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Long Time Coming - Pocket Notes
6/14 - On our camping trip, Faith liked to play Ice Cream Shop. Her flavors are unique: pineapple hot sauce, strawberry beet,...
joyful, 17 August 2011 |
Firefighting
I don't think it has been said here, other than in small mentions here and there, that I joined our volunteer fire company in Middlesex...
Pocket Notes
5/23 - Joy is chomping and chewing. I suspect she is an early teether like Noah and Faith. 5/30 - Joy rolled front to back....
Shards of Glass and Other Ways My Life Isn't Perfect
Jon was with a bunch of people we don't see often last night, and one of the men mentioned that his wife was discouraged by all these...
my Quarter colection.
i have 21 quarters in my quarter colection. those quarters are hawaii, kansas, maine, west virginia, wyoming, idaho, kentucky, arkansas,...
Pocket Notes
Joy has two hair swirls at the back of her head. One goes clockwise and one counter-clockwise. Each of my other children...
Jonathan's Lemonade Stand
Jonathan's new adventure in earning money is a lemonade stand. He thought maybe he could call it "Lemon Daley" as part of the...
Pocket Notes
4/15 - Faith and Noah are playing house. They are married, and are parents to Faith's "purple baby doll". Noah says to...
Morning Conversations
Noah (while we started the woodstove): Can fire do anything to metal? Dad: It can melt it, if it is hot enough. Noah (wide-eyed): So,...
Lots of Notes
Faith has started calling Jonathan, "Ohnny-int" This is related to how she says medicine ("meddy-int") and other words that end...
Pocket Notes
3/11 - Faith can count to six. 3/12 - Faith counted to ten. She isn't consistent with this. She'll get stuck after six,...
Old Hard Drives from Amazon and Newegg
I bought 6 Seagate hard drives from Amazon and Newegg, and both companies sent me drives that already had half their warranty expired....
Pocket Notes
2/11 - Faith, looking at cousin Cole's cute pictures. "Me wikey 'at wittle Tole, Tole, Tole." 2/24 - Milk started coming in Thursday...
Joy Ellen Daley's Birth Story
I'd been having these strange contractions for a few days. Not the simple Brackston-Hicks that I have throughout pregnancy that feel...
Joy Ellen Daley - Born This Morning!
Heather will surely write a more detailed post for those wanting those details, but for now, a shorter post will have to do. We got...
2010 Christmas Letter (or maybe Epiphany or Valentine's...
Here is our Christmas letter - if you are reading this blog, you probably know most of it anyway, but I figure there are some people...
Notes, Haircut
1/20 - Jonathan, as usual, singing while he plays and works. This time it was, "Come, Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadil. Come, Tom...
Pocket Notes, 33 Week Appointment, Boys at the Dentist
12/23 - Noah: "Tomorrow's tomorrow is Christmas!" Both Jonathan and Noah were sick in the car on the way to New Hampshire. ...
Work Year End Update
Heather asked me to give her the monthly time logs for invoices today, so I took the opportunity to run my brand new script that shows...
Minivan: Oldsmobile Silhouette
We bought a "new" minivan last year, and it had the lowest mileage, and highest cost of any car we've owned so far. It is a 1997...
Woodstove Update
Since we're now into the second year of using the woodstove, I thought I would post an update about it. I bought five cords of wood...
Waterproofing the Basement
If Heather hasn't been writing recently, that means I'm not writing at all... First, the basement - after all of the ongoing water...
Two Notes
I haven't been writing things down much recently, but here are a few. 12/14 - Faith likes to "write" and rarely draws, but she asked...
Midwife Appointment, 29 Weeks
12/16 - Headed up in the snow for another midwife appointment. I gained more weight this time, but Thanksgiving was in between...
Very Busy November
Actually, the only thing written in my pocket notes from all this time is that on 11/16, Jon solved the mirror cube with his eyes...