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Teri and I are thinking about doing a little bit of minor redecorating in the spring, and one of the things we would really like to do is replace some of the lighting fixtures we have in our place.  We have found a website by Farreys.com that sells hundreds of thousands of different lighting fixtures, and we have been spending quite a bit of time looking at the different styles, trying to pick out what we want to buy.

There is a spot in our kitchen over an island that seriously needs lighting. We want to buy a ceiling light strip from the seagull lighting collection from the Farreys.com website. The website says it can be mounted on the ceiling, and I think that would look great in our kitchen. 

In our guest bathroom we want to put in one of the new fine art lamps lighting strips over the vanity. The strip we have now is one of the “showgirl” type of strips that look like garish make-up lamps that Hollywood starlets and Vegas showgirls use.  I’d much rather have a warm ambience to the room, and the Midsummer Nights Dream collection of lamps would pull that off perfectly!

I was interested to read on the Time.com website that last spring Nebraska passed a safe haven law making it legal for parents to abandon their children at Nebraska hospitals. The law strangely forgot to put an age limit on the child, so ever since the law passed dozens of older children (up to age 17) have been abandoned in local Emergency Rooms. What a sad state of affairs that is – for parents of teenagers to drive them to the ER to abandon them! The story says one man drove all the way from Miami Florida to abandon his 11 year old son in Nebraska!

Most of the states that have safe haven laws limit the child’s age to be under one year old. I think the age should be higher than that, maybe up to six or seven years old.  But I do have to wonder about the foster care program, and family support services, wondering why these parents are getting so frustrated with their older children that they can’t get some kind family support services to keep the families intact.  And I read that Nebraska is trying to fix the loophole and put an age limit in, so some parents are rushing to abandon their children before that happens!  Anyway, it’s very sad.