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Archive: May 2007

Received in the Mail: The Dangerous Book for Boys

While we ordered this book as a present for a certain young man we know whose birthday is coming soon, we will certainly be adding it to our own library as well. The first thing I noticed was the beautiful cover. Simple. Elegant. Bright red with...

Bodily Fluids = Love?

From Scott Peterson a gross, hilarious, moving post about parenting: And it occurred to me as I was changing a diaper last night that that�s what love is. It�s fluids. It generally starts with swapping spit, as the younguns used to say. From there...

Brede Slow-Reading Update

I’m making good progress in In This House of Brede. I’m loving it as much as commenters said I would. And, yes, it is very hard to stick with a chapter a day. Especially when I’m greedy and gobble up my chapter before lunch time as...

Hope

From Dale Price, a father’s reflection on the hope that those of us who have experienced the pain of miscarriage have for our unborn children. Excerpt: I have no particular objection to Limbo. But I don’t see a problem with the...

Bella Swinging

The other day when we went to the park I took this video of Bella on the swing. I love the way she’s laughing and babbling.

The colors are kind of off in the video. The grass really was green, not red.

Thinking Happy Thoughts

Is there any smell more intoxicating than that of baking bread? I just woke up from a mid-morning nap (one of the joys of having an older baby who finally actually naps!) to a house filled with the smell of fresh baked bread. The sun was streaming...

Are We Having Fun Yet?

Last week when mom and Bella and I took a walk to the park on the way home we spotted a trio of boys squatting on the sidewalk chasing bugs and putting them into a jar. Enchanted at the picture of boys playing with bugs, I stopped and asked them...

Prayers for Heather

Please pray for homeschooling mother, Heather, who is going in for surgery tomorrow to remove a brain tumor. She writes on her blog: My prayer for every single person reading this is that you find the peace that floods over me. That you realize that...

A Vocation or a Cross?

At Danielle’s blog a conversation about vocations and the single life . Danielle highlights one commenter who says that single life is not a vocation, it is a cross that people must bear: A thwarted vocation – whether to religious life...

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