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Pocket Notes
4/15 - Faith and Noah are playing house.  They are married, and are parents to Faith's "purple baby doll".  Noah says to Faith, about their baby, "When she is happy, I hold her.  When she is sad, you milk her." 4/18 - We were talking about heaven (I don't remember the beginning... (More)
Posted by joyful on April 29, 2011, 2:44 pm
Category: Jonathan, Noah, Faith, Joy
Lots of Notes
Faith has started calling Jonathan, "Ohnny-int"  This is related to how she says medicine ("meddy-int") and other words that end in /n/. She also says her own name, which sounds unfortunately rather like "Hate" but the /t/ is a bit softer, maybe halfway between that and "Hathe".... (More)
Posted by joyful on April 15, 2011, 9:13 am
Category: Jonathan, Noah, Faith, Joy
Pocket Notes
3/11 - Faith can count to six. 3/12 - Faith counted to ten.  She isn't consistent with this.  She'll get stuck after six, but if someone says seven, she can do the rest on her own.  I don't think she has quantity recognition past five, though.  And she sometimes likes to... (More)
Posted by joyful on March 28, 2011, 6:21 pm
Category: Jonathan, Noah, Faith, Joy
Old Hard Drives from Amazon and Newegg
I bought 6 Seagate hard drives from Amazon and Newegg, and both companies sent me drives that already had half their warranty expired. Amazon, after waiting for the customer support guy to handle 5 simultaneous chat sessions, and so was quite slow at responding, did send out a mailing label... (More)
Posted by jondaley on March 18, 2011, 11:39 am
Category: Reviews
Joy Ellen Daley's Birth Story
I'd been having these strange contractions for a few days. Not the simple Brackston-Hicks that I have throughout pregnancy that feel tight but do not hurt. Not crampy labor contractions, either. They were very tight and they hurt. They came usually when I was sitting – on the couch or... (More)
Posted by joyful on February 25, 2011, 12:35 pm
Category: Joy
Notes, Haircut
1/20 - Jonathan, as usual, singing while he plays and works.  This time it was, "Come, Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadil.  Come, Tom Bombadil..." 1/22 - When boys have a tea party:  Noah, Faith and I were playing with Faith's tea set.  Noah said he couldn't eat his soup because... (More)
Posted by joyful on February 3, 2011, 9:58 am
Category: General, Jonathan, Pregnancy, Noah, Faith
Work Year End Update
Heather asked me to give her the monthly time logs for invoices today, so I took the opportunity to run my brand new script that shows how I've spent my time over the entire year. I averaged: 13.7 hours a week on directly billable work 7.6 hours a week on maintaining the company, phone... (More)
Posted by jondaley on December 23, 2010, 11:40 am
Category: Reviews
Woodstove Update
Since we're now into the second year of using the woodstove, I thought I would post an update about it. I bought five cords of wood this year, (we bought around four and a half last year, and used around three).  I got around one cord of black locust each year, and that wood is really... (More)
Posted by jondaley on December 22, 2010, 10:28 pm
Category: Reviews
Very Busy November
Actually, the only thing written in my pocket notes from all this time is that on 11/16, Jon solved the mirror cube with his eyes closed. Jonathan's 7th birthday was a very fun time.  He got a lot of cool presents and had a lot of cool people over to play.  Grandma and Dad-o were... (More)
Posted by joyful on December 8, 2010, 11:56 am
Category: General, Jonathan, Isaac, Pregnancy, Noah, Faith
A Full, Crazy, Fun Week
11/6 - Noah and I were making rice krispie treats and Noah was stirring.  He asked for a marshmallow, but I said no, they had to go in the recipe and he could have one of the finished products.  Well, he decided to snitch and got a natural lesson.  I, only a few feet away in the... (More)
Posted by joyful on November 15, 2010, 5:57 pm
Category: General, Jonathan, Pregnancy, Noah, Faith
Bedtime Cleanup
Inspired by an article in Family Fun magazine, I developed a fun motivator for bedtime cleanup that really works.  Before, there would be lots of complaining, dilly-dallying and nagging.  Now the house is clean every night before bed and the job is done quickly!  Here's how it... (More)
Posted by joyful on September 25, 2010, 6:32 pm
Category: Jonathan, Noah, Faith
2010 Family Bike Trip to Washington, DC: Fourth Day
We cooked bacon and pancakes (I found a nifty plastic pint jug in Walmart or somewhere that you simply pour water into the jug, shake it up, and pour it on the griddle) for breakfast, and then packed up and planned to meet for lunch at Great Falls, 15 miles away. Heather went back to... (More)
Posted by jondaley on August 20, 2010, 5:26 pm
Category: General, Jonathan, Noah, Faith
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
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
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