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Comment on Neighbor by Lenise

Lenise — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:11:05 +0000

My condolences. I often feel we’re failing our neighbors, too. No matter what though, we can’t defeat God’s Plan. For what it’s worth.

Comment on Christian Heavy Metal by Poacher

Poacher — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:18:08 +0000

Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation Anyway … nice blog to visit.

cheers, Poacher.

Comment on A Decade ago … by Paul Baxter

Paul Baxter — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:32:12 +0000

God has indeed blessed you and your children. Thank you for being willing to take on the heartbreaking role of foster parents!! It’s a wonderful thing to do.

-L

Comment on A Decade ago … by Jordana

Jordana — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:14:01 +0000

Congratulations on a special anniversary!

Comment on If Nautical Nonsense … by Jordana

Jordana — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:13:22 +0000

That is a problem with living far from grandparents. They tend to expect that family vacations will be to come visit them. My parents and my inlaws both live about 500 miles from us in opposite directions. It would be nice to visit them all every year, but it just doesn’t work out, plus it would be nice if those who don’t have kids could come see us instead.

One year we did take a “family vacation” to Chattanooga to see the aquarium and Rock City. That was a lot of fun and it was nice to do something like that independent of all family obligations.

Comment on If Nautical Nonsense … by Spud

Spud — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:06:34 +0000

It comes down to making vacation trips for the right/best reason, and not because you happen to be “due” to visit family. You want the kidlets to experience the world (within budget!) but not at the expense of family discord. Yeah, youngsters will misbehave and sometimes even seek attention, particularly when bored, and long trips are prime boredom opportunities.

Kristal and I talked about it tonight (we had a date night courtesy of Uncle Sam coming through with the big $$) and we decided not to make the Chicago trip. Instead, we’ll stick around the Piedmont. Now comes the fun part of telling my folks. Ionically, I anticipate some static.
[We let our zoo membership lapse, so now we have to pay to go, unless I can get some passes from work.]

Comment on If Nautical Nonsense … by Jordana

Jordana — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:11:17 +0000

We don’t travel very much, because it is a big pain in the neck. My children can easily turn an 8 hour drive into a 12 hour one and when we tried driving through the night we, the parents, were miserable the next day while the kids were bouncing around in their usual fashion. We also don’t have any car tvs, but we do listen to a lot of books on cd when we travel, which the kids like.

I guess it would be nice to take the kids more places, but instead we mostly sit around and wait for really special things like the the England trip to show up. Before that we hadn’t gone anywhere in a couple of years.

Comment on If Nautical Nonsense … by Paul Baxter

Paul Baxter — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:31:15 +0000

Ironically, we both began sentences with ironically on this post =]

(Lenise)

The boys and a friend and I were at the zoo today. I was thinking about y’all (and the DVD player)

Comment on If Nautical Nonsense … by Spud

Spud — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:21:45 +0000

Thanks for the offer, but I’m afraid with 3 young’uns there would be more fighting than watching with the DVD player. Ironically, Kristal and I just talked tonight about having a DVD player for the van (for the proposed trip).

We’re still leaning towards not going, as the girl showed again today that she is not ready for an extended van ride. We went to a brief party for the older boy’s soccer team this evening, where the kids had pizza for supper. With a playground next to the party area, she spent most of her time there and did not eat much. On the way home she kept telling us about how hungry she was, even after we kept telling her that she had to wait until we were back home (and to pipe down!).

I don’t want her to be “the bad guy” even though we need to work through these problems. Just no easy answers …

Comment on If Nautical Nonsense … by Paul Baxter

Paul Baxter — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:50:26 +0000

We haven’t watched SpongeBob. So far we’ve stuck with VeggieTales and Thomas, but then we don’t have a 10-yr-old!

We’re travelling to Ohio in about a month. Our kids travel pretty well, but the gas expense is nothing to sneeze at! (Ironically, I just sneezed). If you decide to go, you’re welcome to borrow our portable DVD player with 2 screens. My sweet aunt gave it to us, and my brother and I used it the last time we went to OH. Just let me know!