My Heart to Yours

Two young boys walk into a pharmacy one day, pick out a box of Tampax and proceed to the checkout counter. The man at the counter asks the older boy, “Son, how old are you?”

“Eight,” the boy replies.

The man continues, “Do you know what these are used for?”

“Not exactly,” the boy says. “But they aren’t for me. They’re for him. He’s my brother. He’s four. We saw on TV that if you use these you would be able to swim and ride a bike. Right now he can’t do either one.”

I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

That is IT!!! I have had it. I can’t take it any longer.

This week I was e-mailed a recent warning about the magazine Redbook’s latest stunt. (Grandma, if you are reading this you need to cancel your subscription). Here is an excerpt from Redbook’s July issue:

In a section titled “Handbook: Your Sex Life,” there are 56 suggestions for how to “feel sexy in a flash!” Here’s the subheading: “Whether you’ve got a free hour and a hot partner in crime to share it with or just a precious few moments to yourself, it’s a snap to unleash your inner vixen with these steamy to-do’s.”

The e-mail I received was a warning and a plea to contact Redbook about this absurdity. This is what I am sick of…. If I continue to be subjected to the lewd subtitles on the covers of women’s fashion magazines every time I stand in line at the grocery stores check out line, I just may give up eating! “How to make him lust for you”, The Most Erotic Way to Unhook Your Bra”, “Sex on the Brain- What the Guys in Your Office are Really Thinking”, G- Spots, C- Spots and now V- Spots”. UGH!!! Have women become nothing more than sex starved junkies looking for a fix? The focus of these articles is always the same: use your “lust- abilities” to get your man.

Suffice it to say, I’m fed up with the negative influences of our culture on women. The magazines, however are only a part of the problem. Add television, movies and music and we are bombarded with smut the moment we wake up to the moment we go to bed. The good news is that Christians are the majority in this country. The bad news is that we have apparently lost our voice because we have become the silent majority. If something is not done to counteract the negative influences in our culture, I fear we could lose an entire generation of young women to the ways of the world.

Please, step up to the plate women and stand for the sake of yourselves and your daughters. Let your voice be heard. I have already sent Redbook and e-mail and made a phone call to discuss my concerns. What will you do to make a difference?

That is what little girls are made of, right?

Here is the other side of my little Angel.

I let her go out to play today and when I came back to check on her a few minutes later this is what she looked like.

Before any of you tell me “the apple doesn’t fall to far from the tree”, I can assure you that I NEVER and I mean NEVER did anything like this when I was little. Mainly, because I would have given my mom a heart attack for getting myself that dirty and for fear of what her white carpet would look like if I stepped one foot into the house. Now my husband…. well that might be another story!

My almost 40 year old husband has the chickenpox. Yes… the chickenpox. Not sure how he got them but I am sure that he is miserable. I have never seen anything like this before in my life. The only thing worse than your husband having the chicken pox is having a mother who says, “Well, I think you had them when you were little but I am not really sure. If you did you had a really mild case of them. Gosh, I just don’t remember.”

AAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!