Category: family
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Buick Open Date
Kristen and I made a return trip to Warrick Hills yesterday to watch the third round of the Buick Open. It was a lot of fun to traverse the grounds as a spectator. Here are some highlights. A place to sit We spent the early part of the day trying to find a place to…
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Out of the mouths of babes, part 2
After the last post about Paul, I’m guessing people think my kids are really wild animals. Well, truth be told that’s partially true… but they also are really sweet and say nice things. Last night Paul and Kristen were laying in Paul’s bed. Kristen was trying to get Paul to go to sleep when he…
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Out of the mouths of babes
Few things are more fun for me than hanging out with my kids and talking away. For this story… you need to know that Paul still has a hard time with his "s" words. The conjunction "st" gets pronounced more like "sd" and "s" words often come across as "sh" words. So you can imagine…
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Doggy First Aid, part 2
I just got back from the vet. Stoney is now sporting a very cool orange bandage. They took him in the back room and he came back a few minutes later. He was very good about it. He’s been pretty lazy today, but I’m expecting him to be back to his normal self in no…
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Doggy First Aid
We are dogsitting for Nat’s massive hound dog named Flapjack. So far, it’s been really easy since he’s a nice dog. But the first day Stoney and Flappy did get into a little bit of a scuffle. In the course of fighting there was a lot of scratching and biting. While Flappy didn’t get hurt…
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Late Nights
The last several days (ok, weeks) have been a series of late nights. I am really looking forward to a nice and lazy Saturday. Middle Madness last night was a lot of fun. We went out to Dryden and ran around doing a scavenger hunt. Then the students tried to make some homemade ice cream.…
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Have you seen her?
It’s not unusual for our family cat, Violet, to be gone for a few days in the summer. We have one of those wonderful cats who likes to be out all night and sleeps in the house all day… but we haven’t seen her for about 3 days now. We hope she’s OK. She the…
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Boys Day
Today was one of those days you circle on the calendar and say… "wow." In the course of my normal craziness one of my favorite old guys came over to me with a funny look on his face. He asked me what I was up to after church. In my mind I was thinking, "Cool,…
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Dave is here!
I’ve been a little silent about this because of our recent connection problems. But Dave is here and we’re having a great time. I’m having to relearn all my "Northern Irish-isms" as we try to communicate well. One of the best things so far is how well he’s fit into the family. It’s absolutely incredible…
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Paul Likes it Loud
As Kristen reported a few days ago, Paul has fallen in love with the iPod. He’s two you know? He likes to sit very quietly and listen to music. Now that he’s discovered that I purchased a few songs from Cars, he won’t let me have it back. This morning, as soon as he got…