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Wood Burning

Note: most links in the article are links to our pictures of the wood As I've mentioned previously , we really like our...

A Few Notes

Noah has added a syllable to his pronunciation of Jonathan's name: "Ah-huh" 12/11 and following - My aunt gave us...

2009 Taxes

So, any bets on whether I'm missing something?  I've just finished our 2009 taxes, tentatively, since we'll have a bit more...

Product Review: Wood Stove: 13-NCI

I mentioned our new wood stove previously, and asked some of you for recommendations, but never got around to writing about it...

Product Review: Christmas Lights

Last year, we were the only people on our street without outside Christmas decorations, and most neighbors had nice decorations, and...

Product Review: Mouse Traps

We have had the joy of testing out various mouse trap products over the last year with varying degrees of success. Our goals...

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...

Checkups

I'll start with most recent and then go to my pocket notes.  Jonathan and Faith both had well child checkups yesterday.  As...

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...

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...

Geekonics

NEWS BULLETIN: Saying it will improve the education of children who have grown up immersed in computer lingo, the school board in...

I Love Word Problems

I was searching for Noah's first word on our blog (I found his first signed word: please, but I couldn't find his first spoken word)...

Lots of Pocket Notes

Jonathan has created a new superhero.  Actually, a team of superheroes.  They are the SuperFire team, made up of as many...

Upromise Withdrawals!

I noticed that upromise now allows you to withdraw your money instead of having to wait until your kid goes to college.  Given...

Virus Joke

PAUL REVERE VIRUS: This revolutionary virus does not horse around. It warns you of impending hard disk attack: Once, if by LAN; twice...

Updated Pictures

We are in the process of moving to a new filename format for our pictures, simpy using the timestamp from the camera, rather than...

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...

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...

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...

Notes From The Pocket

8/7 - Faith started using the more sign consistently and spontaneously.  She will now also use it to mean "I want...

Lots Happening

7/5 - (oh, yes, this means I have not posted in at least a month...) Faith crawled upstairs all by herself (with Mom behind her all...

ThinkGeek Gift Certificate

Hello.  I often get ThinkGeek gift certificates (I expect they give $10 certificates to anyone who asks them).  And I just...

Obamacare

There are various reasons why I don't think Obama's healthcare (or any federal healthcare program) is a good idea, but today happened...

Birthday, Quotes, Misc

6/18 - Talking at the dinner table about what something tasted like.  Mommy: "My tongue said [it was yummy]." ...

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...

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