Water

Hubby and I watched this movie over a period of a few nights. It was in Hindi, I think. Don't worry, we don't know that language and just read the subtitles. ;-) Based along the river in a poorer section of a city in India, the movie focused on a household of widows. Evidently in the hindu religion, the widows are never allowed to remarry. That could be okay for some, but there are young girls who are "married" without ever having seen their "husbands." So occasionally there is a widow of 8 or 9 years of age. She has no idea what it means to be a wife, much less a widow. All she knows is that she is no longer allowed to live with her family because a man that she has never met has now died. She is shunned from her family and now from society and thrown into a house full of bitter women. How depressing!

I won't give any spoilers, but I have to say that I cannot recommend the movie. It was interesting and sad. There was no hope. Of course there can't be hope without Christ. So the people focused on Ghandi as their savior, but even he could not save them.

Makes me pray more for the lost...

My Classy Daughter

So, Lindsey and Jon went down to Boise to car shop. And they were successful! Today I got to see her driving in her new Volvo S70. She looks SO classy!! It so fits her...

Baby Catcher

Baby Catcher was one of a stack of books I received for my birthday. I just finished reading it today at the pool What a terrible place to be when finishing an absolutely unbelievable book! What will people think when they see me crying in public???

I laughed, I cried, I chuckled, I grinned. I nodded my head during some of the birth stories... Yep, seen that before. Yep, that's what happens next. While author Peggy Vincent lives in the Bay Area of San Francisco, and doesn't usually experience snow, she does deal with other weather problems, like deluges and even earthquakes. So while she described heading out to a birth in a storm so fierce that she could barely see the road in front of her, I can just remember the snow storms that I've ventured into.

Peggy also talks about wanting to help women but having her hands tied due to hospital policies or unaccepted practices. Again, I can totally relate to her frustrations. Frustrations of knowing that a woman knows what she needs to do to birth that particular baby, but she's being told she may not. And even a story at the end of the book when something was done to a woman against her wishes. Big sigh.... all too familiar.

I have to say that this book is right now one of my ALL time favorites!! I can't find the words to express how deeply I *feel* what Peggy Vincent captured. I am so thankful that she took the time to write it. Amazing!

Banana Bread

Whole Wheat Banana Bread

1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 cup mashed bananas
1 t vanilla
2 cups whole wheat flour
1 tsp soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup chopped nuts

Cream the butter and sugar. Add eggs. Add bananas and vanilla. Mix together dry ingredients. Stir dry ingredients into the wet mixture. Grease and flour 9x5 loaf pan. Bake at 350 for at least one hour.

Sweaters, sweaters, sweaters

I finished up 3 sweaters. The pink/green one is knitted from the top down. I don't really like the pattern, so I'm on the search for one I like better. The neck was a bit loose, the sleeves didn't have any variance in size from the top to the bottom. The stripe is my own.... :-) I was hoping this would fit the 10yo, but I'm afraid the 5yo will have to grow into it. And I have enough yarn leftover to knit a baby sweater, if only I could find a nice pattern.


And I began working on matching sweaters for my two grandsons... finished them up this past week. I like the pattern. I've made adjustments, as I think the sleeves are typically too long, so I've shortened them in each sweater I've knitted. You can see the burgundy and green sweaters in previous posts.