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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

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

Homemade Roller Coaster

Here's a cool thing: a homemade roller coaster . Though it seems like it was probably a lot of work and not quite as exciting as it could have been... (More)

Posted by jondaley on August 26, 2012, 5:12 pm
Category: Internet

A Nice Problem To Have

Today, I had to call the library to ask them to tell Jonathan it was time to come home for dinner. He had left me a note while I took my nap. He was there for about five hours. Definitely one advantage of living in this small town! (More)

Posted by joyful on August 2, 2012, 7:07 pm
Category: Jonathan

Notes Catchup Part II, the Whirlwind

Last catchup ended on the weekend of the fire company banquet. That weekend was also the beginning of the new adventure. Two different people called up to ask about looking to buy our house. No, not the one we're fixing up to sell. The one we're living in. Well, ok,... (More)

Posted by joyful on April 1, 2012, 11:02 am
Category: General, Jonathan, Noah, Faith, Joy

Notes Catchup Part I

2/6 - Joy went down a whole flight of stairs successfully. She slides down forwards on her bottom. Faith was with her this time. By now, she's an old pro at stairs. I bought some mini hair clips for Faith. They are the normal clear, brown, black, swirly brown that hair... (More)

Posted by joyful on April 1, 2012, 10:35 am
Category: General, Jonathan, Noah, Faith, Joy

A Couple More Links

Here are the last ones to share, I'll try to be more careful in the future to link to posts properly when I "share" things, so you can actually see the content regardless of whether facebook or google or the original poster make it difficult... Statistics in science : I don't quite... (More)

Posted by jondaley on November 14, 2011, 8:59 am
Category: Internet

Pocket Notes

8/21 - I can't remember when babies are "supposed" to get object permanence, but Joy definitely has it. She was playing on her tummy on the kitchen floor with two toys. When she lost them under herself, she looked all around trying to find them again. 8/24 - Jonathan called the... (More)

Posted by joyful on September 11, 2011, 11:37 am
Category: Jonathan, Noah, Faith, Joy

Long Time Coming - Pocket Notes

6/14 - On our camping trip, Faith liked to play Ice Cream Shop. Her flavors are unique: pineapple hot sauce, strawberry beet, water, to name a few. After those, I requested just plain ice creams, though she really wanted to put hot sauce on most of them. We finally settled on a... (More)

Posted by joyful on August 17, 2011, 7:11 am
Category: General, Jonathan, Noah, Faith, Joy

Shards of Glass and Other Ways My Life Isn't Perfect

Jon was with a bunch of people we don't see often last night, and one of the men mentioned that his wife was discouraged by all these homeschooling mother-of-many type blogs where everyone has all their lives together and nothing goes wrong. So I thought I'd post how my life is not... (More)

Posted by joyful on May 28, 2011, 10:18 am
Category: General, Jonathan, Noah, Faith, Joy

Pocket Notes

Joy has two hair swirls at the back of her head. One goes clockwise and one counter-clockwise. Each of my other children only have one. 5/3 - Joy's two month appointment. 12 lb, 3 oz. She is developing a birthmark in the upper right of her forehead (can't remember the... (More)

Posted by joyful on May 19, 2011, 6:57 pm
Category: General, 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

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