Mane Highlights for 7-5-2013

Reflection of the Week: Freedom to be Free

While I am so very thankful to have known nothing other than this freedom in my lifetime, I have often wondered at what I have read, seen on television, or heard retold from the mouths of refugees who for much of their lives had never known this way of living existed.  So many people from my grandparents generation lived through grisly times, from the holocaust to communism.  Continue

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Project of the Week: Waterproof Cloth Diaper Covers

This week's project completes the three part series on D.I Y. cloth diapers!  These waterproof cloth diaper covers used with cloth or disposable inserts are made with an adjustable Velcro strip for quickly securing a diaper on a squirmy baby.

To learn how: http://lionofdesign.blogspot.com/2013/07/waterproof-cloth-diaper-cover.html

Gallery Piece of the Week: Social Justice

Social Justice can be obtained only in respecting the transcendent dignity of man.

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Chic of the Week: A Woman's Work

The role of housewife and mother has taken many turns throughout our country's history.  As society continues to change and evolve, so do each of our roles in it, and with that our responses to the challenges put forth.  One of these most remarkable turns was during World War II.  Continue

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New Find, New Friend, New Trend: Red, White, and Blue Ice Cream Sandwiches 

Ummmm, yes please!  These home made ice cream sandwiches are an awesome way to incorporate fruit, vanilla ice cream, and chocolate cake.  They can also be made healthier if you make your own ice cream and make the fudge cake from scratch rather than a box mix.

Check out:http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/red-white-and-blue-ice-cream-sandwiches/93d4d853-1e01-4abb-adb0-007bd83743d4

Dynamic Quote: Securing Liberty

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.  

~Thomas Paine

I leave you with this until next week: Who Started the...Fireworks?

John Adams wrote that the Fourth of July "...ought to be celebrated by pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other..."