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 ….

Grrrrrrr

well I might just might lose my cool

I mean think about it.

I know did it.
I’ve had weeks and weeks to ponder the consequences.
Think about the possibilities.
Dwell on the magnitude.

and generally let the implications sink in.

Do I really need somebody else pointing out the obvious?

Rachel Charlotte Coghlan @ 9 months

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 endeavor.

I started this blog cause I want to chronicle a bit of personal history, share the some of the crazy ideas that pop in and out of my head and mostly I need practice writing for others (can you tell)

stay tuned …I got kitchen pics coming soon.

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 article but is sums up the basic procedure I intend to school my girls in.

Told you I was atypical

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 (1898-1963)

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.

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. —Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)

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!!!)

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

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.