Sing, Pray, Work
This morning over breakfast, my two-year-old daughter Anneliese told me that church is “where we sing and pray and work!” Not bad for two years old, huh? I want to unpack that a bit for the missional church: Sing: the missional church sings songs of joy and sorrow. It gets down in the mucky-muck((A technical [...]
Tips for Teaching Computer Mouse Skills to Toddlers
Just a few weeks in, I don’t have to supervise or intervene often while Anneliese is playing her “letter games” on Starfall.com. But it took some work to get there, and I learned a few things about teaching computers to toddlers. Here are some tips:
Saturday Stretch, End-of-internship Edition
‘Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.’ – Revelation 3.20 (NASB) I want to leave a legacy. How will they remember me? Did I choose to love? Did I point [...]
WANTED: Sound Machine
I had so much fun writing this for our local Freecycle group that I couldn’t help but share it with our friends. Our 15-month-old has developed the charming habit of waking up singing with the robins at 4:30am every day this week. We think it’s because we’re out of the heating season and aren’t running [...]
More on Cloth Diapering
Jennifer was recently asked to give some more details to a friend of a friend who is considering cloth diapers. I thought her response was really comprehensive and would serve as a good update to my initial post on this from March. We use cloth diapers on our 6 month old and have since she [...]
Family Photos, May 2009
I’ve decided to stop making my photo uploads Anneliese-centric, because once in a (long, long) while I actually take pictures of not-Anneliese. These photos are highlights from May 2009.
Anneliese, Month Three
As has become my tradition, here is my monthly upload of photos of Anneliese. Of course, I realized in loading my pictures into F-Spot a few days ago that 80% of the pictures I take that aren’t really about Annie per se end up being of her anyway. But I think that’s just a normal [...]
Easter 2009
Jennifer, Anneliese, and I visited St. Louis for Easter this year. My grandmother, who is 92, is quite ill, and we wanted to be sure to see her and introduce her to Anneliese. We traveled down during the day on Good Friday and had dinner with my parents, and then we attended Good Friday services [...]
How to Get Started with Cloth Diapers
Jennifer and I decided that we wanted to use cloth diapers for Anneliese, but if you look it up online, there is a huge variety of information. Some of it is contradictory, and all of it is confusing. So after having waded through the morass of hype, spin, misinformation, and genuinely useful stuff, I decided [...]
Wrapping up month two for Anneliese
Here are a few more pictures of Anneliese to round out our pictures of her second month. Most are general, but there are a few from our seminary’s Coffeehouse, and one very cute one in honor of St. Patrick’s Day!