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Rant for the day

I’ve gotten myself into another fine mess. It seems I’ve built the better portion of my house on the neighbors land. I realize I dun it. I know it’s ridiculous …
However
I one more person asks me “howdy you do THAT?!?!” with that glazed look of incredulity that they all get when I explain the problem [...]

The prettiet red head I’ve ever seen

Rachel Charlotte Coghlan @ 9 months

who ..er… what …i mean why

I named my blog atyplical since my life IS fairly atypical. I have 7 daughters, I have built my own house, I work for an unsual Christian publisher (VisionForum.com) and I am a determined Christian presupposisionalist who is committed to the idea that God’s word speaks to and is instructive for EVERY area of human [...]

2 articles by Scott Brown

Both topics are near and dear to my own heart
The first is on modesty and can be found here and it’s a thought provoking essay on madesty and swimsuits.
The second is on how to form godly marriages and can be found here I guess it’s technically a blog entry and not a [...]

If I were King of the forest!

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty or mercy which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. Pilate was merciful until it became risky. —C.S. Lewis [...]

Ancestry

This is too cool ….(top right) a picture of my mom (front left) and 5 of her 6 sisters. The other 2 are of Pampa Chambliss — I’ll have to find out from mom how old he is in those pictures.

T.R. on life’s accomplishments

No other success in life — not being President, or being healthy, or going to college or anything else — comes up to the success of the man and the woman who can feel that they have done their duty and that their children and grandchildren rise up to call them blessed. [...]

kitchen in progress

Megan getting her daddy and mommie’s morning coffee.

I didn’t realize how grateful Deanna was to get a working stove in the house

here is the final layout of the kitchen we still need to put the sink into the island (just this side of the stove) and tile and trim out the whole thing, but by the grace of God it’s coming together. (left to right that’s me, Rachel, and Kaitlyn)

this one shows a good contrast between the (almost) finished kitchen and the rest of the house

a better look at the “rough draft” stage of the kitchen. Kim is going to kill me for publishing pictures of a “dirty” kitchen

this is the early stages of finished ….Kim’s uncle Dave is in the foreground (Thanks Dave for all the help!!!)

Ancestry

Willie Rube and Dorothy Mae Chambliss(my maternal grandparents)They appear here just the way I remember then as a kid.Pampa is about 74 and Granny is about 62

Today is Kaitlyn’s birthday!

She is (in her words) “a double digit midget” ….I will be blogging some photo’s of my Kate though out the day to commemorate her special double digit day!
Praise God for little girls …may he help me and their Mommy to raise them in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.