Have you ever thought about laughter? about what laughter is? You smile, open your mouth and exhale forcefully. A sound comes out that people find amusing though if you asked most people if you have a funny laugh they will likely say no. The answer really is yes, but your laugh is no funnier than [...]
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I have always had trouble making biscuits. I had no idea what I was doing wrong, but ever since I started making biscuits I was only able to turn out these hard, tasteless shells of what a true biscuit is like. Then, the other day, I had a breakthrough. I actually read my recipe and [...]
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It is really loud around here. Justice will be crying about the horrible things we’re doing to him like changing his diaper. Noah will be crying because he just discovered the world doesn’t revolve around him. The two crys sort of wrap around each other and each makes the other louder. One of the older [...]
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Children are special. We seem to have lost that in our culture. We warehouse our children until the point we consider them humans, but by that point they don’t actually know us so we have angry teens and disgruntled parents. But children are special and we need to remember that. The Bible talks about children [...]
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I was recently talking to someone I don’t know that well for very long and I found myself having to say something once and then explain what I just said. I was a little puzzled, but the puzzlement didn’t last long because I have been becoming aware of the fact that I speak in shorthand. [...]
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Posted in Raquel on Nov 19th, 2005 6 Comments »
I once described my mother to Gabrielle as being “Like me, only more so”. I suppose that’s really backwards–I’m like my mother, only somewhat less so–but I’ve been amused at the accuracy this description. A couple of days ago my father was trying to ask her how her headache was and she said, “It’s okay”. [...]
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Posted in Raquel on Nov 19th, 2005 1 Comment »
For Adiel, and any other potential marshmallow (or even sticky puff) chefs in the readership, here is a marshmallow recipe. This has some quite helpful and detailed information on the making of marshmallows, however it is not the marshmallow recipe I used because it calls for corn syrup. This recipe does not call for corn [...]
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