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Hairspray
misc/beard2_bigRainier Maute, a dashingly whiskered trucker from Albstadt, Germany, plans to compete in the Olympic Games later this year. It may be surprising that the 48-year-old smoker has a shot at a title. But Maute says he follows a strict training regime to keep in top form. Each morning the former world and European champion […]
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Quote of the Day
album06/IMG_0133Tom (in the middle of installing a cable modem): “Thomas, you’re touching me. Take a hike. Go play in another room.” Thomas: “Dad.. this is the FAMILY room!”
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Costume Party – March 23
On Wednesday, the kids and I threw a costume party here! Costumes were required for children and moms! There were nine moms and twenty kids. Everyone brought food to add to a smorgasbord lunch, which included munchies (chips, crackers, pretzels), cookie-cutter cut peanut butter and strawberry jam sandwiches, fruit salad. For desert, we had jello […]
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Forgetting to obey
Always trying to improve. Here’s a thought on parenting. If a parent gives a child a task to completed that is out of their range of sight, and the parents comes back a half-hour later and it’s not done and the child says that they “forgot” that their parent had told them to do something, […]
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Mean Ladies Need Spankings; Naps
PicsOfKids/4kids2Today, I took the children to get their picture taken. I had a coupon for a free sitting and free 8×10. Everything was fine until we got into the studio room.
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Mono?
Right before I left for Australia, I found out that my friend and coworker Bill was really sick down here. He missed work a few days, and when he went to the doctors, they told him that he had all the symptoms of mono. He was out of it for a few days, and we […]
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Nice
The number one search string to find our website this month is “roppongi foreigners death”, due to this post. I’m actually the number #13 link on Google for the terms. Weird. Actually, I was in Roppongi this trip, and I had a good time, and never felt at all unsafe.
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Free Wireless at Narita
Now that’s more like it. Remember when I was saying how the United lounge at Chicago O’Hare disappointed me because I had to pay for my wireless connection in the business lounge, and because I had to pay for the alcohol? Well, they can take a lesson from the Qantas lounge at Narita Airport in […]
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Obligatory Pictures
album09/IMG_0343I guess if one goes to another country, that one must take pictures of things. It’s no lie to say that I haven’t seen the sun in five days. It’s making me irritable. Anyway, check out my obligatory Tokyo pictures.
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Sink Reflections – Chapter 2
misc/sink Chapter2: Let’s Talk about CHAOS and Clutter I think the acronym Cilley uses, and the fact that it spells a word meaning what happens as a result of clutter is just fabulous: Can’t Have Anyone Over Syndrome “Is your perfectionism one of the main reasons for clutter and chaos in your life and home?” […]
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Status Report
How sad is it to be in one of the most amazing cities in the world, and not being able to take the time to enjoy it? I’ve been working 12-14 hour days for the last week, and it’s really starting to take a toll. Thankfully, though, we turned the system back over to the […]
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Sink Reflections – Chapter 1
misc/sink I am really enjoying the book Sink Reflections by Marla Cilley, founder of FlyLady.net A few thoughts that stood out from the first chapter: “Your home did not get dirty in a day and it is not going to get clean overnight” “It all starts with a shiny sink.” Baby steps! The “Shiny sink” […]
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From Maintenance to Nurturing
Part II: So how does one move from maintenance to nurturing? First, we must realize that children are not ours, but the Lord’s. Yes, we carried our children for an average of nine months. Yes, we are responsible for their care. We are very, very involved in the raising of our children. Yet, while we […]
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Do you know what causes children?
I recently subscribed to a Christian listserv called “QuiverFull” for parents of large families. I have found it very encouraging to hear everyone’s ideas on ways to take care of all of their children and yet prevent individual children from slipping through the cracks. One of the recent threads was on responding to people who […]
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36 Questions
Tom would kill me for posting this… except that he’s not here! The monkeys have taken over the radio station. — “Change all the answers so they apply to you, and then send it to a whole bunch of people (including the person who sent it to you–me 🙂 The theory is that you will […]