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Here are some random thoughts about my last 48 hours in which Lydia was at Grandma and Grandpas and Jenny was out of town and I took full care of Toby and Blythe. My wife is a saint and I could be done but I’ll include some more. My kids would not survive 48 more hours of [ READ MORE ]
Here are a few links to click for those of you who are trying to make it through your Friday. My friend Lon put this link up yesterday on Twitter. I probably wouldn’t have clicked it but I’m a fan of Jewel. I know -- now you’re really curious so you will click it. I was asked [ READ MORE ]
A few family pics for the rest of the family and our friends to enjoy. [ READ MORE ]
INSIGHT 6 There was one section of the park with one swing that wasn’t muddy or wet. Lydia quickly climbed in, and I pushed her and sang her silly songs. I think it went “Swing – Sing – Swing – Sing – Lydia Swings while Daddy sings.” I don’t spend enough time relishing in the truth that [ READ MORE ]
INSIGHT 4 At one point in our journey Lydia turned around and said she wanted to go back. We all do this. We get tired along the way. We don’t know where we are going and so we just give up. We miss where we came from. Or a list of other reasons, and we just turn [ READ MORE ]
INSIGHT 2 We were cruising along on our journey when a pattern started to develop. Lydia would ever so slightly but oh so consistently lean to one side of the path almost pushing me off it completely. Sometimes she was watching other people walking, sometimes the birds, sometimes nothing at all, and she would be headed [ READ MORE ]
I went on a daddy daughter outing the other day. Lydia rode her bike while I walked. During our time together, God revealed several simple insights into life, and I thought I’d share some of them with you over the next few days. INSIGHT 1 Early in our walk we came to a place where there were [ READ MORE ]
I am a fan of the game. I love going to games with Jenny. Looking forward to sneaking up to Minneapolis to hopefully see the Twins new stadium this summer. Here are my picks for the season. Feel free disagree with anything but the Twins winning it all! Twins over Mariners Yankees over Tigers Twins over Yankees Dodgers over [ READ MORE ]
Volleyball is huge in Cambodia and here is my story. Last night I was waiting for Ryan to go to dinner and I saw these two guys hitting a volleyball by the house we are staying at. I asked if I could play and the one guy said you want to play? I said yeah. He [ READ MORE ]
The first couple of days it was rare that I saw anyone smile. I’m not sure if this was my own insecurities peaking through or if I just happened to come across a number of people who didn’t smile but now everyone smiles. I know I’m the foreighner and so it is just natural to [ READ MORE ]