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Amy’s toddler

Amy’s 2yo was taken to the hospital yesterday with excessive vomiting, chills, hallucinations, and a fever of 105.4. Please join us in prayer for little Rebekah and the rest of her family as they wait for a diagnosis.

It worked

Not that I was worried, but oh boy did it work.Just in case you’re wondering, the girls are stacking and arranging: 4 – 8oz bars of Hershey’s Special Dark Chocolate 2 pints of Hagan Daaz Mayan Chocolate ice cream a 3.5 oz bar of Green & Black’s organic bittersweet 70% dark chocolate untold bags of [...]

I did this with the HTML I am learning!

Kaitlyn’s try it page My Dad wants me to learn HTML for part of my school One of the things I might do with the HTML I learn is make a new template for my blog. My address is: Kaitlyn C234 A Wierd Named RDHill Contry, TX 71234 I did this whole post in the [...]

Some men worry…

About overly subtle wives. They worry about missing the little clues their wife leaves. About being oblivious to the signals she feels are too obvious to miss… …I’m glad I DON’T have to worry about THAT

mmmm…chocolate….

Godiva, See’s, and Ghiradelli are heavenly, but for everyday chocolate nothing beats Hershey’s.Say what you will, there’s just something about sinking your teeth into a big hearty chunk of Hershey’s Special Dark Chocolate.It’s good enough for all but the snobbiest chocolate snobs, and cheap enough for guilt-free consumption.I’m just mentioning this because…well, because I’m down [...]

WFMW: don’t lose your posts

Blogger has been hungry this week, probably due the new features they are rolling out in the beta (did you hear about that? Categories, even!). I lost – or almost lost – several posts and quite a few comments when I hit the publish (or even the Save as Draft) button.But I have an easy [...]

Test of Picasa web albums

8 weeks Aug 23, 2006 – 29 Photos

Thumbsucking

I have received another email on the topic, so I thought I would move this comment to the front page and elaborate a bit. I would love to hear your comments as well, since our own experience has been limited and every child is different! How do you break your kids of thumb-sucking? I have [...]

All in one

We don’t often get a picture of all 8 children together, and I won’t try to convince you this one came naturally. But I love the way it turned out!

Vision Forum deal

If you like Vision Forum or great deals, you’ll love this!

Thursday thirteen: Happy Blogiversary to me!

updated: crazy Blogger posted this rather than saving as a draft (at least I’m going to blame it on Blogger since I just found out). What’s worse, Blogger didn’t even have the common sense to post the complete version.So if you read this post and wondered why I thought today was Thursday or whether a [...]

A science day

Does any of this strike you as odd? I spent $20 on blank and prepared microscope slides to use in our $1.50 thrift store microscope – the one I almost didn’t buy because I thought it was $3. How cool are they? Our kids want to find out if there’s an affiliate program for the [...]

Recipe carnival

The gracious Headmistress, one of my favorite bloggers, has posted the latest Carnival of Recipes, with delightful and delicious quotes throughout. Even if you don’t go for the recipes, go have a tasty literary treat.My favorite: Eating is an extremely old custom and has been practiced by the better classes of society almost without interruption [...]

Extra-curricular activities

I received the following question from a reader: My wife and I have recently been led by God to give our family?s size over toGod?s will (i.e. ? no more birth control), and consequently, I?ve been thinkingabout all the different aspects about having a big family (God willing).That being said, I will definitely be using [...]

Family Activities?

My wife recently received the following question from a reader of her blog. Derek asks “Kim, My wife and I have recently been led by God to give our family’s size over to God’s will (i.e. – no more birth control), and consequently, I’ve been thinking about all the different aspects about having a big [...]