Category: family
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A little thing I love about Romeo
Now that we’ve lived here on Bailey Street about a year, I know what I like and don’t like. Two things worth mentioning that I love about where we live. We’re right in the village. When we were looking at houses we looked at stuff all over the Romeo School district. In our school district…
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Megan is in school
Tuesday, Megan began Kindergarten. As a parent, this is pretty hard to swallow. All the emotions of her growing up seem to well up as the reality of her not being a baby anymore slaps you in the face. In the days leading up to school starting I was pretty bummed out. But on Tuesday…
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Another sign of winter
I ordered another Econo-Heat panel for Paul’s room. We only had one last winter and I wanted to make sure we keep Paul nice and toasty in his room. The one in Megan’s room was fantastic last winter… so I think it’s worth the money. I read a bunch of flaming bad reviews online of…
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A New Diagnosis
We finally have a name for what our little Paulie does. When he is pinching everyone, getting on his sisters nerves, disagreeable to his dad, and says "Go away from me" to the world Paul is suffering from PNS. (Pre-Nap Syndrome) Today I am suffering from NNS. (No-Nap Syndrome) It barely seems like a Sunday…
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Back to the fall routine
With cool temperatures rising in Romeo and excuses fading away, we began our fall clean-up today. I popped several tylenol before doing this… Wow, my back is sore from all the painting at church this week. But I had to get to work nonetheless. I hope I can sleep better tonight. Today, I climbed the…
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No more Dave-ness
Well, he’s gone. The party ended about 5:00 PM as we left Dave at the security check point. The whole way there and even seeing him start to say goodbye to a lot of people didn’t make it set in… but at the airport it started to hit us. As we said our final goodbyes…
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Last Day for Dave
Today is the last Sunday for our intern Dave. He’ll be playing in the services as well as the Bonfire tonight. I’ll have more thoughtful and complete reflections some other time… it’s just not easy to see him go when we’re really just getting used to having him here. As a houseguest, he doesn’t seem…
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Morning Rituals
Every morning in our house is nearly the same. About 7 o’clock my alarm goes off. The alarm is quickly snoozed… 9 more minutes please. When I finally wake up enough to be coherent, I discover that Kristen is generally off jogging somewhere. Before my first snooze alarm, Paul crawls into bed with his blanket…
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On Coming Home
We just returned back from a trip to Michigan’s Adventure and canoeing. Here’s my thought on coming home. The only thing more exciting about going on a trip is coming home from one.
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Bonfire and other notes
Yesterday we hosted the church’s Bonfire at our house. Bonfire is Romeo’s Sunday evening informal worship thing. We sit around the campfire and praise God. Last night, Dave and I led a Throne Room concert of prayer. I think it went pretty well. We had a good number of people show up too. Not that…