Found this on Christianity Today’s website today. I found it pretty touching. So let’s use this as an opportunity for discussion topic shall we? Have you/would you ever consider adopting a child from another country? Would you adopt a special needs child? A child of another race? What about the adoption needs in our own country,

This afternoon the new issue of RELEVANT Magazine hit my mailbox. I gave it the usual quick once-over, but this time I noticed something. I was thoroughly underwhelmed with the prospect of reading the new issue. I used to be excited when the new issue of RELEVANT arrived, but today my reaction was a barely

Team Bertou is fully geeked on seeing Pixar’s latest film WALL•E when it hits theaters this weekend. Pixar never disappoints us with their ridiculously creative stories and jaw-dropping animation, and WALL•E already looks like a solid candidate for the “1,000 Views Club” in our household (see also: Finding Nemo, Cars and The Incredibles). I came across

Little Joseph had his first “real food” yesterday! All of our boys have wanted to start eating solid foods around four months, and he had gotten to the point of getting frustrated when we were eating, so it seemed like the right time to introduce it to him. He had rice cereal, and loved it!

Recently I was helping my oldest son with a bit of Algebra, he’s a 7thgrader so the Algebra is pretty basic, basic enough for me to still remember.  We were both getting frustrated because he couldn’t understand how to do the problem and I couldn’t explain it appropriately, or well enough so that he couldunderstand.

Same-sex marriage law focus of efforts Mormon church leaders will ask California members to join the effort to amend that state’s constitution to define marriage as being between a man and a woman. In May, California’s Supreme Court overturned a voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, saying gays could not be denied civil marriage licenses. “The church’s teachings and

Dobson accuses Obama of ‘distorting’ Bible Excerpt - “COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - As Barack Obama broadens his outreach to evangelical voters, one of the movement’s biggest names, James Dobson, accuses the likely Democratic presidential nominee of distorting the Bible and pushing a “fruitcake interpretation” of the Constitution.” Go Dobson!

Recently, I purchased a copy of “The Green Book”, written by Thomas Kostigen and Elizabeth Rogers, at my local Wal-Mart store. While this was not the book I had originally been searching for (I went to find “Living Like Ed”, by Ed Begley, Jr.), this book was still an enjoyable read and a handy guide

So here’s how this works.  Anyone/everyone please comment about things that are oddly enough probably representative of the majority of population and/or odd things most everyone must have thought of at some time in their life.  I will collect the most interesting, creative, and true-to-life comments and keep updating this post with the clever suggestions. 

Well, I had some business I had to attend to that didn’t afford me the opportunity to blog yesterday. It was a tough situation and it’s not over yet. When I faced with this situation, I knew it wasn’t going to be easy and in some ways would be scary. I left after my initial