Houses of Straw
The EU’s delusions about the sufficiency of “soft” power are embarrassingly revealed.
Jenny Hatch
Author Jenny Marie Hatch
NRO: Fred Thompson – Unsafe in America
“Ayaan Hirsi Ali can’t leave her Washington D.C. home without guards.
Born a Muslim in the African nation of Somalia, she was treated as property. Hirsi Ali, though, escaped a marriage, arranged by her father, to a cousin in Canada she’d never met.
Granted exile in the Netherlands, Hirsi Ali rose like cream and was elected to the Dutch parliament. She also wrote a script based on her experience volunteering in battered women’s shelters. There, she learned that her fellow Somali immigrants were maintaining the feudal ways she thought she had left behind.
Filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, the great-grand-nephew of the famous painter, made her movie — but paid for it with his life. His Islamist murderer used a dagger to pin a note, promising Hirsi Ali’s death, to the director’s chest. Unsafe, and unwelcome to many, Hirsi Ali came to America last year and was able to live pretty much like a normal person.”
Healthy Families Make A Healthy World!
WaPo: Charles Krauthammer – Which Is ‘The Real War’?
Which Is ‘The Real War’?
Jenny Hatch
Healthy Families Make A Healthy World!
General Conference April 2007
Today I have been preparing the childrens’ conference packets for our weekend of General Conference.
Most of my blog readers know that our family belongs to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Twice yearly we have a world wide general conference which is available at our meetinghouses over satellite systems, and also cable, Internet, and Radio broadcasts. In Utah it just shows up on Television, but with the internet, listeners can hear the conference in real time.
We have satellite here at home so we enjoy conference in the comfort of our own home and today the children and I have been deep cleaning, shopping, and cooking to make our weekend saturation of conference more comfortable. We don’t do too much besides listen and learn and it is a spiritual feast that recharges me for another six months of living.
Here are some links:
General Conference Broadcast Page
General Young Women Meeting (which was held last saturday. Shelly and Allison and I attended it at the church)
I looked in past issues of the Friend Childrens Magazine for Conference acitivities this year. Here is the link I just hit the search Friend link and typed in Conference and it came up with dozens of links for activities for the children to do. I asked my older teens if they still wanted to do the simple activities during conference and they all said yes, so it is still a big hit at our house, with treat bags, and prizes if they do all the activities.
I also found a couple of activities at this site
I printed out these booklets for the four older children and then put them together.
Here is a picture of those booklets with some other materials, like Conference Bingo:
It is difficult to get children to sit for eight hours over a two day span to listen to long talks about Christ and his gospel. But I have learned that these conference packs along with the treat bags makes our conference weekend zip by, and the children always look forward to our picnics at the park (don’t know if we’ll do them this year though as we have some snow on the ground as I type), and spending time with just our family, no outside distractions. Jeff is twelve now and he will attend the priesthood session with Paul on saturday night while the other children and I stay home and do some easter baking.
I love being able to hear the voices of our modern day prophets in our own home. It is one of the greatest blessings in our life.
Jenny Hatch
Healthy Families Make A Healthy World!
Trip to Denver Zoo 2007
Paul took Ben, Jeff, and Andy down to the Zoo the other day. Ben said his favorite animals were the Spiders.
Jenny Hatch
