It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

It is fall. I love this time of year! It is getting colder, my wife is making soup, and now people don’t make fun of me for drinking hot beverages when it’s 90 degrees outside.
I even like Iowa this time of year, because it has some nice trees that turn colors other than brown or [...]

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Sam is 5

Today Sam is turning five, which makes us all feel really old and miserable. But what a blessing he is!
I love Sam’s zest, I love his big smile. When he laughs, he laughs with his entire self, body and soul.
So it came time to make the photo montage set to music of this past year [...]

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Tolkien and Chamberlain: a tale of two legends

Howdy all. Check it out, I do blog after all! I’ve been reading some great books, so I thought I would take a few minutes to share some quotes from them. I am mostly doing this in response to a grump I had with my wife concerning how Facebook and The Reader’s Digest Condensed version [...]

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The Talented Miss Gracie

Some of you may have seen this video already, but I wanted to post it on my blog but I forgot. So here it is, Gracie doing her amazing talent: being cute.
In this video, she shows how she can be cute and attempt to eat her bunny, make faces, and stick out her tongue, sometimes [...]

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I am now speaking with an English accent.

I have come to the conclusion that the BBC is absolutely and utterly brilliant. I’ve been trying to find some tv shows or movies to watch while I am giving plasma, because I can barely stay away anymore if I read, even if it’s a really really good book. I relax so much when I [...]

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More Fun with Sam

Today was the day that Sam and I planned to do Something Fun with Daddy. Being that it is July 3rd, and a Friday so nobody was at work, I was not particularly looking forward to going anywhere. But he was excited to do something, so off we went. Along the way, we formulated a [...]

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Sam, the Silly Sailor

A few weeks ago I took Sam out for his first trip in the boat, and of course we had lots of fun. We went to Saylorville Lake and puttered around for awhile.
Here he is waiting for the boat to fill with air.

And off we go! He thought that thing behind him was a whale, [...]

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In which my brain goes all wibbly-wobbly

Gracie has the most adorable smile. Lately, she has been smiling a lot, and crinkling up her little eyes when she does it. It’s so CUTE.
A few days ago I was feeding Gracie while I was reading “The Wizard of Oz” to the boys. I looked down at Gracie and she was looking up at [...]

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Writer’s Block Rears it’s Ugly Head

I’ve been wanting to blog for a while, but I cannot think of anything to write about. So, I will leave you only with this quote that I saw online yesterday.
“There is a fine line between genius and insanity, and I have erased that line and replaced it with a trout”.
It almost [...]

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Pirates of the Big Creek Lake…ARG!

This morning I got to FINALLY do something I absolutely love: I went boating! Sure it was 60 degrees and threatening to rain, but boating is so much fun and relaxing. Yesterday Erin found a bigger inflatable boat then the one that I had, and the bonus was that she found it at a yardsale [...]

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