Daley Ponderings

Phone, Lotion, Prunes, Prayer, Growing

Jonathan can really have a conversation on the phone now. He even has good one-sided ones when he is just pretending. For example, "Hello, Mrs. Grover! How are you? You're feeling good. Good!" "Hello, Grandma. I love you, too. Bye." (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on January 22, 2006, 4:20 pm | Read 2097 times | Comments (0)
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Innocent Pleasures

At our church's marriage retreat last weekend, we got a copy of "Innocent Pleasures" by David Powlinson, an article that was in the fall issue of The Journal of Biblical Counseling. (More)

Posted by Jon Daley on January 17, 2006, 12:59 pm | Read 19011 times | Comments (3)
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Saving Efax Documents

I have used Efax for a long time. I have heard that their customer service is horrible, and there are a couple alternatives to them. I just use their free fax-receiving only, and it has come in handy a handful of times. Today someone needed to fax something to China, which who knows how much that would cost, but instead, they faxed it to me, and I emailed it to the Chinese tech support. I couldn't get the efax software to output more than the first page of the fax to .tif format, but using Acrobat PDFWriter software, I was able to "print" the proprietary efax document to another less proprietary, or at least more common format, that hopefully will satisfy them.

Posted by Jon Daley on January 16, 2006, 9:30 pm | Read 3985 times | Comments (1)
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Random Thought - Grandma's Sweaters

I was talking with a friend the other day about grandmothers knitting and sweaters they give for Christmas. Her comment was, "I loved my grandma, but those things were hideous." Then I related how I always loved the things my grandma knitted for me. I was just thinking about it again recently. I even liked the pink sweater she made, and the tomboy in me normally didn't like pink. Maybe she was just more savvy about what little girls liked then. She made my sister and me these really neat sweatervests that had animals worked in - the face of the animal on the front, with button eyes, and the tail on the back, with little cat tails hanging out, or bunny rabbit cottontails. They were great. Yay for Grandma!

Posted by Heather Daley on January 12, 2006, 4:29 pm | Read 1618 times | Comments (1)
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Pretty, Hugball, Mom

On Tuesday as Jonathan was complaining about walking up the stairs, I said to him "Whiny voices are not pretty, Jonathan." He replied, "Hannah's pretty!" (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on January 12, 2006, 4:21 pm | Read 2390 times | Comments (1)
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Christmas and Vacation

Christmas Eve, we went to a church family's party and then had a candlelight service at church. Christmas Day, there was no service (we meet in a school and they didn't want to make the janitor work on Christmas) so we had the day at home. (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on January 7, 2006, 5:19 pm | Read 2597 times | Comments (1)
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Longer Sentences, More Complex Ideas, Growing Responsibility

Jonathan likes to play with the water in the sink, using cups and sponges, etc. I have a "three strikes" rule - after water gets on the floor three times, he has to turn it off and stop playing. Recently, he has actually finished his play before getting to the third time. Christmas Eve, he pulled his stool up to the sink, turned on the water and said, "Mommy, put the towel under the stool so I don't get water on the floor." What a resourceful child! (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on January 7, 2006, 4:58 pm | Read 2184 times | Comments (0)
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Hearing of Motions

From Vicki:
Judy's court date for the hearing of motions is tomorrow (which was rescheduled from September). Her attorney tells her that this will be a paperwork day. He is submitting his written arguments today, and then the DA's office, and then the judge, have to have time to evaluate and then decide the issues raised.

Please pray for Judy as she is battling laryngitis and a bad cough/cold. When the body is down, emotions tend to follow.

Please pray for her attorney, the DA and the judge that they will make wise decisions with the information presented to them.

As always, Judy says she is "committed to the fight".

To God be the Glory!

Posted by Jon Daley on January 3, 2006, 10:53 am | Read 4272 times | Comments (0)
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Lessons and Carols

Heather and I have tried to think of ways to make Christmas be focused on Christ and his birth. This year, we are using ideas from a handful of sites to help us find scriptures and songs to read and sing on Christmas morning. (More)

Posted by Jon Daley on December 24, 2005, 10:05 am | Read 6677 times | Comments (1)
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Somersaults

Thursday, the baby was doing somersaults all day, it was so fun!

Posted by Heather Daley on December 24, 2005, 8:26 am | Read 2129 times | Comments (1)
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Advent, Blinking, Boots

12/22 - We were playing the piano, singing some carols, and Jonathan sang, "Rejoice! Rejoice! Man-u, man-u, man-u, man-u, man-u, shall come!" (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on December 24, 2005, 8:18 am | Read 1949 times | Comments (1)
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Fun Jonathan Quotes

Much of the Jonathan news is best encapsulated by quoting him: (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on December 21, 2005, 4:20 pm | Read 1816 times | Comments (0)
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Narnia Review

I posted a bit of a review on this elf's blog, but after she saw the movie, her review is significantly better than mine.

Posted by Jon Daley on December 20, 2005, 9:03 am | Read 2139 times | Comments (0)
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First Prenatal Visit, Third Pregnancy

This morning, Mom, Jonathan and I drove up to the birth center where Jonathan was born for my first prenatal checkup with our midwife. (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on December 14, 2005, 3:39 pm | Read 2367 times | Comments (2)
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Rock-a-Bye, Childproof Caps, Jumping and More

Jonathan has been saying, "I'm very happy!" "I'm glad" and similar phrases. (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on December 13, 2005, 4:54 pm | Read 4721 times | Comments (0)
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