1.

All week the children kept telling me about their onions that had yellow flowers. We do have some stragglers of green onions still in the garden, and they keep bringing me fistfuls of yellow weeds, so I thought that’s what they were talking about.

Nope. My daffodils (planted last year and forgotten) are blooming! And despite being transplanted about 8 times (current home: inside a broken globe), they aren’t dead yet, either. Daffodil bulbs do look like onions!

2.

My baby loves bluegrass.  It happened to come on PBS the other day and she was instantly captivated.  I’ve been playing it for her on YouTube – she dances, claps, then tries to climb inside the screen to kiss Alison Krauss.  So funny!

3.

Best prolife video I’ve seen:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42caJw6FZjc&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

H/T Erin at And Sometimes Tea

4.

Another child has died at the hands of parents following the methods of Michael and Debi Pearl.  When will the Christian and homeschool community hold them accountable?  Tulipgirl has links; Mommylife’s following the story, too.

If you do business with Pearl supporters (i.e., The Old School House magazine) won’t you please contact them and ask them to drop them?  Michael Pearl’s latest response is that he is LAUGHING at all the people criticizing his “God’s method of child training.”  No, Michael, hitting 4 month olds, shoving toddlers into ponds, and beating 4 year olds all night long is not God’s training method.

5.

I love these 10 Rules for Writing Fiction lists.

My particular favorites are:

You most likely need a thesaurus, a rudimentary grammar book, and a grip on reality. – Margaret Atwood

The first 12 years are the worst. – Anne Enright

6.

Another food recall: Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein.  It’s in dips and dressings and probably everything else at the grocery store, too.  List of recalled HVP products, including organic dressing.

7.

The Texas primary is over, and Rick Perry is going to be the Republican candidate.  There are worse people who could have gotten, I suppose, though I’m not a die-hard Perry fan.  He beat Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.  Hutchison ran some really, really lame ads at the end of the campaign – basically criticizing Perry for living in the governor’s mansion (at taxpayer expense!)  Wonder where she planned to live, had she won?