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Tonight, Hayley and I went shopping for a project she has for school. She’s supposed to build a castle. Other parents have rolled their eyes at this, and said, “OH…you mean the parent contest.” Evidently, even though all the stuff that comes [...]

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For Christmas this year, our two older girls chose a day of skiing–for the very first time–instead of presents. So last Friday, I got to take them to cash in. Good deal for me!
I love to ski, but I can’t pretend to be called a skier. Before this, the last time I skied was in [...]

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For the past couple of months, my two older daughters have been practicing each week for a play at church, “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever”. Hayley has been a member of the angel choir, and came home from practice excitedly a few weeks ago when she found out she got one of the few lines [...]

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Remember Happy Days, and how Fonzie could never say “I was w-w….I was wer…” He could never say he was wrong.
I remember a time when one of my daughters (who shall remain nameless) was a preschooler. I’d noticed she was finding it impossible to apologize, to admit she was wrong, when there were little blow [...]

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Ok, two things: First, I meant to be blogging about how good of a weekend we had (which we did), but other things came up (pun intended, as you’ll see in a minute). And second, I’m sad. I didn’t blog yesterday, ending my string of blogging SOMETHING for 14 straight days. Sigh.
But I must blog, [...]

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First day went about as good as we could have hoped, for all three kids. Aubrey…that girl is about as animated as they come. I wish I would have videoed her. I popped in at home to see how everybody’s day went, and she goes, “DADDY! I just got back from PRESCHOOL! And I didn’t [...]

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Our daughter Talli received the presidential academic achievement award today. That was a cool thing! I think it’s more fun being the parent for these things than the kid…

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Ok, read this paragraph, and tell me it’s not sheer genius.
Talli (my oldest daughter) wrote a story for school last week. She gave me permission to put the opening paragraph here on my blog. She’s in fifth grade. FIFTH GRADE! I read this opening and I almost cried. It absolutely sucks you in.
Lillian shivered, hugging [...]

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Those of you who come to my blog for the scintillating conversation about deep topics may be sadly disappointed over the next few days. As you can see from my posts on Thursday, I’ve entered a whole new technological nirvana-I can blog from my phone. With pictures! This is just way too cool.
So, today, I’ll [...]

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So now I’ve got the pressure to write something each and every day for two weeks, right out in the open in front of everybody. It’s bad enough feeling like you have to be entertaining and somewhat profound, but on top of that the Barclay Press people expect us to be spiritually enlightening and encouraging, [...]

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