Today's the last day of Summer Break for the kids. A family in the church has a small pond and the kids are dying to go fishing again. So, we're off to catch the big one!

One of the guys who works for my Dad is also a volunteer fireman at the Chandler Fire Department. He set it up for our kids to do a little bit of exploring. The neighbors' grandkids joined us.


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Shortly after we moved here, the kids found a little friend that they'd visit every night. They didn't really do much with him, just touch him every once in a while.

Well, they are convinced that said friend is back. I don't know if he's the same one or not, but the kids certainly think so.

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The kids have a new toy outside.


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• Pandora Radio is my new best friend on the information superhighway.
• Two school carnivals two nights in a row. I'm glad schools only do these once a year.
• The kids won goldfish at the Cowan carnival last night. So, for the third week in a row, our pet population has increased (fish & a snail two weeks ago, guinea pig last week, two more fish this ( Read more... )

Hands-on

The kids decided an airplane wing would make a good Limbo pole.

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A few years back, I wondered on this Journal if there was something the church can learn from VH1 and MTV. I believe there is. I just haven't figured out the what or the how yet.

And now I have another observation. Churches could learn a lot from Nickelodeon, too. And no, I'm not talking about how to make goofy TV shows or what kind of animation ( Read more... )

It's Spring Break for both Christy and the kids. You never know - this might be the only time that their Spring Breaks coincide for a long time. So, Christy's making the most of it. We were originally going to take a few days and go to Nashville, Indiana. But with the unpredictability of both gas prices and weather, we decided it might not be ( Read more... )

i guess I was spoiled as a child. Of course, I didn't realize it at the time - but who does when they're in the middle of being spoiled? Every Thanksgiving, my Grandpa would buy tickets to the Hadi Shrine Circus. I didn't realize how special that was until I experienced other circuses. I had always assumed they were just like the ones I had ( Read more... )

Today, IU is going public with the allegations that the NCAA has delivered to them. We all knew this day was coming, but it sounds like things are worse than I'd hoped. Not good. Not good at all ( Read more... )