Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Jul 28th, 2006 2 Comments »
Let’s see, where was I? Oh, yes, when we last left our heroes they had just heard there was a house for them to move into and wait. They were very thankful.
Tuesday Seth and Crystal went to this house and plotted out where we were going to put all our junk. They came back and [...]
Posted in Books, Quotes, Raquel on Jul 26th, 2006 1 Comment »
I just finished reading Ender’s Shadow (a parallel novel to Ender’s Game which I wrote about last February). While I enjoyed Ender’s Shadow at least as much as the first book I am not in the mood to analyze and explain why. Instead I will merely quote for you a couple of the parts [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Jul 24th, 2006 No Comments »
Well, folks today was one of those days. A co-worker of days long past (thank God) used to call days like today very days. Very up and very down.
So, today we had to scrub the house from top to middle and hide the fact that real, live people live here while still maintaining that [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Jul 24th, 2006 No Comments »
 So, there was this move scheduled for Saturday. Yes. Was. Brian the Seller does not have the work done on the house that he was supposed to and now he thinks it will take him to the end of August possibly the end of September. I have absolutely no idea what we are doing until [...]
Posted in Dinner at Lansberry's, Friends & Family, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Jul 20th, 2006 3 Comments »
 Tonight we ate dinner at the Lansberry’s fine abode. We ate Mutton’s Mush, salad and carrots and dip. At family worship we sang some hymns and I sang and listened and it made me glad. Jon, James and I heckled as Seth explained how to make a blog template to Raquel. Jon and Theresa [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Not Much of Anything on Jul 20th, 2006 5 Comments »
Um, you may have noticed that our blog template is different than it once was. I’ve noticed too. See, Raquel changed the template to the purplest template she could find in honor of July 19. Then somebody said she liked it better. Then we looked at it again and decided we didn’t really like the [...]
Posted in Poems and Stories, Raquel on Jul 19th, 2006 2 Comments »
A haiku about growing up–
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castles crumbling in the sand their makers have left to build castles of stoneÂÂ
Posted in Friends & Family, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Jul 19th, 2006 2 Comments »
Today is July 19th. Today is the Day of Purple. Three years ago today my mother put down her sorrows, her pains and her burdens and ran to be with her Father. Last year I took this day to remember my mother, but I will be honest and say that this year it just kinda [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Jul 18th, 2006 1 Comment »
Life has felt really heavy lately. Sometimes I feel a little lost. We went on our trip to Erie and when we left we had a house and a church. We got back and we don’t have a church anymore and we are constantly working on removing our presence from this house. We left full [...]
Posted in Raquel, Real Life Quotes on Jul 17th, 2006 2 Comments »
 ”Don’t take hold of other people’s eyelids without permission.”