Feminism; It's Liberties and Abuses TBC...

Going to copy and paste this from an email to a friend because I am too lazy to create it again! But I think it will show how I plan to use this blog for some venting and also some dissecting of feminist thought as I learn the workings of it.

"I tried to go to Franciscan but they don't offer an English Master's. I was pretty upset last night after I got the syllabus because we have to read stuff by Margaret Sanger, the major birth control activist and feminist. It is obviously a very liberal bunch of women and I just know it is going to be a cross for me. There is also a beautiful crucifix on the wall and I just look at it and wonder why I am in the class at all. Jon says I should stay so that I know the methods of the liberal pro-contraception , anti-family camp. I just think my heart is too weak to handle hearing the madness. It's all crazy stuff. I already tried to read "Women and Economics" and it's about how we are animals and trade sex for food or something along those dehumanizing lines. It's so illogical really. And the whole feminist movement has turned on itself and exploded, women are not held in higher esteem now that they are dehumanized and treated as sexual objects to be desired and recycled (sometimes literally in pornography, which some feminists defend as empowering women). Anyway I was emotional about it last night and wanted to drop the class more than anything but I think I am going to stay now and just do my best with it all."

So, if you want to know from an insider what kind of propaganda is being dispersed and what reasoning is being used to support it, check back on this blog every once in a while!

Hope you all have a more profitable semester and keep me in your prayers!!

Kid Fare can be Very Different; Translated by Lauren

Rotten Potatoes= Au gratin potatoes

Chicken & Dumpings= Chicken & Dumplings

Cheesebooger= Cheeseburger

Ode to Steubenville

Steubenville oh Steubenville, why is your water undrinkable?
Steubenville oh Steubenville, why is your air unbreathable?
Steubenville Steubenville, oh how I love you.

Would You Clap for a Kiss??

Walking to our apartment..two old grannies sitting on a porch swing nearby...Jon decides to dip me for a kiss...hear a sound after, turn around and see grannies clapping for us!

Lauren Baboren

Found out my best friend has a new name. Sister Agnes Maria. Fits her well but it will take me a lifetime to remember it and to use it! I wonder if she even responds to it now..hehe.. I know when I married Jon I used my maiden name a couple of times by accident. I like Sorenson better than Frigo even though Frigo was easier to spell. And now my name rhymes..Lauren Sorenson..Could be worse, Lauren Soren. Yikes.

Amish Country

Went to Amish country today. Would like to take a ride in a buggy someday. Wished Catholics had some sort of community like that with buggies. Oh well--can't become a heretic just to ride in a buggy!

Laughter is a Gift!

A funny conversation between me and Jon...

Me: NOW I know why you want to homeschool: it's because you want to be the principal!

Jon: Well....that would be nice (smiling)

Lauren: How is this going to work, the teacher and the principal having such a close relationship? It might cause scandal.

Jon: No, it will mean more students for our school!

God's Omnipotence

Do you ever feel a rush of thanksgiving for someone. My sister thinks that I have been some help to her, but really she is a living example of the power of God. He can transform us and easily if we only abandon ourselves to him. I used to look at Mother Theresa (one example among many of the saints!) and think: Wow, it must be so HARD. I bet if I had ever had the opportunity to ask her, she would have said that it was easy, if only God was given everything to do his work. It is when we hold back that we find it hard to love. The Gospel, when lived in our hearts, becomes sweet as Jesus instructs us that his yoke is easy and his burden light. Ah yes counterintuitive you may say.

Power Muscles

Pulled a muscle in my neck lifting weights with the big boys..okay, 10 lbs can do the trick too (and I ONLY lift with my husband!) It's interesting how even the most simple movements can become painful and trigger that "yikes!" feeling. Our theology discussion at the Garlands last night has real meaning now. We agreed that human love is perfected in suffering. So this means that I am going to have really big muscles soon. Very soon.

Blogs only require one thing: They must be quippy

Here we are in Steubenville and I can tell that I am not going to leave the same. A blog sounds like a good way for me to let loose, risk it all, and really WRITE. Hmm..so much for candid writing; I think I must have re-written the last lines five different ways. Must work on being careless.