Category: Social Media

Now that JoAnn’s van is finally fixed, thought I would detail the goings-on regarding this whole fiasco. It all started back in January. JoAnn, the littles, and Evanna were up at Seattle Children’s for appointments. After the appointments, they were in the process of leaving Seattle when a King County Metro bus hit her van…

For many years, I’ve had other families ask about how they could protect their home networks and filter their internet traffic like we’ve done. There are varied options such as using pia vpn (or other similar others), but the answer was never what we’d hope for. The problem is the method we’d used wasn’t simple,…

Wife had heard some good comments about the show Call the Midwife, so we started watching. We were hooked instantly. First, there’s the topic itself: midwifery. We’ve always been that family that uses midwives and planned for home births or non-hospital births (though all but one kiddo had other plans). But the show is very…

The outpouring of love and encouragement since we put out the news about the concerns with Evanna Joy have been amazing. We definitely appreciate and cherish the prayers and words of support. There’ve been times, though, where it feels like some have almost expected us to be distraught rather than hopeful, stressed rather than at peace. But…

I’ve always struggled with Father’s Day.  Not with being a father…that part I like and cherish…but with the other side of the equation and not really having had a father. So whether you are without a father because of his choices in life, or distance, or even death…you are not alone. There are two things…

It’s been a bit since there’s been an update, and while we don’t have much in the way of new information (because the other appointments haven’t taken place yet), there’s a little bit to pass along for those that have been following and praying. Yesterday was the formal intake appointment in Tacoma where the prenatal…

I’ve waited several days to write this, for several reasons: to avoid the knee-jerk reactions that we’re seeing all around us; to collect my thoughts; to allow for additional information to come from the investigation; to not appear to be jumping on the bandwagon that so many in the media, in politics, and in social…

A social construct is, according to those that profess such ideas, an idea or notion that appears to be natural and obvious to people who accept it but may or may not represent reality, so it remains largely an invention or artifice of a given society. Therefore, those things deserve not only to be challenged, but…

We (FINALLY!) got the call from the doctor’s office with the genetic test results today. And…everything they test for, including the big concerns, all were negative. Every. Single. One. Of. Them. Phenomenal news. So what we are looking at are physical issues, not chromosomal abnormalities or other genetic issues. Also: the baby is a girl!…

This post isn’t about the baby…at least not directly. This post is about the oldest. A few days ago I was looking at something from her Instagram posts, and saw the ultrasound pic, then read the below [and sorry that the WordPress embedding feature doesn’t show the lines between paragraphs…]. And I almost started tearing…