Big Moments in Little Lives: April 2009

April 28, 2009

Things Obama Has Done For Women So Far

JAN 23 Overturned “global gag rule,” which will help re-fund international family-planning groups
JAN 29 Signed Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, restoring women’s ability to sue for pay discrimination
FEB 4 Expanded government health insurance to cover 11 million children
FEB 17 Saved and created jobs in traditionally women-heavy fields—health care, child care and education—in $787 billion economic stimulus package; also increased Medicaid, food stamps and unemployment benefits
FEB 27 Moved to rescind the Bush administration’s “conscience” clause—which could have let health-care workers deny patients abortion and contraception
MAR 2 With the choice of Kathleen Sebelius as Health and Human Services secretary, appointed a total of seven women to Cabinet-level positions
MAR 6 Instituted a new ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues
MAR 9 Lifted restrictions on stem cell research
MAR 11 Established the White House Council on Women and Girls
Restarted U.S. contributions to the United Nations Population Fund
Reinstated low-cost birth control availability at college health centers and at some 400 clinics serving low-income women
MAR 19 Pledged to sign U.N. declaration to decriminalize homosexuality, which Bush refused to sign
MAR 20 Obama appointee Elena Kagan is confirmed as the first woman Solicitor General
APR 3 Obama calls Afghanistan’s proposed Shia Family Law “abhorrent”
APR 23 To date, Obama’s appointments to posts needing Senate confirmation were 32% women with a substantial portion women of color

April 20, 2009

Sunday Stories

I was walking along saying to Keith, "I wonder why they call this Emigration Canyon. Emigration means leaving and they were arriving in Salt Lake." I didn't realize that Sam was listening because he was about 10 feet behind me and he yelled, "I'm ready to emigration!"

(They were emigrating from Nauvoo, Il., by the way, and considered themselves exiles/emigrants.)

Keith was showing Sam how the GPS works and how we can name places/points on our path. Sam named one place "Lake View" because we could see the lake. Then later, at another point, he named it "Unlake View" because we couldn't see the lake.

April 18, 2009

Spring

I don't have any pictures for today, but we have had a fair amount of snow in the past week. It seemed to be late, but not so.

Tonight, as I was putting together the Evite for the May Faire (May 30) this year, I was going through the pictures from last year and I found that it snowed on April 24 last year! Then, on April 27 we started getting our camping stuff out.

It looks like we are on the same schedule again this year!