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July 2012

July 20, 2012

7 quick takes

oneThe pouring rain gets us out of going on any kind of outing today. You...

July 17, 2012

a huge thank you to cogs

Three weeks ago Good Shepherd threw a party celebrating these last ten years of our...

July 13, 2012

elphine turns ten

Elphine turns 10 today and has been up since 4:30. She is the one child...

July 11, 2012

hoof and mouth and stuff

 (Sorry about the horrible picture quality. Fingerprints all over my phone.)A lot of us have...

June 2012

June 30, 2012

i’m so embarrassed

It is really really hard not to become soppy and cliche about growing things in...

June 28, 2012

blown along

As usual at this time of the morning, there is some kind of crazed circus...

June 24, 2012

please pray

If you have a chance to pray for my friend  Lauren who blogs at Sparkling...

June 22, 2012

quick birthday takes

one If I was going to start a new blog (which I'm not going to...

June 18, 2012

hee hee

David Mitchell is doing soap boxes again! And since practically everybody at Good Shepherd stood...

June 16, 2012

ar·bor·vi·tae

 On Tuesday, a very cool awesome backhoe came to our yard to pull up and...

June 16, 2012

a little gardening

Last Monday we forced the children to help in the community garden. They worked hard...

June 12, 2012

cook with your children, the experts say

Elphine is making brownies. She's been making them since about 1pm this afternoon. I've been...

June 11, 2012

a decade

Another church picnic come and gone (yesterday). As I stood in the water at the...

June 08, 2012

7 takes to catch up

one I think its been a busy week but I can't really remember. My mom...

June 01, 2012

seven more quick boring takes

oneThe dogs are curled up together. It looks hot and uncomfortable. The two babies that...

May 2012

May 31, 2012

the pom among us

Yeah, so the dog is still here.He comes if you shout 'Bonzo' really loudly and...

May 28, 2012

why I’m a calvinist

My favorite part of The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass, and I'm going from memory...

May 28, 2012

the gentle idiot gardens

I have acquisitioned a plot in Good Shepherd's community garden. I plunked some seeds from...

May 25, 2012

seven boring boring quick takes

oneMatt and Alouicious are about to go to men's bible study. Alouicious usually calls it...

May 24, 2012

that’s not safe

Monday we all went together to take two of the children to their well baby...

May 21, 2012

monday morning haze

I'm supposed to be starting the Great Summer/Winter Clothes Change Over of 2012 and rousting...

May 16, 2012

poetry

There once were six children all whiningIn spite of their mother's insane cryingThat they should...

May 15, 2012

Ordinary Time

We are fast approaching the green season of Ordinary Time in the church year. The...

May 12, 2012

Happy Mother’s Day

I hope you'll are bustling about getting ready to honor your mothers in a serious...

May 11, 2012

order and balance restored to the universe

Somehow every single one of us have contracted varying levels of a cold. Nobody wants...

May 10, 2012

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May 04, 2012

seven quick quick reasons we need a dog

Last night a tiny baby squirrel was discovered chirping and freaking out in our back...

May 03, 2012

rein, rein, gueux eveille

gomme a gaine, en horreur, taie. "Queen, Queen, arouse the rabbleWho use their girdles, horrors,...

April 2012

April 25, 2012

try to be reasonable

Alouicious can't find his binder with his writing assignment in it. And he's hungry. Very...

April 23, 2012

weekend in review

Phew. What a weekend.Matt talked to the Mormons on Saturday evening. I desperately cleaned the...

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