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Judah loves to craft, in case I haven’t mentioned it before. But his crafting tends to be more about volume than concentrated effort on a few exquisite pieces of art, as I’ve mentioned before. So the other day, when he wanted to paint with watercolors, and I knew that would inevitably lead to 10 or so [...]

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In case anybody was wondering, I haven’t been not posting because I’m busy caring for a newborn – alas, I am currently 3 days past due and still counting. I was 3 and 2 days early with the boys and 6 days late with Monica. Naturally, I was hoping that this little boy would be early [...]

On a lonely tax season evening the other night I finally got a chance to watch Becoming Jane, which I had borrowed from the library. For what it’s worth, I enjoyed it. I decided before-hand that I would just try to watch the movie as a piece of fiction, not as an autobiographical documentary, and as [...]

All Done! (with the painting)

The boys cleaning up the tape and newspaper [...]

My first real bed. My parents moved me into it when I was a toddler, and I’ve slept in it most of my life (except for a couple brief stints in bunkbeds). When we married, the bed came with me. Same bed, same mattress. Purchased before I was born. Old mattress.

Simmons Beautyrest Full

At last, after [...]

Today, as we listened to some cello concertos during lunch I asked, “What instrument is this?” Judah responded, “The Cello.” (thank the Little Einsteins – I certainly couldn’t have told him that!)

I asked, “who wrote this music?” They weren’t sure, so I told them, “Johann Sebastian Bach.” (Judah at once informed me that this was what he [...]

For those of you who commented (on facebook) and prayed, thank you! Monica woke up this morning without an itchy bump to be seen and seems to be feeling fine. She slept in really late, which is kind of odd, but other than that, she seems to be normal. [...]

Monica got hives last week. Yes, I know, it’s an icky topic. I especially think that hives are icky;  just looking at them makes me feel slightly sick to my stomach and itchy all over. But, indeed, she did get a terrible case of hives last Wednesday morning, which continued until Friday and only stopped, so [...]

Did you see that my blog is all prettied up? Well, if you did, you can thank my brother, Ben and his wife, Emeth, who took it upon themselves to spend much of yesterday afternoon updating my blog. It feels nice to have a fresh new face on the blog. And perhaps I’ll be motivated to post [...]

Tried a New Hairdo

Looking [...]

During devotions, Michael asked Judah if he knew what cruel meant. Judah said, “Yeah, liked it’d be nice if it cooled down.” “No, not ‘cool:’ cruel.”

After which followed several attempts on the boys’ part to imitate their dad in saying “cruel.” Finally, Michael asked again if they knew what “cruel” meant and Judah replied, “No, I don’t know [...]

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Monica lost one of her new shoes today. I took the kids for a walk, and thought to myself, “I shoudn’t put Monica’s new shoes on.. she kicks them off and I’d hate to lose one of them.” But it was coldish outside, so I did it anyway. And sure enough, on the way home, when [...]

When I was making bread a few weeks ago I gave each of the boys about a 1 inch ball of dough to play with; primarily for Judah’s benefit, who really, really, really loves to roll real dough out with a rolling pin. He proceeded to get the playdough rolling pins (actual rolling pins, used for [...]

My clumsy-looking baby sleepsack and matching hat (my first true ribbon [...]

Back in January, I gave Judah a buzz. He was quite enthused about his haircut, telling everybody about it and apparently attributing all sorts of wonderful benefits to it:\par
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Judah: “I’m really happy!”\par
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Me: “Oh yeah?”\par
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Judah: “Yeah, I’m obeying…. from [...]