I reviewed Bella last year. Touching movie.

This is from BreakPoint about Bella being used in prisons with some heartwarming results:

Since the movie won the People’s Choice Award in 2007 at the Toronto Film Festival, and was released later that year, efforts have been underway to get the movie into all crisis pregnancy centers across America. But according to an article in the National Catholic Register, new efforts are underway to get this life-changing film into prisons across America. The cook, Jose, is a great example of a man whose life has been devastated by a mistake, but who has used that mistake to turn his life around and do something redemptive with the days he has left. I think this film could have just as big an impact in the prison community as it has in the community of crisis care, where initial reports say that over 100 people have contacted the Bella production company to say that they decided to keep their baby as a result of seeing the film.

Did you like it?

I thought it was pretty good.

*sigh*

I got home and sat down at the computer with a snack to go through Google Reader for the first time since about 5 a.m.

One of the early blogs I hit had 17 posts! Remember that’s just since 5 a.m. I may hit 17 posts some weeks

But when I have hundreds of feeds pop up, I always go to my favorites first to see what they have going on. I’m frequently amazed at the depth of comments and the conversations that happen after the post. TC and Nick both frequently get great comments that turn into really good conversations. Peter has one today. Thirty-nine comments when I hit it. It’s on heaven and when Christians will arrive at the pearly gates. Very good discussion!

OK, in secondary math, they came to me with this knowledge. Oh, I wish I’d had a camera.

My one day lesson will now be two.

From the New Yorker:

I am not a fan of books. I would never want a book’s autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books. I like to get information from doing stuff like actually talking to people and living real life.
—Kanye West, promoting his book “Thank You and You’re Welcome.”

I think I’ll help him out and not buy his.

Our youngest son had an emergency appendectomy in the middle of the night. No word yet on how he is.



The workshop I went to last week was for a program called CHAMPS.

C – conversation

H – help

A – activity

M – movement

P – participation

There is a routine for everything during the day. Well, I already had a routine for everything during the day, but I hadn’t written them down much less in this form. So that’s what I’ve been doing this evening.

Each chart spans two pages (+ the line for S which is at the end of the document) and I’m going to cut and paste them onto double sized construction paper and have them laminated. I keep thinking I’ve forgotten something . . .