turn on the light

Are you walking into a dark room?
Turn the light on!
And if you don’t turn it on, don’t ask for sympathy when you stub a toe on the chair leg.
Are you at a dark campsite?
Turn the flashlight on!
And if you don’t turn it on, don’t cry for sympathy after you fall in a hole.
 
Do you have [...]

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a little bit about me

…As if you needed to know more!
I saw this little questionnaire on Amanda’s blog today and thought it would be fun to do. I kinda have blog block.  There are a number of devotional posts simmering in the back of my head right now, and Halloween photos are not ready to happen yet, so I’ve [...]

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imagination..we haz it

I saw the first signs of imaginative play in Ginny last night.
It wasn’t much, but it was definitely there.
She took a wooden block.  Clearly not a food item, or in any way resembling a food item, picked it up, examined it with all seriousness, then putting it up to her mouth, took a pretend bite, [...]

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ginny at 13 months

Ginny at 13 months is….
delightful.
She giggles, she pretends to read (and turns pages really well), she loves to romp and wrestle and dance and clap.  Her new favorite food is cheese toast.  oh wow does this girl like cheese toast.  I think she would live on it if we would let her.
Words so far are [...]

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good elves in Dallas

God knows what he is doing.  I have a good story from this weekend in my head, and until it gets committed to paper (or pixels) it will continue to percolate at the front of my mind.  God knows this about me and He knows that I needed to keep those highlights from the weekend [...]

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somewhere there is a man…..

Somewhere there is a man…
Who is cursing my name.
How do I know?  Well.  There is a story.
A couple of weeks ago Atlanta had a flood. You may have heard about it.  Creeks and rivers washed over bridges, roads fell apart.  Every where if a road was low lying, it was swamped.
Two days after the flood, [...]

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