Last night as I was cooking dinner I overheard Sophie singing lyrics to Wrecking Ball and when I asked her about it she said they've been singing it on the playground at school. I asked her if she knew much about that song and who sang it. She said she knew it was Miley Cyrus and so sometimes they changed the words. So she started singing the Jesus version of Wrecking Ball ... Read More »
Parenting
Crammed dishwashers and other cool stuff
Mitchell and Sophie are learning how to load the dishwasher these days. Emphasis on learning hence the entire 12 piece place setting of glasses crammed into one load. Randy and I were talking away at the kitchen table soaking up the great feeling of having our children clean the kitchen. This is totally new for them. They've helped with setting and clearing the table for a long ... Read More »
The new Barbie and body image stuff
I like this new Barbie that was created to portray a more realistic body type so our young girls don't grow up thinking the one on the left has to be the standard or norm. Would you believe me if I told you we are already dealing with body image issues in the first grade? Yep, we are. It took one boy calling our daughter "fat" to get the ball rolling. She came home and didn't ... Read More »
This too shall pass
Our animal loving preteen put his gerbils in the GA bulldog helmet lamp and delighted in their new play area while I was having a panic attack on the sidelines. Love that profile of our manchild that's turning into a young man. I keep reminding myself that I will miss these crazy pet antics that he pulls. The live bird he found outside and put in the purely decorative bird ... Read More »
A Merit Badge project that had all three of us crying
Our son is working on his Citizenship merit badge for Boy Scouts and so we had to attend a court case in our county. We met the Clerk of Court who was so nice to Mitchell and showed him around. He tried several court rooms before finding the one that he felt would be a good fit for us. He alerted the bailiff and court officials that we would be sitting in and there we sat on ... Read More »
What does it look like to be a Christian gamer?
Okay people how are you handling online gaming with your kids when it comes to multiplayer and the multi's are using bad language? And do abbreviated cuss words count? What if your kid thinks wtf stands for watch the fox instead of something naughty? Or what if you just ignore the language altogether? At the thought of not being able to play multi player Minecraft our son ... Read More »
Mitchell’s letter to the President
I'm not sure how the conversation got there but Mitchell started asking questions about marriage and populating the earth. How did Adam and Eve, the first family, populate the earth without marrying into family? And if we are all ultimately related to each other then why have marriage in the first place? Why not populate the earth without marriage? Just a few light ... Read More »
The out of date yellow school bus and why I want to ride it
Notice anything strange about this picture? It's clearly way out of date. Not because school buses are no longer yellow or less rectangular. But more like those kids. Earbud-less kids looking straight ahead and peering out a bus window. Where are the buried heads? (We won't ruin the comparison by noticing how overly crowded that bus is or the fact that the kids are just way ... Read More »