I get a daily devotional from the Purpose Driven Life everyday. Most days I glance at the subject line and if it looks interesting, I’ll open it. Many days don’t interest me that much. I can’t tell you why the subject line “Margin or Marginless?” caught my attention today, but it did. I’m glad I [...]

My kids got some great toys for Christmas, particularly my two younger kids. My 13 month old got this really cute shape sorter elephant that I really like:

My 3 1/2 year old daughter got this adorable Fisher Price Little People camping set:

Aren’t those two adorable toys? Here’s the problem, though. It hasn’t been two weeks [...]

My sister-in-law and her husband just arrived in China to adopt two new little girls, Zoey and Kate. It’s unheard of for China to approve the simultaneous adoption of two kids unrelated to each other, but since they’re special needs kids, China made an unusual exception. The adoption of Zoey and Kate make 10 kids [...]

It’s time to say good bye to 2008. Hopefully we’ll all have a prosperous, safe, and memorable 2009. Tonight we’re at Great Wolf Lodge having a great time with our kids and my parents. I hope you, too, are having fun with your family and friends as you ring in the New Year.
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My parents are up visiting for a couple days, so we went out to dinner tonight. On the way to the restaurant, my dad, who was sitting in the passenger seat as I drove, and I were discussing how Little Man needs to wipe his own butt after he goes to the bathroom instead of [...]

Well, the past day or so has been a bit crazy. It’s been so crazy that I don’t feel very blissfully domestic right now.  Caring for a sick baby is certainly domestic, but it’s not of the blissful variety.
My poor little 13 month old son started throwing up yesterday evening.  He has recently been doing [...]

Now comes the “what I got for Christmas” post. For a couple of weeks leading up to Christmas, my husband had told me that I would really like my present. He said over and over again that I would think it was really cool and that he had to go to three places to [...]

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. We did. It was a bit hectic, but what Christmas isn’t, really. Anytime we have to fit in time to see family that is spread out over several states, we feel like we’re stretched a bit.
This year, we spent Christmas Eve and Christmas morning at home, our [...]

Merry Christmas to you and yours. I hope your day has been filled with joy.
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NORAD is tracking Santa! You can follow Santa’s path throughout the world as he delivers his presents to the good little boys and girls. Virtually all of Europe is done already. It’s amazing how efficient he is. At the moment that I’m writing this he’s in Amsterdam, Netherlands, which means it should be a fast [...]