I less than 2 weeks Baby will be home. It has gone by rather quickly and I am ready to see this little girl. She can barely move at this point, but whenever I talk to her or place my hand on her she starts to fidget. She has been getting the hiccups at night…
Read moreAs of today, I have 2 more weeks of being pregnant, and then we will have another baby around the house. As I said, we are having a c-section on August 12th, Tuesday. My sister is getting married on August 9th, and we won’t be able to make it, for obvious reasons, but we are…
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I found this old photo at church of a boy receiving a bronze medal for Royal Rangers. It got me thinking about where we are today in this post modern world, where perseverance, hard work, and sacrifice seems to have taken a back seat to instant downloads and virtual worlds. It takes years of work…
Read moreWe have been finishing up the nursery at the house, and last night I showed the room to big sister. Her enthusiasm could not have been more as she excitedly exclaimed how she can’t wait for her little sister. I wasn’t sure how she would take being unseated as the little girl in the house,…
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When I first started this whole piano lessons business, I tried to think ahead as I planned my yearly calendar. I wanted to offer 36 lessons a year, and go for about 10 months–and offer the same vacations, etc, that the public schools do, since half my students are public schooled. I charge $55.00 a…
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This weekend we celebrate our son passing into manhood. Passing into manhood sounds kind of corny, but there is no other word for it in English. We will be having a celebration where we mark his transition from childhood to adulthood. We have lost those type of events in the modern world and because of…
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Some of my fondest childhood memories are of dismantling. My parents can attest to the fact that my brothers and I were quite adept at it. In fact the more difficult the challenge, the more we rose to the challenge. A favorite family tale was the Tonka trucks we were given in our youth. Mom…
Read moreOne of the biggest benefits of homeschooling is the home school community. We are blessed to be in a church that not only supports home schoolers, but openly endorses it at the leadership level. Three of our four Pastors actively home school and our elder teaches at Regent University in the education department and is…
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Got this last night from Karen, the Aunt of three girls we were considering adopting two years ago. Hi Dave and Julie, Just thought I’d touch base and let you know that as of Dec 26, 2007 the girls’ adoption was finalized. They did stay with one of the family members of the foster parents. …
Read moreI have determined that learning to trust is one of those lessons that must be experienced in order to master. Trust is an action – like swimming – you can’t really learn how to swim by reading about it, or talking about it, or thinking about it. The only way we learn how to swim…
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