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We arrived at the Fitzkees' house on Thursday night, and Nick said we could stay as long as we wanted. We ended up extending our trip by a day and coming home on Tuesday, which was a good decision. I think we spent the right amount of time for the whole family to enjoy the ... (More)

Posted by jondaley on August 20, 2010, 8:48 pm
Category: General, Jonathan, Noah, Faith

2010 Family Bike Trip to Washington, DC: Third Day

As I looked at the maps for the third day, we were going to be biking near various battlefields and other tourist-type places to visit, and so in the interest of resting a little, I decided we should drive for a ways and then maybe bike in the afternoon. We drove from Williamsport... (More)

Posted by jondaley on August 20, 2010, 5:25 pm
Category: General, Jonathan, Noah, Faith

Notes from the Pocket

6/28 - Noah's fourth birthday! New nephew born! Faith says, "yoo" (balloon) Some more Faith words: "adj-yih" = chocolate; "nah-nih" = napkin; "ow-dih" = towel; "yeh" = leg 7/2 - Jonathan, "Know what I want to be... (More)

Posted by joyful on July 6, 2010, 9:11 pm
Category: Jonathan, Noah, Faith

High Fructose Corn Syrup

We generally try to avoid corn syrup of all kinds (but we only "try", meaning it isn't banned or anything like that). But, when I'm looking for cereal or granola bars or whatever, I check the ingredients and particularly try to gauge if sugar (in whatever form) would be the first... (More)

Posted by jondaley on June 11, 2010, 9:16 am
Category: Reviews

Pocket Notes

6/1 - Noah's use of /f/ in everyday speech has increased immensely and he now uses it in a substitution. 3 = "free" 6/1 - Jonathan cut Faith's bangs "because she asked me to." Forgot that part about asking Mom or Dad... He actually did a good... (More)

Posted by joyful on June 10, 2010, 4:22 pm
Category: Jonathan, Noah, Faith

The Best Job In The World

Here's my take on the biking/camping trip. With last year's notes, it was actually pretty fun planning camping meals for 14 people, the vast majority of which are young men. I only made two mistakes, one was forgetting oil for the eggs (we used some butter from the mountain pie... (More)

Posted by joyful on May 25, 2010, 8:03 pm
Category: General

Biking Prelude #7

From me: Greetings, I beseech you in the name of the fair gravel god Macadam . The town crier has informed us, the royal court, that some of you minions scoffed at my prior references to the presumed conflict between the bipedaled beasts and steel plated goblins, and so we hereby... (More)

Posted by jondaley on May 25, 2010, 10:52 am
Category: General

Biking Prelude #2

From Billy: Hail thou brave and mighty Alex...and other revered members of the Assembly: You have returned from the halls of scholasticia not a moment too soon. We have long awaited the coming of a valiant warrior as yourself who would dare to make the perilous... (More)

Posted by jondaley on May 25, 2010, 10:27 am
Category: General

Miscarriage

I didn't really feel like writing this, but then I thought it weird not to post it. So I'll mostly just copy the emails I wrote to our parents. This is happening at five weeks of pregnancy, pretty much just two days after being sure I was pregnant (though we did not take a... (More)

Posted by joyful on May 12, 2010, 3:35 pm
Category: Pregnancy

Total Church: Children and Young People

The authors quote some statistics of how many children leave the church never to come back, and particularly notes some examples of where churches had "junior church" for the kids, and while it was fun and entertaining when they were young, when the kids were old enough to attend... (More)

Posted by jondaley on April 12, 2010, 10:42 am
Category: Reviews

Total Church: Pastoral Care

I am not sure what I think about this chapter. The authors argue for Christian pastoral care within a communal setting, as opposed to the "professional" counseling. I have heard of a couple stories of people violently against that idea, though I haven't seen anything bad... (More)

Posted by jondaley on April 8, 2010, 3:57 pm
Category: Reviews

Dominican Republic: Meeting God in Missions

So, as most of you know, in March I went on my first ever short-term mission trip to Hato Mayor in the Dominican Republic with college students from Penn State, University of Pittsburgh and a handful from other places. It is almost a month later, and I've been meaning to write down... (More)

Posted by jondaley on April 5, 2010, 10:49 pm
Category: Reviews

Total Church: Social Involvement

Partly due to doing things with my family and partly due to catching up at work after last week of very little work, I haven't read much lately, and then when I did read, it was late at night, and figured I'd wait until I was in front of a computer to blog about it, rather than using the phone... (More)

Posted by jondaley on April 2, 2010, 9:30 pm
Category: Reviews

Total Church: Why Gospel? Why Community?

It's definitely a telling commentary on my life that the first chapter of Total Church , "Why Gospel?" was less exciting to me than the following chapter, "Why Community?". I think the former is in my head only, where the latter is in my head and heart. ... (More)

Posted by jondaley on March 20, 2010, 10:31 am
Category: Reviews, Bible

Checkups

I'll start with most recent and then go to my pocket notes. Jonathan and Faith both had well child checkups yesterday. As much as it seems like it would be easier to have two checkups together, it really isn't. I'll go back to scheduling them separately. It wasn't too... (More)

Posted by joyful on December 2, 2009, 12:29 pm
Category: Jonathan, Faith