Drill Team, Princesses and the Best Mom Ever, Who is Me

I’m always looking for great new ways to play the hero to my children, while expending limited money and effort. Sometimes I really have to search for these opportunities and other times they just bonk me over the head. The past week Laylee’s been really acting up. We’ve made some changes at home, I’ve been [...]

Filed under: around town, dancing, women

Have Fun and Don’t Be an Idiot

The kids are growing up and doing stupid stuff. It takes my mind back to the good old days when I was young and doing stupid stuff and couldn’t understand why my parents were concerned. [Read more at Parenting.com]

Filed under: parenting

A Funeral for Hope?

Yes, it’s true. According to the Saturday Seattle P.I., hope is dead. While the rest of the country was desperately doing chest compressions, the Post Intelligencer decided to cover up a yawn and just call it. Time of death – 2am, Saturday, February 21st. It’s sad that they’re such Debbie Downers but they’re not the [...]

Filed under: around town, get serious

Fare Thee Well JackAgain

Poor Jack is dead. Poor JackAgain is dead. I noticed him laying on the bottom of the bowl a few days ago, his untouched pellets swollen on the surface of the water. This is not unusual for JackAgain. He will sometimes lie on the bottom of the bowl for days at a time as if [...]

Filed under: faith, save me from myself, shish

Laylee’s Mite

Laylee’s been trying to interpret and apply the biblical story of the widow’s mite. I blogged about it over at the Parenting Post. …She replied, “Maybe Jesus just decided he didn’t want people to give as much money to the treasury anymore so he was happy that she understood what he wanted and only gave [...]

Filed under: faith, parenting

In Mourning

I’ve been struggling with a stomach bug this past week and recently its friend the head and chest cold came to join the party so I pretty much feel like pathetic death on toast. But worse than that, my laptop experienced a hardware failure and has been gutted and shipped off to the computer hospital [...]

Filed under: near-death, technology