Family Blog!!

I have neglected my personal blog in favor of updating our new family blog.

Broken wrists and baby drool…

So 2 weeks ago, I went to turn on a ceiling fan, lost my balance, tumbled on a box and landed on 1 right wrist on the other side. The harrowing results: a broken wrist that couldn’t be set in the ER due to pregnancy, a surgery under general anesthesia a week later after great pains for 6 and 3/4 days prior, and a multi-thousand dollar bill. Also in the aftermath, a mother living with us to deal with a child who has newly evolved into a race-crawler that gets into everything. Even things about 4 feet above her head.

Yeah, life has been interesting these past few weeks! Add to it that I can’t work for 2 months, so our bare bones budget has become bare without any bones. I feel like Mother Hubbard, only – hopefully – not as old. haha

But it’s still fun times with the family. Things could always be worse. I could be 8 months pregnant, having heartburn, have three 9 month old children and have all of this occur. HAH!

Baby #2

New Heavens and New Earth

Another issue I am going to begin discussing here is Preterism (vs. pre-millennial doctrine). I’m going to expound on several of the main points in following posts, but today I’m going to address the one objection to Preterism I hear and read the most.

If Jesus’s words are fulfilled (I tell you the truth, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.) in AD 70 as preterists believe, where is the New Heaven and the New Earth spoken of by Peter? I defer to David Chilton:

According to St. Peter’s second epistle, Christ and the apostles had warned that apostasy would accelerate toward the end of the “last days” (2 Pet. 3:2–4; cf. Jude 17–19)—the forty-year period between Christ’s ascension and the destruction of the Old Covenant Temple in A.D. 70.1 He makes it clear that these latter-day “mockers” were Covenant apostates: familiar with Old Testament history and prophecy, they were Jews who had abandoned the Abrahamic Covenant by rejecting Christ. As Jesus had repeatedly warned (cf. Matt. 12:38–45; 16:1–4; 23:29–39), upon this evil and perverse generation would come the great “Day of Judgment” foretold in the prophets, a “destruction of ungodly men” like that suffered by the wicked of Noah’s day (2 Pet. 3:5–7). Throughout His ministry Jesus drew this analogy (see Matt. 24:37–39 and Luke 17:26–27). Just as God destroyed the “world” of the antediluvian era by the Flood, so would the “world” of first-century Israel be destroyed by fire in the fall of Jerusalem. St. Peter describes this judgment as the destruction of “the present heavens and earth” (2 Pet. 3:7), making way for “new heavens and a new earth” (2 Pet. 3:10).

The Art of Discipline

Recently I have been engaged in a forum discussion concerning discipline. First, know that my presuppositions are that the application of Scripture’s principles to all areas of life is required to live as a Christian. The term would be theonomy: believing that God gives us an answer for every issue in His Word.

That being said, I have been greatly assisted in the practical application of Proverbs by Michael and Debi Pearl of No Greater Joy Ministries. Please note that I do disagree with some of their other teachings, but on the subjects of discipline and submission I find no fault nor find them to stray from Scripture at all.

My first point is to give the verses oft quoted in defense of my position, and the Hebrew definitions behind them.

Withhold not correction from the child for if thou beatest him with the rod he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod and shalt deliver his soul from hell. (Prov. 23:13-14 KJV)

Long Time No See…

I’ve been swampedly busy. Yes, swampedly IS an adjective, though a rarely used one. (In Lizim anyway.)

Reese watched Anne of Green Gables all the way through for the first time, said daaaadaaay the other day (Southern baby for you) and is going to get her picture taken with a lamb in 2 weeks for a small but ridiculously high fee for having a picture taken with a lamb. The price of having a baby and no farm.

She has also taken to loving goaty milk. I have to call it goaty milk or I remember that it comes from goats, the animal I really detest the most of all.

I have had the easiest first few months of a pregnancy as anyone could have, miraculously and wonderfully. Time goes by really fast. I intend to have a homebirth and am glad to save that giant chunk of money. With the new insurance we would have to pay $5,800 vs. the midwife’s $1,800.

A turkey sandwich with my name on it and a Coke await me, so farewell.

BPA – Science vs. Many Zeroes on the End of a Dollar Sign

 

Fast Company Magazine had a fantastic 9 page article written in their February 2009 issue by David Case.

I always suspect conspiracy and money when I hear about government agencies deciding one way or another, but this article confirms my suspicions. In a nutshell, the argument against BPA which is found lining canned foods, in plastic baby bottles, containers, cell phones, DVDs, CDs, etc. (it’s an ingredient in polycarbonate which is a near shatterproof plastic) has been put into 2 camps: scientists who simply study the effects of what happens when BPA is around and scientists and panels of people whose paychecks pretty much come from donations and fees from industry producers of BPA – and they get pretty nice paychecks.

Health – Eating, Breathing and Drinking

It’s funny – I was flooded with hilarious (though not at the time!) memories after reading one of my husband’s cousin’s notes on Facebook. She recalls not having sugary cereals or Kraft singles – and remarks at the very end how she is doing the same now that she’s a mom. I recall that I was about 5 before my mother was unable to keep a grain of sugar out of my mouth (a friend gave me a lollipop which I POPPED right in before my mother could take it from me graciously) and how until I was 13, we did not even have actual sugar in our house. I remember eating several odd things over the years:

Tofu burgers (which have the consistency of wallpaper paste)

Tofu Chili (which isn’t that bad, though lacks a good bit of flavor)

Soy Milk (which we now know isn’t so good for us)

Rice Milk (which was runny)

Almond Milk Cheese (I don’t know how to milk an almond but I’m not sure I want to know)

Soy Milk Cheese (which doesn’t melt even when said child attempts to light a fire to it)