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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...

Chinese Perspective on Obama's Election

I keep forgetting to post this.  A friend who currently lives in China wrote: It has been interesting to hear some of my...

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...

Faith Nine Months

Faith is 21.8 lb, 29" tall.  Those are both 90th percentile.  Everything checked out great, though he did do some extra...

Lyme Daley

After we hear others talking about ticks everywhere, we hadn't seen any at all in our yard.  And then Jonathan gets Lyme...

Dishwasher! and more

We now have a dishwasher in our kitchen, which Jon installed himself (running new electric, supply, and drain.) Yeah! There is...

Blog Statistics

Tom asked for some statistics for his blog, and I figured I might as well look them up for mine while I was at it.  I am not...

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...

Liberal or Conservative?

I guess I fail the test , since I answered "no" to both questions, though I suppose Brad Andresen from college (the one who...

Facebook Outage

So, I wonder if there is going to be one of those statistics published: "Facebook down for X minutes - office productivity improved...

Reading, Counting, Pulling Up

5/4 - Jonathan read Hop On Pop to us.  It took two sessions because it is a pretty long book.  It was fun for me because I...

A Post About Noah

4/23 and following - Noah sings a little song, waving his arms around and concludes with, "Amen."  He then says,...

I Heard It From a Newspaper...

So, I know you can't believe anything you read in a newspaper, but if the newspaper calls you and tells you something, then can you...

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...

Quotes and More

4/10 - Noah comes up to me, winking, and says, "Mommy, me one eye!"  It was hilarious.  (I couldn't wink until...

Another Word Problem

If you start a pot boiling at 9:55PM (knowing that you will be up for a while) to hard boil eggs for the following day and don't set a...

Coloring, Colors, Teeth

3/29 - Jonathan was upstairs quietly playing for a very long time.  When he finally came down, he showed us what he had been...

It's Ok, Grandma. She's Fine.

I was adding more materials to our garden beds, and wanted to mix it in by hand.  It doesn't work so well to lean over with Faith in...

Crawling! and more

3/6 - Jonathan beat Heather in chess, fair and square! 3/18 - Noah said, "I love you" for the first time.  It...

New Printer: HP LaserJet 1006. Installed on Linux CUPS...

Our printer finally died.  Or actually, it didn't really die, but required more money, so I decided (somewhat hesitantly, since...

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