One of our favorite foods is Skyline Chili. It’s a regional delicacy for Southwestern Ohio. Specifically from Cincinnati. There are many brands of “Cincinnati-style chili” but we like to think Skyline is the best. (Of course, Chi might tell you it’s Empress Chili… but I’m sticking with Skyline.) Over the years I have taken a…
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Report From The Home Office…
I absolutely love that I can work from home. It’s fantastic. I can regularly see my kiddos… take breaks and be with my family… I have access to everything I need at home (or at the office, I suppose)… But man are there days it’s hard to get stuff done!!! Today I have: played basketball…
What A Day!
Today began rather early, for a Sunday. I woke up at about 8:30 or so… and everyone was sleeping, but I wanted to get up for two reasons. First, I needed to mow, and I knew it was going to be HOT… so the earlier the better! Second, our neighbors were shipping out at 9:30,…
We’re Off To The LEAH Convention
We’re headed to the LEAH (Loving Education At Home) convention! It’s one of Jen’s favorite times of the year. She loves the home school convention! This year we’re taking Ian, too! Should be a fun time. It’s also funny that we have a good friend named Leah. What if there was a convention named after…
Trust In Action
I’m having a difficult time right now. I know something to be true, even able to put it into very clear words in a conversation with some friends. But I’m having trouble knowing what to do next. I know God will take care of my family. I know that I am not the provider for…
Memorial Day Weekend
Wow! What a crazy weekend! (You know it has to be if I’m writing about the weekend that WAS on WEDNESDAY!!) I certainly don’t have time to detail all the fun that was had over the long weekend right here, but the brief recap is… Friday we gave our vocal chords a rare work out…
Distractions
The boys and I are reading through Luke (I believe I have already said that…) and today Jesus was addressing another crowd (SIDENOTE: I posted an entry here before about how it seemed that Jesus was not usually speaking to crowds but more to small groups and even individuals. It seems however that in Luke,…
God Can Throw You Into Hill
Following our morning Bible reading time the other day, Jen was eating breakfast with the kids – may have been also reading a book to them – when Alex interrupts to inform her that, “God can throw people into Hill.” She was probably a bit curious as to where that originated… š Earlier that morning,…
Ready For Vacation
Tomorrow we head off for a week of family vacation. We have not done that as a family of six. We have with five, when Kirstie was a tiny baby, but not as a unit of six. We’re looking forward to it. Today I realized that I am really looking forward to it. It’s just…
Tuesday Tidbits
NFL DraftThis past weekend was the NFL draft, as I mentioned here previously. This year, the crazy part was the Bills drafted pretty much as they were expected to! How crazy is that? Last year everyone was flipping out over the insane picks the Bills made… this year, everyone is much happier. (Last year, all…