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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

Firefighting

I don't think it has been said here, other than in small mentions here and there, that I joined our volunteer fire company in Middlesex Township a couple of months ago. I am not sure of the exact number of incidents that I've gone out on, but the number is probably around 8 or so, though... (More)

Posted by jondaley on June 9, 2011, 4:57 pm
Category: Reviews

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

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

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

Pocket Notes, 33 Week Appointment, Boys at the Dentist

12/23 - Noah: "Tomorrow's tomorrow is Christmas!" Both Jonathan and Noah were sick in the car on the way to New Hampshire. Blessedly, they both managed to get everything in the bowls and nothing on anyplace else in the car. By the time we arrived, they were fine and the rest of... (More)

Posted by joyful on January 19, 2011, 7:00 pm
Category: 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

Minivan: Oldsmobile Silhouette

We bought a "new" minivan last year, and it had the lowest mileage, and highest cost of any car we've owned so far. It is a 1997 Oldsmobile Silhouette, and it had 107,000 miles on it. We did a lot of driving (I hit 135,000 today, after a year and a half). Heather and I both... (More)

Posted by jondaley on December 22, 2010, 10:41 pm
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

Midwife Appointment, 29 Weeks

12/16 - Headed up in the snow for another midwife appointment. I gained more weight this time, but Thanksgiving was in between visits... My iron was low again, despite diligently eating that horrible molasses, but she was suspicious that her hemoglobin tester is off... (More)

Posted by joyful on December 22, 2010, 8:46 pm
Category: Pregnancy

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

Pocket Notes

11/1 - Jonathan, "My favorite color is green." Noah, "My favorite color is green, too!" Jonathan, "Faith, what's your favorite color? Is it green?" Faith, "No, flower." 11/1 - Jonathan lost his left front upper tooth! He bit into a grape (boy, that tooth must... (More)

Posted by joyful on November 5, 2010, 9:27 pm
Category: Jonathan, Noah, Faith