A Dad First

This past week has been a difficult one. The storm that came through the area hurt badly… The storm itself, with the snow and ice…it was fun at first. But then came the falling trees and limbs, the loss of power and heat, and being fairly stranded in our little area.  Was not so much [...]

It seemed like just yesterday that you (finally) came into our loves…after torturing your mother for 78 hours. Now you are 12. You changed our lives forever…and so much for the better. I could not ask for a better, kinder, smarter, or more loving daughter. And the fact that you have my sense of humor doesn’t [...]

The background of Sammy’s project is listed above under The Epic Project. He wants to start in South America, so the sovereign countries we’re looking for currencies examples from are: Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruaguay Venezuela Can you help, or do you know of someone in one of these [...]

…it’s Sammy’s birthday! He’s 10 today. Well, at 11:30 tonight, that it. Leave comments here to wish him a happy birthday!

Subtitle: What NOT To Do. If you don’t know the name yet, you should. Now would be a great time, if for no other reason than helping this post make some kind of sense. A good overview is here, courtesy of BusinessInsider.com. You see, he’s gone viral, and not at all in a good way. [...]

Have a little one that loves Wii? Performance Designed Products (PDP) has the perfect product: My First Mote™, a micro-sized, kid-friendly remote designed for Wii players with smaller hands that also features interchangeable Cars artwork. I saved this review for Christmas, to not only test how well it worked, but get Joshua’s reaction. Well, you [...]

The beginning, of course, is easy to see: the birth of the child, the beginning of fulfillment of prophecy, the very start of what would be a new faith. But Christmas was also an end. The end between divisions: between Jew and Gentile, between sexes, between cultures, between races, between rich and poor…between every division [...]

After the trip back into Tacoma to drive JoAnn and the kiddos home from JoAnn’s doctor’s appointment, I took her prescriptions to the Safeway pharmacy near the new house. As they were getting checked in, I was asked about insurance, and answered the pharmacist assistant that we’d be paying cash for them. He looked at [...]

I’ve been feeling like I’m fresh out. Of holiday cheer, that is. Last month was rough, with the less than desired moving (and an even less than desired time), with less than desired extra expenses. And while God was faithful and did provide, I also had about a 10-day period around Thanksgiving that was slower, [...]

One of the greatest benefits of homeschooling is the ability to tailor learning to the individual student and his/her learning style, as well as incorporate many different areas of learning rather than a single subject (like grammar). Sammy and I have been talking about and planning an epic project to begin in January. It’ll initially [...]