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Poll: do we try to sell you too much, too often?

Tell the truth: do you get annoyed because we try to sell you stuff so often?
First, hear me out.  We don’t just try to sell you anything and everything.  Probably 90% of our sales pitches represent family endeavors.

Vision Forum: Hubby works there, and what’s good for his employer is good for our family.  The children [...]

It’s here!

Maybe you’re not as excited as I am, but then again maybe you are: Wordpress 2.7, Release Candidate 1 is officially ready.  That means that even responsible, conservative people can upgrade now without apologizing for being impetuous.
You’ll love it.  We’ve been loving it for weeks and upgrading nightly as they tweak it, because upgrading is [...]

Wordpress 2.7

I don’t usually blog about Wordpress, but since we’re users this is really exciting to us.
Wait.  Users?  That makes us sound like addicts, doesn’t it? umm…well, I…
Moving on:  Did you see our blog go down Sunday night for 10 heartstopping minutes?  We took the jump to 2.7.  Hubby just couldn’t wait.  He’s impetuous like [...]

Homeschool Blog Awards (dad’s edit)

Perry III’s edit:
Please do not vote for INASHOE in the “Live what you Believe” category.
Please Vote for “Our Homeschool and Other Such Happenings” instead. Read THIS POST and I think you will agree with us THEY ARE truly living what they believe.
edit: I’m bumping this post to the top once more for old time’s sake.  [...]

My new widget

Did you see it in the sidebar?  Don’t let its simplicity fool you.  I put a lot of work into this little little baby.  IT’s my own custom widget to share Vision Forum deals.  Believe it or not, I had to build a new blog to power it!
My new VF Deals widget will alert Vision [...]

Upcoming events

Conference in December at Scott Brown’s church: How Can the Church Family? Messages will include:

How Should Your Family Relate to the Church?
What Does a Healthy Church Look Like?
What kind of Home Life Makes for Strong Church Life?
The Biblical Pattern of Family Integrated Discipleship
Surviving Tough Economic Times
How Should We Worship God?
When Cultural Patterns are At War [...]

Excuses, excuses

What’s happening to me?  Usually I have to drag myself away from the computer, and lately I can hardly force myself to blog.
I feel consumed with mothering.  It’s not that I’m doing it any better than I have in the past.  It’s also not that I’m complaining or feeling unusually burdened.  I just can’t seem [...]

Pet meme by Meg

Please make it fun and play along!
The Pet Meme

What is the first pet you remember?Cinder our cat. She ran away when I was 3yrs old.
How many different kinds of pets have you owned? Dogs , Cats, Stick bugs, Gerbils, Baby birds, Geckos, an Armadillo, and a mouse ( I secretly saved him from a trap.)
What [...]

The Pet Meme

After 3 years online, we’re finally turning over a new leaf and starting our own meme. Please make it fun and play along!
The Pet Meme

What is the first pet you remember? Meesha, a female Doberman mix.  When I was 5 she was picked up by the dog catcher and adopted out before we could [...]

6 Things meme

This is Lydia.  I should have done this earlier. I decided to test a wrist walkie-talkie, anyway that is a story for another day.
Mom tagged me for the 6 things meme.
The six things meme
The rules:
1. Link to the person who tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Write six random things about yourself.
4. Tag [...]

6 Things About Dad

Dad’s Accident Prone 6 things

I have a misshapen third finger on my right hand because my Aunt (hi Aunt Gail) closed an apartment door on it - when I was 1
I fell out of a car (doing about 30) when I was 2
I have been run over by a car - when I was 4
I [...]

Oh, beautiful day

My hard drive is good.  That’s what my new best friend Jason told hubby, and I have my brain all my important files backed up onto another computer.  We still have to put the laptop back together with either the old hard drive (which Jason feels is still reliable) or the new one from Dell.  [...]

…We interupt this blog with a special announcement….

For all you Vision Forum fans and affiliates out there who have been waiting for VF to start serving up content you can blog more easily….well wait no more!
Vision Forum has just launched the official VF YouTube channel….but wait there’s more….
You don’t just get great Vision Forum content as an added bonus there’s a San [...]

In which spam makes me laugh

Even the most innocuous spam is usually just a waste of time at best, but I had a good laugh over this one:
Hey look at me! I’m spamming your blog with my comment! Can you do the same?  - Howie
Thanks, Howie.  I didn’t visit your site, and I won’t be leaving you any comments.  [...]

Testing, 1-2-3. Hey, is this thing turned on?

Am I boring this week, or is the rest of the world spectacularly busy?  I don’t think I’ve ever seen the comments go this quiet.  I can almost see the tumbleweeds blowing past.  It’s ironic because I just installed a new Wordpress plugin to help manage comments and I can’t wait to take it for [...]