Since the boys had been cooped up in the house in front of the TV all week last week, I took them to the Dallas World Aquarium this morning. I have posted picture on both FB and LJ of them looking at all kinds of fish and birds in wonder. Miles loved the tropical birds at the start of our journey who ate blueberries by gently taking them from your ( Read more... )

It's not the Christmas present we expected. Dad's cancer has come back with a vengeance. He starts chemo again on Tuesday.

We got a year with him we didn't think we were going to have. Please pray for him and the rest of Balthrops until further notice.

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As we explained the concept of death to a small boy, this is what Simon said:

after she is done being dead, can she be alive?

we can't pit her in the ground, there are bugs there

I want her to move. She's not talking to me. I want her to talk

And when the grave was dug, and the prayers said, Simon reached into the earth and petted his first dog on the ( Read more... )

But is there a place that doesn't make me aware it's breast cancer awareness month?

The Allen Americans are playing in pink jerseys tonight.

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On the morning that an important dissident from China wins the Nobel Peace Prize, this was the lead stories on the broadcast morning "news" shows:

ABC: teen reality show star in jail.
NBC: women addicted to on-line crime game
CBS: random southern woman "we knew it was wrong but we did it anyway".

CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC were all talking about the mid- ( Read more... )

Simon standing in the living room with a pout the size of West Virginia.

Papa: where did that pout come from?

Simon (running down hall): ME

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The company will likely be open, but with a frozen neihborhood and the propect of driving icy country roads to retrieve the boys this afternoon, I am probably going to stay home. I'm waiting for the official word from BoA before making the final call.

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The company will likely be open, but with a frozen neihborhood and the propect of driving icy country roads to retrieve the boys this afternoon, I am probably going to stay home. I'm waiting for the official word from BoA before making the final call.

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Julie Fortune
Weather Wardens, INC
Arlington, TX

Dear Madam:

We understand the need to keep all the Wardens busy during the winter months, but why are you picking on poor Hati?

If at least two hurricanes were not enough, did you really have to send a 7.0 earthquake as well? Couldn't these resources have been better spent in such places as China, Iran, ( Read more... )

To make us get out of debt. I am grateful for het.

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