Jack is a boy.  This is obvious, but I really have to keep reminding myself of this fact.  When he’s throwing himself around the living room banging into everything, climbing all over me and Mark until we can’t stand it anymore, banging everything, yelling, dumping a whole bucket of sand over his head, etc. I just have to remember he is a boy.  I am...

FEUDALISM: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk. PURE SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else’s cows. You have to take care of all of the cows. The government gives you as much milk as you need. BUREAUCRATIC SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and put them in a barn...

Since Jack has been so into Selah music lately, I ended up on their website and read about the death of the daughter of Todd Smith, one of the members of Selah. I clicked over to his wife Angie’s wonderfully written blog and spent at least an hour reading through their experience.  They found out at 20 weeks gestation that Audrey had physical problems that...

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Wow… I just noticed how big his hands are!  Taking after Daddy...

When Mark interviewed for the job transfer within the big giant bank he worked for to move to Texas this Spring, he specifically asked if there were any plans for the department to be “offshored” to India, since part of the reason he wanted to transfer was that his current department was in danger of being offshored. He asked several times and they told...