admin on July 16th, 2009

With one of my favourite Christian bloggers putting out a call for confessions, I decided to get inspired.  Heh.  No, inspiration just happened. Confessions! I am feeling more nervous, more unprepared, and more at wit’s end with this pregnancy than I have ever been with any of my other children.  (Duh, you’re having twins!) I [...]

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admin on January 26th, 2009

It is amazing how one little picture can change just about everything. Since that ultrasound image showing our twins came home on Thursday, we’ve been rethinking all kinds of things.  Basic things, like how the house operates.  We’re definitely getting even more serious about teaching the boys that they have responsibilities as part of the [...]

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First, thoughts on the venue.  In a bit of bad planning, they set the conference for the Thanksgiving Weekend here in Canada, so the sparse attendance I would say could largely be accounted for on that basis.  Only 150 or so showed up, and even that may have been an overestimation.  Still, if he was [...]

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admin on October 10th, 2008

So we’ve been offered a couple of passes to this parenting conference, held tomorrow all day.  It’s a big deal apparently, hosted by Dr. John Townsend who also authored a couple of books on the subject.  The fella who gave us the tickets also graciously arranged to have our pack of ruffians watched whilst we [...]

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admin on October 2nd, 2008

Oh Lord, sustain my children’s hunger for your Word.  Don’t let my own laziness or selfishness keep them from it.  I am so proud each and every night they beg me to read them a story from the Bible.  How easily that feeling is overwhelmed by the urgent, or by fatigue, or by petty distractions.  [...]

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