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Yesterday, Noah poked a coat hanger into his eye. All is well now, but I wanted to post the adventure. My mom wrote up the story after my phone conversation with her, so I'm going to paste that here to save typing. I'll interject where I want to add details or... (More)

Posted by joyful on June 14, 2007, 4:07 pm
Category: Noah

The Report: Jonathan "Drives" A Backhoe

Just before 7:00 this morning, I thought I heard some sounds, so looked out the window to see a pickup truck but no backhoe. The backhoe arrived just after 7 and Jonathan watched out the window while I got ready for the day. Daddy said we could go out to look before breakfast since... (More)

Posted by joyful on May 24, 2007, 2:04 pm
Category: Jonathan

Spears, Reading, Boggle

5/7 - "Mommy, we don't see people with spears too much." Cell phones, yes, spears, no. 5/10 - I was doing some reading on the laptop and scrolling with the arrows. First Jonathan noticed that when I pressed the down arrow, the page went up, and vice versa, and... (More)

Posted by joyful on May 12, 2007, 7:12 pm
Category: Jonathan

Car Accident on Penn Avenue

I am up late working on some code, and all of a sudden there is a really loud noise, and I look out my window and watch a car turn kind of sideways and roll over. As far as I can tell there wasn't a second car involved, but I don't know what could have happened to make him flip... (More)

Posted by jondaley on May 11, 2007, 12:18 am
Category: General

It's Not A Thankless Job

Jonathan and I were drawing and coloring together downstairs. At one point, I had written his name, and then when we were cutting things, I cut a heart out around his name. Soon after, I went to change Noah's diaper. I heard Jonathan say, "How do you spell... (More)

Posted by joyful on April 14, 2007, 1:05 pm
Category: Jonathan

Climbing, Writing, Quotes

March 20 - Jonathan climbed over our chain link fence all by himself. March 22 - He was pretending that his cereal was "vitamins" and counting them out to himself, "It's Saturday [eat one]...it's Monday [eat one]...it's Wednesday [eat one]...it's... (More)

Posted by joyful on April 10, 2007, 8:57 pm
Category: Jonathan

Random Recent Things All In One Post

We went to Florida for vacation with the Daleys for one week and the Wightmans for another week. It was a great time. But this leaves me behind on posting, so here we go... On one of our many walks in Clearwater Beach, Jonathan was walking along with a little stick hanging out of... (More)

Posted by joyful on March 18, 2007, 4:16 pm
Category: General, Jonathan, Noah

Bible Quiz

You scored as NASB - New American Standard Bible . You are intelligent, responsible, and understanding. You strive to do your best possible in all areas of life and are generally quite successful. You do not mind being different and sometimes taking risks, but you simultaneously find no... (More)

Posted by jondaley on March 9, 2007, 11:26 am
Category: Bible

Home Owners For Real!

Yesterday, I mailed the payoff check for our mortgage. This is very exciting for us. To be completely debt free (even of 'good' debt) and really truly own our house. Sure, it helps to have a house that didn't cost very much to start with. But we have been... (More)

Posted by joyful on February 22, 2007, 3:33 pm
Category: General

Heat/Furnace

Note to self: when going to bed, and walking past a heating vent that is blowing cold air, double check that the furnace is working. 52 degrees in the house this morning, and it isn't that cold out (27 or so).The fan is on constantly, but the ignition isn't turning on, so it seems... (More)

Posted by jondaley on February 14, 2007, 8:39 am
Category: Reviews

Thoughts on Marriage

A friend of John Kuhns was asked some questions about marriage and what the point of it is. This was his response: I think you are right that marriage is becoming less and less meaningful these days. People seem to think of marriage as just a very-committed relationship. When you are in a... (More)

Posted by jondaley on January 17, 2007, 9:11 pm
Category: Reviews

The Joy of Watching Them Learn

I've been especially enjoying my boys the last week or so, having fun watching them learn so fast. Specifically, Noah's crawling and Jonathan's recognition of numerals and letters. Noah has now figured out "crawling for transportation." He knows he can do... (More)

Posted by joyful on January 16, 2007, 12:38 pm
Category: Jonathan, Noah

RSS Feeds

I have been meaning to get around to putting at least some of these in my "Links" panel on the right, though I suspect that it would be too long to place all of them there. But, anyway, here are the blogs that I read regularly. (The RSS feed reader makes it possible to... (More)

Posted by jondaley on January 10, 2007, 5:01 pm
Category: Internet

Excommunication

A good post on judging , and making sure to clarify between judging the sin of the world and of the brethren. Do we let people be happy, and not say anything, in order to not rock the boat, or do we speak up? Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his... (More)

Posted by jondaley on January 10, 2007, 7:19 am
Category: Bible

Bump Keys

I heard about bump keys recently, and had a little time to play around this morning. I read an article about them, and watched a youtube video , and away I went. It took about 15 minutes to hand-file a key. And then another 20 minutes to try the "pull-back"... (More)

Posted by jondaley on December 13, 2006, 7:20 am
Category: Reviews