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Someone asked what timer we recently purchased, and I figured I should post it here, since it seems to work pretty well. We bought the " Meinor Aqua Flush ", I chose this one because it was the only one available at Target while I was buying our third sprinkler (I should do... (More)

Posted by jondaley on August 3, 2010, 1:27 pm
Category: Reviews

Pregnant!

Cycles did not return after the miscarriage, and that along with other symptoms leads me to conclude that I am pregnant again. The due date I am calling March 1. (I don't really think I can count the miscarriage as LMP and I have reason to believe that ovulation was a week later anyway.)... (More)

Posted by joyful on July 7, 2010, 10:59 am
Category: Pregnancy

Last Day of Kindergarten

I decided to (mostly arbitrarily) call today the last day of Kindergarten. Tomorrow will be the first day of First Grade. I wanted to post because of Jonathan's answers to some of the logic problems he had today. For each line, there was a list of five objects or... (More)

Posted by joyful on June 30, 2010, 11:48 am
Category: Jonathan

High Fructose Corn Syrup

We generally try to avoid corn syrup of all kinds (but we only "try", meaning it isn't banned or anything like that). But, when I'm looking for cereal or granola bars or whatever, I check the ingredients and particularly try to gauge if sugar (in whatever form) would be the first... (More)

Posted by jondaley on June 11, 2010, 9:16 am
Category: Reviews

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

New Bike Report

So, after thinking about it for a while, we decided to go ahead and purchase a new bike. The reason it took some thinking is that it isn't a regular old bike with one seat, but has three seats, with room for three adults, or with the added child conversion kits, Noah and Jonathan can fit... (More)

Posted by jondaley on June 8, 2010, 9:21 pm
Category: Reviews

Triplet Biking - Here We Come!!!

We just put a deposit down for a used triplet bike, with two child conversion kits. Which means it will look something like the pictures on this site . Though our current plan is for Faith to be in a trailer attached to the back, and each of the boys will have the raised pedals clamped... (More)

Posted by jondaley on May 27, 2010, 8:35 pm
Category: General

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

Clean Your Dishwasher With Lemonade?

As we've mentioned, our water is pretty hard, and dishwashers in particular don't like hard water, and the manual with our dishwasher says specifically that it won't work with our water. But, it has worked pretty well for around ten months or so, as long as we kept the rinse aid... (More)

Posted by jondaley on May 25, 2010, 7:08 pm
Category: Reviews

Biking Trip to Ohiopyle Summary

I bought a Trail-gator for attaching Jonathan's bike to mine, and we went on a couple 10 mile rides last week to test it out, and to build up our strength, but I had been pretty tired after those rides, so I wasn't very optimistic that we would make it to Ohiopyle without calling Heather to... (More)

Posted by jondaley on May 25, 2010, 11:42 am
Category: General

Biking Prelude #7

From me: Greetings, I beseech you in the name of the fair gravel god Macadam . The town crier has informed us, the royal court, that some of you minions scoffed at my prior references to the presumed conflict between the bipedaled beasts and steel plated goblins, and so we hereby... (More)

Posted by jondaley on May 25, 2010, 10:52 am
Category: General

Biking Prelude #5

From Alex: Please forgive me, my fellow peddlers, for the confusion as the right of the 140+ crest. As the journey from Mckeesport to Ohiopyle is 70+ miles, of you traveled with us down and back, you are rightfully a member of the 140+ guild. I currently await the... (More)

Posted by jondaley on May 25, 2010, 10:46 am
Category: General

Biking Prelude #3

From me: Oh Great Stout Hearted One and Less Admired Comrades: At this moment, that is to say, this present instance in time, I and my accompanying attendants find the highly esteemed, large and otherwise great price of the rougher,... (More)

Posted by jondaley on May 25, 2010, 10:28 am
Category: General

Biking Prelude #2

From Billy: Hail thou brave and mighty Alex...and other revered members of the Assembly: You have returned from the halls of scholasticia not a moment too soon. We have long awaited the coming of a valiant warrior as yourself who would dare to make the perilous... (More)

Posted by jondaley on May 25, 2010, 10:27 am
Category: General

CHAP conference

I have a double request from Grandma to post on the homeschool conference and to make the miscarriage post no longer the first thing you see when you check the blog. So here goes. (: This was our second year at the CHAP convention. Last year we spent so much time listening... (More)

Posted by joyful on May 17, 2010, 11:59 am
Category: General