Category: family
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Vacation Dreaming
It’s still several weeks away, but the whole family is now very excited about an upcoming trip to Florida. We’ve never been and we don’t know what to expect, but we know that it will be nice to leave the 20-30s degree range for a while and hang out in the 70-80s.
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Tuesday was a long day
The day began at 6:00 AM and ended at about 10:00 PM. Tuesday’s are cool because I spend a lot of the day with students. Of course, interspersed with that is a lot of the "other stuff" that I do for the church. Tech stuff, pastoral stuff, yada yada yada. All in all, this made…
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wake up already!
I was up pretty late watching the USC/Texas game. (Still can’t believe USC lost, amazing.) But my point is that my family who went to be by 9:30 is still sound asleep. Even Stoney is still asleep in his dog bed. It’s just me and the cat and I have to leave for work in…
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Christmas Card I Wanted
Today we got a card from Discover card. It said "We want to be your trusted credit card" and on the inside it read "again." You know, I am so excited to start 2006 free of consumer debt. I hope we finish 2006 in the same situation.
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kitchen work underway
Inspired by a Flip that House marathon on the Discovery Channel, Kristen and I started messing our kitchen. There were some "country looks" that drive us insane and well, they had to go. I’d rather look at raw drywall than that old nasty country looking wallpaper. Here is what is on tap. Ditch the country…
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Welcome 2006
Not only is vacation officially over (which I am happy to be rid of) but today is obviously the start of 2006. As we look backwards I see a fantastic 2005. Major accomplishments galore… perhaps the most important being that we are out of "consumer debt" and so many more that I couldn’t even list…
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Motor City Bowl
Kristen and I and Todd met up with my extended family for yesterday’s Motor City Bowl in downtown Detroit. The game was pretty interesting considering the only thing I cared about either team is that my brother-in-law went to Memphis. It was a fun finish as Akron really came back and almost recovered their second…
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Looking forward and not backwards
This week is a big "looking back" week. It’s in my nature to be reflective on the past. I want to get hung up on what I’ve been up to, what God has done, and what could have gone better. In fact, I tend to worry about yesterday more than I consider right now or…
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$7329 Gas Bill
So, it was just a nightmare last night. But I really did dream that I opened up my January bill and it was $7329. I hope that dream doesn’t come true.
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Megan’s memory
Megan is getting pretty old you know? She is pushing 4.5 these days and there is something about this ripe old age that makes a girl reflective on life’s good times. Just now, she was telling me about the blue houses stairs. (We talk about the different places we’ve lived by the color of the…