Posted on Friday, November 21, 2008 by Matt
In the winter, it’s easy to eat too much, get fat, argue, get depressed, and spend too much money. So it’s important to go outside, so you can be thoroughly miserable.
It’s even better to go outside with the family and take a long walk down into the wind until they get to the freezing cold [...]
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Posted on Sunday, September 21, 2008 by Matt
I saw this video today from www.Godaddy.com, the company that I host my domain at, and really thought it was funny. It requires a bit of bandwidth. To be honest, it’s a bit out on the edge, as far as parodies go. It’s making fun of the 3rd circuit court’s decision to nix the fine [...]
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Posted on Thursday, September 18, 2008 by Matt
The other day, I came home from school and the boys were just going at each other and wouldn’t stop. Mark kept climbing on Luke, or taking his stuff, Luke kept wanting Mark’s stuff, and John kept wanting to be held, the house was a mess, Holly was trying to make supper and Elisabet was [...]
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Posted on Monday, August 4, 2008 by Matt
Here’s a list of ten things that are true.
No one cares what I ate for lunch (Peanut butter & Honey sandwich on home-made bread).
Family members are more important than others.
Kids are a LOT of work.
There are different types of friends, not all friendships last forever.
When you have kids, you will see your best traits reflected [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 by Matt
Bob called early this morning and asked if we wanted to go sailing! The plan was to take the boys in the morning, so we settled on gathering at the boat at 10 AM sharp.
The Greta is a 35′ fiberglass sailboat that Bob & Margaret (My In-Laws) have owned for as long as [...]
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Posted on Saturday, September 8, 2007 by Matt
“He’s whacking me!”
The other day, at the Green’s house, Luke wanted to get Lydia’s attention so he walked up behind her as she sat playing quietly by herself, minding her own business, and WHACKED her on the back. Lydia almost fell over. Holly saw it all happen and went over to chastise him and explain [...]
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Posted on Saturday, May 19, 2007 by Matt
Holly likes to have nice meals where we sit down at the table as a family, say our prayers and eat good healthy organic food in a peaceful manner, talking and telling stories from the day. Lately it hasn’t been so peaceful.
For the past couple weeks, our one-year-old, Luke, had been trying to say something [...]
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