go to Christmas services at my church. Win-win.

The underwear on the inside is good, but I hate the brooding, hateful new superman. Clark is supposed to be happy go lucky, kind, and awkward, while superman is supposed to be self sacrificing. The new superman is the opposite of what he should be. It is sad, other than wonder woman, the new D.C. super heroes are all pretty unlikeable.

I've been using GetAlby to login to various clients: Coracle, Satellite, and Snort. Alby logs in so I don't have to use my private key.

I am setting up another computer and logged into getalby on the new computer. It logged in and shows my balance, but I can't get it to link to any of the websites to log me into my account. I put my npub into one of the clients (Coracle), so I can see my feed, but I can't post or interact. What am I doing wrong?

I 2nd this request.

I had a steak, shitake, and tillamook cheddar omelet for lunch yesterday and will probably haven another today. Mmmm.

I season my eggs with sea salt, fresh ground pepper, garlic powder, tumeric (and in this case a little chipotle pepper powder). My omelets are full of flavor.

Drinking too much water, especially water without minerals can cause all kinds of problems. I like RO water, but I've been adding salt/minerals to my water to help.

In the Grand Canyon, they have to helicopter out more people because they drank too much water and didn't replace their electrolytes than they do for those not drinking enough water.

I take it every day and haven't had any night cramps in years.

Congratulations. Being a mother is wonderful.

Breast feeding is healthiest for you and your baby and is more convenient (if you are home with the baby). It also saves in an emergency. I flew once with my first son and we missed the connecting flight home. Since I was breast feeding, I had all the milk he needed. If I'd been feeding him with a bottle I'd have been dragging a baby in a cab to stores near midnight trying to get formula.

Teaching your baby to sleep without your help and even if there are noises will help life get back to normal and serve your child well. I recommend the book "Baby Wise" for more details. The basics are feed on a schedule. Feed your baby when you wake him up and not to get him to sleep. We were replacing the driveway and front porch of our house that had sunk when I brought home my first. We had ground compactors pounding for the first couple of days, and he learned to sleep through all of it.

Remember that babies and young kids are tougher than you can imagine. I've had mine dive off the couch onto their face and try to roll off a changing table and they were all fine. Be careful, but don't worry.

There are 2 theories on keeping a baby well. One is to protect the baby from all germs. The other is to expose their immune system to lots of germs and pets to train their immune system to recognize pathogens and self. Studies have shown that being around pets (and therefore germs) reduces the incidence of allergies & asthma. I went with the latter and my son's only fever in his first 5 years was caused by a vaccine.

I researched vaccines on conventional sites, but with a holistic view. I decided on my first son to only give him the dTap vaccine and not till 1 years old. He only got 2 instead of the normal 5/6 . I did that one because I was afraid of tetanus which can be deadly, but I've since learned that tetanus is anaerobic and if you get a puncture wound to bleed and get peroxide into the wound, it isn't much of a risk. His only illness in his first 5 years were due to the vaccine. If I had it to do over again, I'd not give him any. I'd argue that zero vaccines is best, but at minimum, skip the vaccines at 2 & 4 months when the babies immune system isn't developed enough to respond well and when the dose/weight is higher. If you do your research, the danger of the vaccines is higher than the danger of the illness.

I had the educated guess that the adjuvants in vaccines were causing the huge increase in allergies and autoimmune diseases. I later read an article and the same form of aluminum used in vaccines is used in animal studies to cause autoimmunity for autoimmunity studies.

Once your child gets older, I believe nothing is better for your child than homeschooling. Before kids I though I'd homeschool in elementary and maybe middle school and send them to high school to transition to the real world. I've since changed my mind. Both of my kids were in public school for part or all of elementary school (but I live in a very conservative area with less indoctrination and there is less in the early years to begin with). I pulled my eldest out in 3rd grade and homeschooled him through highschool. He is now in college in the honors program with tuition paid based on his 35/36 ACT score. I pulled my younger son, who has Down Syndrome, later because he was harder to school and because he was taught by people I knew and trusted. He is making better progress now that I am homeschooling him.

Babies don't understand things like falling off a height. Find opportunities for your kid to fail and fall where the consequences are minor, so they can learn without severe consequences. So often people protect a baby from any place they can fall even 6 inches and they don't learn to be careful around heights. This same principle exists when they get older with real life lessons such as being honest, being a good friend, being responsible, etc.

They predicted we'd all die from global cooling and then the climate warmed.

They predicted we'd all die from the hole in the ozone, but then that went away.

They predicted we'd all die from global warming, but the globe quit warming for the past 20 years (if you use satellites instead of the adjusted values), so they changed the claim to climate change killing us.

They predicted we'd go back to stone age because of peak oil and now we have more known oil reserves than when the predictions were made 50ish years ago.

Has there been one dread prediction that has ever been even close to true?

I love pecans, but I seem to have gotten a mild sensitivity to all nuts (probably from eating too many of them in the past). They seem to cause some mild inflammation that interferes with my sleep and causes me to toss and turn. Of course, these day it seems like everything interferes with my sleep.

My eldest is off at college with a scholarship that pays for his tuition and another $4000 toward room and board because he is in the honors program getting a double major in math and computer science. In his senior year in high school he got Math Student of the Year at the local community college. I'd say homeschooling worked well for him.

I'm still schooling my youngest, but he is different. He has Down Syndrome and so needs a lot more work. I'll probably home school him till 21. He did 7th grade twice (at my request in public school) and is doing 9th twice at home. We'll probably do 10th twice, 11th twice, and 12th twice to try to catch him up (or close) to his peers. He is making more progress at home than he did in the public school even though he was with some amazing teachers, two of three of them were the husband and wife who run his special needs after school program where he gets OT and speech therapy and they have adopted a bunch of autistic and down syndrome kids. They are amazing, but they can't do with a classroom what I can do one on one in less time.

I guess you can tell I am a HUGE homeschool proponent.

I've thought for a long time that schools focusing on memorizing facts was a waste of time in today's world where most any fact can be found in a minute or two. We need to teach kids how to think, not what to think.

I love the transformation recommended in this article:

Our focus needs a fundamental shift:

From Instructionism → Constructionism

From Convergent thinking → Divergent thinking

From Information → Imagination

From Content → Skills

If kids thought this way, they would be harder to indoctrinate which is probably why they aren't taught to think this way.

https://medium.com/@connect_75384/the-end-of-education-94f3a39fe97c

The one time I got to visit Australia for work, I extended the trip for a little sight seeing. I did numerous hikes in nowhere land during the week in areas that might not have another person set foot on that trail for several days. Looking back, I wondered if that was a good idea. Not only could I have slipped and fell and hurt myself, but I also might have been bitten by one of your very poisonous snakes. This was also before I carried a cell phone, so I had no way to call for help.

The good news is I survived, saw lots of great sights, and had a great time. The bad news is that my house burnt down in 2015 and all of my pictures burnt up in the fire, so all I have is my memories.

When we are looking, we can find blessings even in the darkest times. In fact we may find more blessings in the hard times than when everything seems to be going well.

Even just the spike proteins and mRNA look like they can transfer to the baby in utero and through breast milk. When you add the DNA plasmids and the SV40 promoter genes, it gets really scary.

About a year ago we were going to eat out and I was craving a steak, but didn't want to pay steakhouse prices. We went to Denny's where I can get a 14 oz T-bone for $17. With the sides, that is 2 meals for me ($8.50). I have learned I have to order the steak rare to get a proper medium rare steak. It isn't as good as a good steakhouse steak, but it is quite tasty (now that I learned to order it rare). We now eat a Denny's steak about once a month (maybe slightly more) when we need to eat out.

FYI, my husband went to Taco Bell last week and it cost him $11. A 14 oz t-bone at $17 is so much better of a deal especially if you can stretch it into 2 meals.

The DNA (at least some of it) is promoter genes from the SV40 virus (Simian Virus 40) that was found in small pox vaccines (because the virus was grown in contaminated monkey cells). Many cases of cancer today have SV40 virus in them and it is believed that SV40 causes cancer. A section of genes in the SV40 virus act as promoter genes and are used in growing viruses and/or genetic substances. If these promoter genes get integrated in your DNA, they can promote other genes and make them more likely to go cancerous. I think there is other DNA as well, but the SVR40 promoter genes are what is mostly being discussed.