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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

Clean Your Dishwasher With Lemonade?

As we've mentioned, our water is pretty hard, and dishwashers in particular don't like hard water, and the manual with our dishwasher says specifically that it won't work with our water. But, it has worked pretty well for around ten months or so, as long as we kept the rinse aid... (More)

Posted by jondaley on May 25, 2010, 7:08 pm
Category: Reviews

Biking Trip to Ohiopyle Summary

I bought a Trail-gator for attaching Jonathan's bike to mine, and we went on a couple 10 mile rides last week to test it out, and to build up our strength, but I had been pretty tired after those rides, so I wasn't very optimistic that we would make it to Ohiopyle without calling Heather to... (More)

Posted by jondaley on May 25, 2010, 11:42 am
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 #5

From Alex: Please forgive me, my fellow peddlers, for the confusion as the right of the 140+ crest. As the journey from Mckeesport to Ohiopyle is 70+ miles, of you traveled with us down and back, you are rightfully a member of the 140+ guild. I currently await the... (More)

Posted by jondaley on May 25, 2010, 10:46 am
Category: General

Biking Prelude #3

From me: Oh Great Stout Hearted One and Less Admired Comrades: At this moment, that is to say, this present instance in time, I and my accompanying attendants find the highly esteemed, large and otherwise great price of the rougher,... (More)

Posted by jondaley on May 25, 2010, 10:28 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

Biking Prelude #1

As some of you know, Jonathan and I and some guys from church biked to Ohiopyle last weekend. What less of you know is what goes on inside the heads of these crazy guys, and even less of you know what sort of emails get passed around prior to a trip like this. Worry no longer, those emails... (More)

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

CHAP conference

I have a double request from Grandma to post on the homeschool conference and to make the miscarriage post no longer the first thing you see when you check the blog. So here goes. (: This was our second year at the CHAP convention. Last year we spent so much time listening... (More)

Posted by joyful on May 17, 2010, 11:59 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

Pocket Notes

5/1 - Noah continues to update his pronunciation of words. That day it was, for battery, "baddewy" instead of "badeedee" Faith's okay is now "o-tay". 5/4 - Faith stayed in the Bible study babysitting the whole time. Jonathan and Noah were... (More)

Posted by joyful on May 12, 2010, 10:24 am
Category: General, Jonathan, Noah, Faith

I am not allergic to poison ivy

But I will not attempt again to pull it out without another adult present. I saw that two small vines were creeping up trees in places I had noticed last year (one of which I had pulled out, but there must have still been roots). Since all my crazy dressing up last year was a pain... (More)

Posted by joyful on May 1, 2010, 6:05 pm
Category: General

Ahh, Spring. The Season of Bandaids

Combine shorts/shortsleeves with pricker bushes and concrete and childhood exploration. Jonathan takes care of himself now, and Noah does sometimes, but I've been doing lots of bandaging for Faith. She's pretty good about leaving them on, but when they fall off she is insistent... (More)

Posted by joyful on April 24, 2010, 12:15 pm
Category: General, Jonathan, Noah, Faith

Daddy Gone Notes and More Recent

Here are my notes from when Jon was in the Dominican Republic: Saturday - first dinner with Daddy gone - When Faith saw that Daddy was not in his chair at the table, she looked for him in the computer room. The next morning when I got up first, Noah commented that usually Daddy is... (More)

Posted by joyful on April 18, 2010, 5:52 pm
Category: General, Jonathan, Noah, Faith

Total Church: Success

In conclusion, the authors talk some about definitions of success and how those definitions affect how you see yourself and your church. He is quick to point out that large churches are not always bad, but points out various downsides of being in a large church, some of which I have... (More)

Posted by jondaley on April 16, 2010, 10:57 pm
Category: Reviews