Search Results: family

Total Church: Why Gospel? Why Community?
It's definitely a telling commentary on my life that the first chapter of Total Church , "Why Gospel?" was less exciting to me than the following chapter, "Why Community?".  I think the former is in my head only, where the latter is in my head and heart.... (More)
Posted by jondaley on March 20, 2010, 10:31 am
Category: Reviews, Bible
AT&T Coverage and Service?
In continuing my tv watching and catching up on the news from the last year, I see that Verizon has been doing lots of ads about network speeds and comparing them to AT&T.  And I found out that AT&T rates lowest on consumer satisfaction surveys, etc.  My brother said he has... (More)
Posted by jondaley on December 29, 2009, 1:37 pm
Category: Reviews
Cost of Health Care?
Since I am in the category of people who is expected to see my health insurance double or triple, I wonder why people are spending so much on their health insurance.  I do see that since we are "poor", we'll likely get free or heavily discounted health insurance under Obama's... (More)
Posted by jondaley on December 28, 2009, 11:09 am
Category: Reviews
Pocket Notes
11/7 - Noah discovered the two cube puzzle that has pictures of six different vehicles and plays the sound of each when the puzzle is completed.  He was having trouble with it, which seemed strange to me at this age.  He kept getting the wrong sounds playing.  I told him to... (More)
Posted by joyful on December 2, 2009, 2:34 pm
Category: Jonathan, Noah, Faith
Remember, Remember, The Fifth of November
We began the day learning about Guy Fawkes Day (Jonathan says now if we ever visit England he wants to visit at the beginning of November so he can participate in the festivities.)  We ended the day by taking Daddy to the ER.  Jon's notes in italics . It was quarter of five... (More)
Posted by joyful on November 8, 2009, 7:19 pm
Category: General
Pocket Notes
10/23 - Jon said, "Ask Jonathan an addition problem with two digit numbers that sum to a multiple of ten."  I asked him 53+17, and Jonathan figured out loud, "the seventeen goes to twenty, the fifty three goes to fifty...seventy!" I signed Jonathan up for the... (More)
Posted by joyful on November 4, 2009, 8:39 pm
Category: Jonathan, Noah, Faith
Noah 3, Faith 1, Pocket Notes, No Boys In Diapers
Noah's three year appointment was at the beginning of the month.  He is 42.5 lbs and 41" tall.  They did the hearing and vision tests and the nurse was very impressed.  She said usually at this age, they can hear the sounds but not figure out which ear they're hearing it... (More)
Posted by joyful on September 19, 2009, 4:26 pm
Category: Jonathan, Internet, Noah, Faith
New Kind of Scam: Works Well In a Down Economy
I got an email last night from someone who was looking up contact information for one of my customers: Piexx Company . She was wondering if someone was trying to scam her.  The way the scam works is that someone says they are a hiring agency for some company and posts a job offer for a... (More)
Posted by jondaley on September 17, 2009, 8:51 am
Category: Internet, Reviews
Wissmann Family - October 6th
I just learned about the Wissmann family , and that they are coming to Pittsburgh, to Ascension Lutheran Church on Peebles Road (near McKnight). We are planning on going. They have a couple sample songs on their web site, and it sounds like it will be a fun night. Brennan (paster... (More)
Posted by jondaley on September 7, 2009, 5:20 pm
Category: General
A Rich Family
Heather remarked at dinner tonight (at the Olive Garden - thanks Wightmans, we've got 7 more dinners at this rate to celebrate our anniversary) that we are a rich family: we now own two cars and two houses.  I did realize that some people spend more on their cars than we spent on our... (More)
Posted by jondaley on June 23, 2009, 8:21 pm
Category: Reviews
In Other News
We are the happy recipients of two used swingsets - one from a family at church and one from the next door neighbors.  It is loads of fun and we're planning on building monkey bars between the two sets. Recently, when I was reading one of our storybooks about Noah and the flood,... (More)
Posted by joyful on June 12, 2009, 8:22 pm
Category: Jonathan, Noah
Dishwasher! and more
We now have a dishwasher in our kitchen, which Jon installed himself (running new electric, supply, and drain.) Yeah! There is also a ceiling fan/light fixture in our bedroom to replace the bare bulb fixture.   Yeah! 5/13 - N count to 10 5/13 - Jonathan's practical... (More)
Posted by joyful on May 30, 2009, 7:46 pm
Category: General, Jonathan, Noah, Faith
Hugging...
I've noticed the "kids" at church (in quotes, since folks are quite sure where to place me, the "adults" say I'm a kid, and the "kids" say I'm adult (I think primarily since I'm married and have kids of my own)) hug more than I am used to, and I had internally... (More)
Posted by jondaley on May 29, 2009, 10:44 am
Category: Reviews
Free Range Kids: One Hundred Years Ago
Would you send your nine-year-old on a New York City subway by himself?  Would you send him on a horse from Oklahoma to New Mexico and back by way of the deserts of Texas - taking his five-year-old brother along? It can be frustrating sifting through the chaff at the children's... (More)
Posted by joyful on April 23, 2009, 7:21 am
Category: Reviews
2008 Taxes
I haven't looked at how much time it took us to do taxes this year - I thought we were doing pretty well, time-wise, until we blew 8 hours or so today finishing them off (or is it them finishing us off, I'm not sure which...) I noticed a number of places where the strange, complicated... (More)
Posted by jondaley on March 20, 2009, 10:21 pm
Category: Reviews
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