You know how your grandma told you that all of her children were potty trained by 13 months? And you know how although you don’t believe her for a minute, somewhere in the back of your head you hope that it’s actually true? Because it gives you some delusional hope that maybe your baby will [...]
Archive for June, 2008
My potty training baby
Posted in kids, tagged family, kids, life, potty training on June 30, 2008 | 4 Comments »
What Liberals Don’t Get
Posted in culture, politics, tagged charity, culture, liberals, politics, religion, soup kitchens on June 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Tonight I was listening to This American Life on NPR. The story I was listening to was about 2 middle class guys who became homeless in New York City and lived in the streets for a couple of years while becoming writers. While being asked about what it was like to be homeless, [...]
A Gathering of All Believers?
Posted in religion, tagged christianity, church, life, religion on June 28, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Last night I wrote about my theory that the church is not effective in large part because of its divisions, that this ineffectiveness and division leave many people wandering and doing what seems best to them and that in order to counter this the church needs to reconsider its basic conception of itself. Today, [...]
American Dreams
Posted in culture, tagged American Dream, culture, life on June 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Barna Group just put out the results of a survey of Americans asking about their ideal life. According to the findings, over 75% of us view the following things as “very important” parts of our ideal life:
Have good health (85%)
Living with a high degree of integrity (85%)
Having one marriage partner for life (80%)
Having [...]
Wandering Souls and the Divided Church
Posted in religion, tagged america, church, denominations, life, pew research, religion on June 28, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Those of you who are interested in such things have no doubt heard about the latest Pew survey on Religion in America which was released last week. It shows an America which is deeply religious yet growing ever more open to other faith traditions and less and less dogmatic about their own. In [...]
I’m driving my husband crazy
Posted in family, tagged cleaning, family, life, marriage, messy, organization on June 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There are people who have habits – ways that they do things day after day. These are people who put things back in the same place each time they clean them up. Those who follow routines in their daily lives. Then there is me. I don’t have habits – I have tendencies. I could take [...]
Our Suffering and the Cross
Posted in religion, tagged christianity, life, religion, suffering on June 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Over at Jesus Creed, a regular comment box writer who goes by RJS has been doing a series of posts on a book called The Reason for God. It has been a great series, but for whatever reason, today’s installment particularly struck me. It discusses Chapter 13 of the book, which is The (True) Story [...]
In Search of the Perfect Curriculum – Help!
Posted in homeschooling, tagged books, curriculumn, education, homeschool, literature on June 23, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Ok, so I’ve decided to bite the bullet, pay the cash and invest in some actual curriculumn for my boys’ homeschooling for the next year. However, the problem is what curriculum. I’m not really interested in “school at home” type curriculum like A Beka. For kids my sons’ age (particularly the older [...]
Activist Judges on Steroids!
Posted in culture, tagged courts, crazy people, family, fathers, life on June 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Oh my goodness! We’ve all heard complaints about “activist judges”, but this moron in Canada absolutely takes the cake. A judge in Canada has overturned a father’s decision to ground his 12 year old daughter from taking a 3 day school trip because she thought it was “too harsh”. I kid you [...]
Not So Useful Information
Posted in life, tagged deer attacks, humor, life, silly on June 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just opened my email to find an oh-so-helpful email with the subject line: 5 ways to survive a shark attack. Because shark attacks are a constant threat here in Wisconsin, dontchaknow? Now, if they could put out an email on 5 ways to survive a deer attack or 5 ways to survive [...]
