It's hard to believe but it's true. September is over in a little over two hours. This year, in retrospect, is flying by. Joy and I were just talking the other day about how, when we were kids, Christmas just couldn't come soon enough. Nowadays, it comes entirely too fast. Wow. Only 86 days until the big day. Not nearly enough time to do all of the Christmas shopping we need to do.
Moving on from Christmas as a topic, yet again. Tonight I helped Molly start her own blog here on blogger. It's a private blog so only Joy, mom, Michelle, and me will be able to view it. She was asking me to sign her up after I sent her the invitation to read this blog. She'll probably have a little fun with it but, it's probably more of a novelty to her.
Anyway, gotta stop writing here and read our devotions for the night.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Black and White
This is a photograph I took a few weeks ago that I would really love to have enlarged to 18X30 or something similar. The only thing I worry about is quality and the price. It can be pricey, in my opinion, and I have no idea what the quality will be. Oh well. There's a first time for everything.
Monday, September 28, 2009
Another Post
Yes, another post. I just put Sophie in her crib for the night. She is already asleep; no crying. Right before that, I was helping Caleb make up the earliest draft of his Christmas wishlist. Actually, he wrote it down himself last night. Tonight, he asked me to type it up for him. As of right now, it consists solely of Mega Bloks Halo Wars building sets.
Is it too early to make a Christmas list? Not if you're a kid. I don't remember how the narrator said it in "A Christmas Story" but, he summed it up perfectly for me. For me, Christmas is still the pinnacle of the whole year. Sure, there's summer and birthdays and stuff like that but, come on. Christmas is the day. I think it's awesome that Molly and Caleb love Christmas as much as Joy and I do. I know that right now, their love of the holiday is mostly driven by "stuff" as it used to be for me. Now, I just enjoy watching their eyes light up when Christmas is just around the corner.
Soon, we'll be putting up our advent construction paper rings that we enjoyed cutting down last year. In honor of that, I went over to the Wolfram|Alpha website and plugged in December 25th, 2009. According to that site, there are 88 days until Christmas. Seems like a lot, but it's really not. Here's a link to the Wolfram|Alpha site that has the info.
Merry Christmas (too) early!
Is it too early to make a Christmas list? Not if you're a kid. I don't remember how the narrator said it in "A Christmas Story" but, he summed it up perfectly for me. For me, Christmas is still the pinnacle of the whole year. Sure, there's summer and birthdays and stuff like that but, come on. Christmas is the day. I think it's awesome that Molly and Caleb love Christmas as much as Joy and I do. I know that right now, their love of the holiday is mostly driven by "stuff" as it used to be for me. Now, I just enjoy watching their eyes light up when Christmas is just around the corner.
Soon, we'll be putting up our advent construction paper rings that we enjoyed cutting down last year. In honor of that, I went over to the Wolfram|Alpha website and plugged in December 25th, 2009. According to that site, there are 88 days until Christmas. Seems like a lot, but it's really not. Here's a link to the Wolfram|Alpha site that has the info.
Merry Christmas (too) early!
It's starting to feel more and more like fall. Maybe not so much today since it got close to 84 or something like that but, this morning I actually used the heater. According to the weather channel site, it was 59 degrees at 5:15am. Tomorrow the low is supposed to be 54. Why am I wasting so much time with this?
Anyway, I just dropped Molly off for her ballet class. Right when I pulled into the parking lot here at home, I realized that she left her water in my car. Oh well. At least it's not really hot today.
Today when Caleb got home from school, I read a book about salmon with him. He is such an excellent reader. Joy and I are very proud of him. And Molly, of course. Oh, and Sophie, of course.
Well, I really hope I can keep this up. I think my posts may be more boring than they used to be (in my opinion) but they may be more frequent. I want to communicate that sense of day to day life that we all tend to forget about as time goes by. We start to forget the little things unless they are associated with bigger, more memorable events.
At any rate, I'm going to at least try.
Anyway, I just dropped Molly off for her ballet class. Right when I pulled into the parking lot here at home, I realized that she left her water in my car. Oh well. At least it's not really hot today.
Today when Caleb got home from school, I read a book about salmon with him. He is such an excellent reader. Joy and I are very proud of him. And Molly, of course. Oh, and Sophie, of course.
Well, I really hope I can keep this up. I think my posts may be more boring than they used to be (in my opinion) but they may be more frequent. I want to communicate that sense of day to day life that we all tend to forget about as time goes by. We start to forget the little things unless they are associated with bigger, more memorable events.
At any rate, I'm going to at least try.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Tonight
Sophie's asleep now. She's getting much better at lying down and going to sleep in her crib. Tonight, she didn't even cry at all. Such a good baby. I guess I should mention that she is now really getting her top two teeth in. Oh, and she is pulling herself up to a standing position. And, when she doesn't realize it, she will stand without holding onto or leaning on anything.
I've decided to note this because I went through some of my older entries and read some stuff that the kids have said or done that, if I had not written here, I would never have remembered it. In particular, today I was reading a post from about four years ago where Molly was playing and chanting "906 O.K.I.R". I just barely remember that.
Anyway, I've pretty much made up my mind that I'm going to "privatize" this blog. I know I've toyed with the idea before but I'm pretty sure this time. I really want to be able to use this as a regular journal.
Well, I have to go now. Gotta help Molly study for her "5's" multiplication test. Zero through twelve is what it covers, I believe.
Bye!
Thanks for the memories... I think.
I've decided to note this because I went through some of my older entries and read some stuff that the kids have said or done that, if I had not written here, I would never have remembered it. In particular, today I was reading a post from about four years ago where Molly was playing and chanting "906 O.K.I.R". I just barely remember that.
Anyway, I've pretty much made up my mind that I'm going to "privatize" this blog. I know I've toyed with the idea before but I'm pretty sure this time. I really want to be able to use this as a regular journal.
Well, I have to go now. Gotta help Molly study for her "5's" multiplication test. Zero through twelve is what it covers, I believe.
Bye!
Thanks for the memories... I think.
What to Say
As always, I've wondered: what is the real purpose of this blog? If it's a journal, then it's obviously not a very private one based on what I've written here. If it's a place for me to link to other sites/stories then, I obviously am not doing that. Maybe I haven't closed it for old times' sake. Maybe I just want to see how long Google will keep Blogger around.
Maybe I just felt like posting something today with no real reason.
Maybe I just felt like posting something today with no real reason.
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