Daley Ponderings | Search Results

Search Results: year

Archives

Miscellaneous

Bad Behavior has blocked 439 access attempts in the last 7 days.

On Saturday, March 26th, Jonathan, Faith, Joy and I participated in our first karate tournament. The whole family rose bright and early so we could drive the two hours and 15 minutes to Standish, Maine. This tournament is relatively small, with only about five dojos participating.... (More)

Posted by joyful on March 31, 2016, 1:14 pm
Category: General, Jonathan, Faith, Joy

February 2016 Pocket Notes

2/2 - Noah and I walked past the food pantry on distribution day, and saw a friend of ours heading there. He asked if she was donating food and I explained that she was receiving food. He wondered why she needed to get food from the food pantry, and we had a good discussion about the... (More)

Posted by joyful on March 1, 2016, 3:16 pm
Category: General, Jonathan, Noah, Joy, Jeremiah, Nathaniel

Blogging and Catching Up

I am the kind of person who enjoys writing. I process my thoughts well by writing, and I like recording my thoughts and my family's life. This year, I will be posting more. At first, most will be catch-up posts. I have a whole year of pocket notes to enter, not to mention... (More)

Posted by joyful on January 6, 2016, 9:09 am
Category: General

Sailing

We went sailing today in the Black Rabbit, which is the name of our Flying Junior. I do need to find out the history of it, because I think I don't have it quite correct. But Heather's grandpa have it to her when she was a kid and we've sailed it since we were married. It needed a... (More)

Posted by jondaley on August 5, 2015, 8:58 pm
Category: General

Every Day Is A Good Day

Yesterday was an exhausting day, so I made sure to get us ready for bed early. We were in bed by 9:00. But Jeremiah kicked his covers off just about every hour and asked me to put them back on again. By 3:30 or so, his medicine had worn off and he was wheezing and... (More)

Posted by joyful on April 23, 2015, 9:34 am
Category: General, Jeremiah

Giant List of Pocket Notes

I'm very much behind on the blog. But I have kept the pocket notes safely typed up in my email. So here goes. In June, the kids and I made a trip to Florida to visit my parents, and my sister and her kids visited, too. 6/14 - Joy, "Mommy! I saw a dinosaur!" (It was a... (More)

Posted by joyful on December 22, 2014, 2:04 pm
Category: General, Jonathan, Pregnancy, Noah, Faith, Joy, Jeremiah

2013 Daley Christmas Letter

2013 Daley Christmas Letter (More)

Posted by joyful on January 1, 2014, 5:34 pm
Category: General, Jonathan, Noah, Faith, Joy, Jeremiah

Pocket Notes

11/8 - It was gusty and the maple seeds were being blown off our big tree by the thousands. It was such an amazing sight! The little helicopters were fluttering everywhere, even swarming like a host of grasshoppers or little birds. The grand picture was the swarming, and then... (More)

Posted by joyful on December 5, 2013, 8:31 am
Category: General, Jonathan, Noah, Faith, Joy, Jeremiah

Marriage Retreat

Heather and I had the opportunity to attend a marriage retreat with 10 or so couples from our church this weekend, up at Rangeley Lake in Maine (thanks Scott, for the house!) We were the youngest couple (by far, the average marriage length represented there was 31 years), and we haven't... (More)

Posted by jondaley on October 7, 2013, 12:59 pm
Category: General

Pocket Notes

Faith had a blast at Star Island with Grammy and Papa. 7/25 - JDD, explaining why he likes to use a certain spoon for his breakfast cereal, "That spoon is special to me, because Grammy gave it to me for Christmas last year." 7/28 or 29 - Joy had a cold and I gave her 1 or 2 nebulizer... (More)

Posted by joyful on September 14, 2013, 11:30 am
Category: General, Jonathan, Noah, Faith, Joy, Jeremiah

Full Summer/Pocket Notes

Having a dad in the fire department is educational in more than just fire safety: 5/17 - Jon is called to an accident "involving motor vehicle vs. moose" 5/18 - Jonathan reads about moose and siberian tigers on wikipedia ~5 - Joy says "owee here" = outta here 5/20 - jpd 17 lb on our... (More)

Posted by joyful on July 28, 2013, 8:23 am
Category: General, Jonathan, Noah, Faith, Joy, Jeremiah

This is what makes it all worth while

So last week I was worn out with the extra work that unexpected messes bring. Today I'm tired but happy about it. Yesterday, Jon left very early to go on the church men's retreat. Our morning at home started out pretty badly (bickering/fighting) and the boys had to go run around... (More)

Posted by joyful on June 8, 2013, 10:59 am
Category: General, Jonathan, Noah

Pocket Notes

Oh, yes. It has been half a year since my last pocket notes post... 9/6 - Joy says "yum" and "yummy", "all done/gone" (sounds like ah-doh), "where shoe?", and "mine" (sounds like my) 9/25 - Faith reading the Bible to Joy: "When you want Mommy to cuddle with you but she can't, you... (More)

Posted by joyful on March 19, 2013, 5:16 pm
Category: General, Jonathan, Isaac, Pregnancy, Noah, Faith, Joy, Jeremiah

Jeremiah's Birth Story

My due date was February 21. Jonathan, Noah, and Faith had all been exactly five days late. Joy was early, but we weren't sure of her date and the more we thought about it the more we figured she probably had been late as well. So we had Linda and Porter schedule their flight to arrive... (More)

Posted by joyful on February 24, 2013, 5:55 pm
Category: Jeremiah

My Mother-In-Law's Insight Into Homeschooling

We are still working on renovating our new house, and thus we are still living with Jon's generous parents. And since we are living here, we are schooling here. But a comment from his mom gave me some insight into some non-homeschoolers' comments about homeschooling. We usually... (More)

Posted by joyful on September 29, 2012, 9:15 am
Category: General