31 posts that were over 150 words each in 31 days. That was the challenge, and I’ve succeeded. But this has been about more than just the awesome pointsTM, this year I have managed to make this blog a purposeful place to share my thoughts and stories. I am completing this challenge with more than [...]
Our house is tall. Most of our day is spent on the main floor, the bedrooms are on floor 2 and the attic houses a playroom for the kids. Sadly, while there used to be a radiator at the bottom of the attic stairs and one in the attic they had been removed a long [...]
This one month, post-a-day blogging challenge only has a few days to go, and likewise my summer “vacation” ends in a week. Next Tuesday classes will begin and life will go back to more of a routine. I put the finishing touches on my syllabus today and tomorrow it will go out to the printers. [...]
Just thought I’d take the time to quickly share a training session from Dash this morning.
Get it!
Before we moved to Chicago we had a bunch of local friends and family and while there were a bunch of expected visits there was also the occasional drop in. People would call, give maybe a 10 minute lead time and Erron and I would frantically get the worst of our mess tidied up. I’d [...]
I think it is inevitable that when you live in the country you are going to have mice. We are directly surrounded by hundreds of acres of wheat fields so I am sure there are more mice out there than I can guess. Hundreds? For sure. Thousands? Maybe… I just checked the “Internet Center for [...]
Five weeks ago we got our cute, fuzzy little baby chicks. As jumbo sized eggs are 75 grams I would estimate that this is the maximum size of these just-hatched chicks that we brought home. We knew they were supposed to grow quickly, the hatchery had a little table that showed how much food they [...]
Petra, for all her stubbornness, is a great sister. Tonight Erron had to run into town leaving me with the 4 kids and we were upstairs watching Petra’s dance recital video. I had Micah on the bed with the kids and had stepped out to look for the remote. I was sure Micah wouldn’t wiggle [...]
Last week I was at work talking about the coming term with the lab personnel when someone stepped in to say,”Have a good weekend.” I thought maybe he was taking an extra day off, because it was Thursday. A few hours later I realized it was actually Friday and I couldn’t figure out which day [...]
And someday soon, we’re gonna find it. That probably made no sense at all, it would if you had a little girl who liked to watch Barbie movies. The general rule is, if the kids are awake the only thing permitted on TV is children’s programming. Some parents might watch the news or shows [...]