One of Jack’s favorite passtimes lately has been listening to music.  He listens to the CD player by his bed as he’s having rest time in the afternoons, he listens to all his favorite Selah songs in the car and he loves to put a CD in the computer and watch the “visualization” that Windows [...]

Yesterday went went over to the Ft. Worth Stockyards with Mark’s brother who is in town on business.  This is the first time I’ve ever been there, despite having lived in this area for 14 years when I was younger.  We had a great afternoon shopping and eating, and then we went to the Rodeo [...]

“I’ve got a secret… Mom doesn’t know what she’s doing. She’s just making it up as she goes along.”

When is this boy going to get some hair?!  He still has about what he was born with, except it’s mostly gone from his ears. Yes… he had hair on his ears. I was worried he was going to turn out like this guy, but thankfully no.

David rolled from his tummy to his back last [...]

I’m terrible about remembering to do “tummy time”, and with Jack, he would get frustrated immediately trying to lift that big bowling ball head he had. David is more patient, and even with very little time spent on his stomach, he got up on his elbows last night.

Jack has never really been as into cars as much as your average boy… until very recently.  Mark has always been a pack rat apparently, and he still has MANY of his toys from his childhood, among them two sets of tracks. We stopped at Mark’s parents on the way home from Ohio and brought [...]

I really appreciate the many ways the internet allows me to stay connected to my family so far away.  I’m always looking for new things that will help us feel “present” in each other’s lives, even though we’re not physically present. I love blogs for that reason, but that’s just not enough for me. I [...]

One of best things about living where we live is the number of playgrounds there are. They are everywhere, and they clearly are an example of taxpayers’ dollars hard at work.  One of the playgrounds is so huge, it literally looks like they went to the manufacturer and said “we’ll take one of everything” - [...]

David with his beautiful Aunt

Thank goodness God gives us children to help sanctify us.  Read the second half of this post.

David is a happy boy, with a sweet smile and giggle, and did great on our recent 20 hour drive to Ohio.  I was so relieved, because that’s a long time for anyone in the car.  He’s sleeping well- usually for at least 7 hours at night.  He’s starting to grab and bang on things, [...]

I’ve been wanting a new camera for a LONG time.  It’s not that I didn’t love my Canon point and shoot, but I’d see pictures taken with a digital SLR, and kept wishing I had one.  I waited until the price came down to under $450 for the Nikon D40 and finally decided it was [...]

Jack is a boy.  This is obvious, but I really have to keep reminding myself of this fact.  When he’s throwing himself around the living room banging into everything, climbing all over me and Mark until we can’t stand it anymore, banging everything, yelling, dumping a whole bucket of sand over his head, etc. [...]

FEUDALISM: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.
PURE SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else’s cows. You have to take care of all of the cows. The government gives you as much milk as you need.
BUREAUCRATIC SOCIALISM: You have two [...]