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Epistemologically self-conscious books

How do you know your kids have been paying attention to all those lectures about choosing methods of entertainment that honor God?
“Mom, can we buy this book?  Please?  It has good presuppositions and it’s epistemologically self-conscious!”
Yes, one of my daughters really and truly said that to me this weekend at the book fair.  When I [...]

Happy birthday, Becca

Becca turned 7 yesterday, but I am a bad mom.  See?  I even start my daughter’s birthday post by talking about myself.
Why am I bad?  Because I didn’t do a birthday post for my daughter on her birthday.  Don’t be fooled by the date on the post; I cheated and backdated it.  See?  Bad mom [...]

Those *old* kids

Since I’ve only posted photos of Bethany lately, I thought I’d do a post about some of those old kids our other precious children.
Lydia and Bethany admiring Bethany’s reflection:

More fun in the mirror:

Rachael is cute enough to go solo:

Deanna looks great in her dad’s old hat.  Bethany’s little bald head looks adorable even without a [...]

Militant Fecundity :)


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.  [...]

God is a spirit

Today I was reading the book of James to Rachael, who is almost 4.  I don’t remember what prompted the question, but she stopped me to ask if we could see God.  I thought of the Catechism for Young Children: God is a spirit and has not a body as we do. I told her [...]

Comments on that newborn baby smell

3yo Rachael: “Awww, Bethany is so cute, Mom…and she smells like inside your tummy!”
Translation by giggling older sisters: “Awww, she smells like GUTS!”

Photoshop fun

Posted by : Deanna
Today Kaitlyn and I were holding the  baby and taking pictures and we decided to have a little fun with photoshop.
Did I mention that we are usually born with quite a lot of hair?

Pointless Frivolity


I am funny

I know this because today I saw a whole family in the truck next to me burst into laughter one by one as they looked over at me.
Although it was early in the day, my feet were already swelling. As usual, the left was far worse than the right. I like driving when [...]

Pets…

Posted by: Lydia (Liddybug)
We have 2 dogs, 1 cat, 2 rabbits, and 1 gerbil.
One of our dogs is a Yorkshire terrier named Precious (the one in the picture). She is ridding on Deanna’s rocking horse. I put the ‘Pony on top’ in her hair, we took about 15 pictures of her before we got [...]

He has no sense of humor of which he is aware.

Posted by: Deanna

Take a good look at this picture, what do you see?
I see, to quote Rudyard Kipling, a “man cub” , with big brown eyes, and long eyelashes like his Dad, an adorable buzz cut, a precious button nose complete with complementary dried boogers, and enormously  fat cheeks. Overall it’s a face no person [...]

Was I being cranky?

Today I took the big van and the little red-headed 3yo on a minor grocery outing. We only made 2 stops and spent ~$150, but I was pretty wiped out by the end.
It’s hot today, I’m 33 weeks pregnant, and I didn’t bring any big helpers. For each stop, I loaded the cart [...]

Now Children…

Remember, just because your mom is gone doesn’t mean you  can post to the blog without permission.
All posts must be approved by one of your parental units before publishing to the web. Yes Kaitlyn even you.
(and ESPECIALLY YOU Megan)
Love ya
Dad

…and so it begins….

one Dad

seven daughters

one son

two dogs

one cat

one hamster

two rabbits

1200 square feet

nine days

 
 
NO MOTHER!!!!…(to be continued)