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New Phenomenon – Laundry Basketing

January 21, 2012

My littlest is trying to start a new social phenomenon – laundry basketing. It’s the new planking. It’s contagious.

Good Times Over the Break

December 29, 2011

The last couple of weeks have been full of down time and family time, Christmas, and another birthday for yours truly. Here’s a couple of the highlights: Fossilized Dinosaur Dung – Apparently It Still Stinks My Littlest One Getting Her 1st Jeep Ride Hit the Star Wars Exhibit at the Discovery Science Center My son’s [...]

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O Christmas Tree

December 7, 2011

So we finally got back in our place and we wanted to get some Christmas up to help us get out from under the pile of crisis that we’ve been in. We worked hard and got the tree up and turned off the lights and turned on the tree and prepared to take a deep [...]

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Power, Siblings, and Identity

November 9, 2011

Here’s a 30 second video illustrating power dynamics and identify formation from the sibling perspective. Good reminder that some are in a position to get comfortable exercising power and others develop in situations where they are used to adapting to power. I took this video at a park about a year ago of my two [...]

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Is Pain the Key to Empowerment?

November 2, 2011

It’s timely to re-post today one of the most popular posts ever on my blog, or top 10 at least. Morgan’s got another jog-a-thon in the morning (Thursday) and it brings back a lot of memories documented here. She’s still nervous about it, because like one of her parents she takes everything super seriously [...]

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Virtue Halloween – Lions and Star Wars OH MY!

October 31, 2011

It’s that time of year! And I wouldn’t want to ignore our little lion. Kaelyn kept warm and played the part! And it’s hysterical we got the below picture captured. Lion outfit was true to form.

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Balancing the Milk

October 3, 2011

So this is either me messing around with my kid while he’s sleeping or he’s acting and showing off one of his great talents.

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Waiting, Timing, and Reward

September 14, 2011

My first post in the series I previewed will be coming shortly, but I’ve been thinking about waiting. Waiting is hard. A lot of time waiting is unnecessary and a passive excuse to avoid responsibility for making dreams happen. But sometimes we just have to wait and sit in the limitations of our capacity or [...]

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My 3 Year Old’s Christology

September 7, 2011

My son has given us some great moments this past month, particularly on the spiritual front. It’s clear he has a Christology of his own right now regarding who Jesus is and what he does. I’ll illustrate with three examples, all from the last few weeks. He may not be too far off the mark [...]

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