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Today is Oscar’s birthday. We can’t believe that it has been a full year since his hurried arrival at RPA hospital!

Oscar is celebrating today by playing with his new bus and fire truck, and eating mushed-up Weet Bix. Tonight we will continue our family tradition by taking him out to a restaurant of his choice.

On Saturday he had a great party, celebrating with friends and families his greatest milestone yet. But the attention is fleeting… his sister Liana has her party in only three days’ time!

So Tony Wilson thinks it’s OK for schools to teach that God doesn’t exist, but not OK for them to teach that he does (http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/01/06/1073268031323.html). If he was genuinely committed to atheism then he would welcome the opportunity for his world-view to compete with the other philosophical and religious “truths”.

If we want to provide our children with a balanced and well-rounded education, then we need to resist the secularist pressure to censor religious teaching in our schools.

In a world full of drugs, our society has given approval to certain substances over others. Heroine is illegal yet nicotine is not. Marijuana is forbidden, alcohol is permitted. Amphetamines are out, yet caffeine is in. So, choosing from the legal options before me, my stimulant of choice is caffeine.

You can imagine my excitement to read that coffee is in fact good for me! In today’s Sydney Morning Herald, (http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/01/07/1073268070789.html), a US study is quoted as saying that “people who gulp several cups of coffee a day can greatly lower their risk of developing diabetes later in life.”

Feels like time for a coffee, wouldn’t you say? Not that I really needed any excuse…!