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This December has been abundantly “profitable” for us. I don’t like that word. I don’t like all of the baggage that goes with it. Any of you who know me, know that I am certainly not in it for “the profit” in any sort of way. But, unfortunately, money is necessary. Well, we actually had…

We received a card in our P.O. Box yesterday (that’s our “basic mail”) that had no return address label. I did see it was post marked Toledo, OH. I was trying to figure out who it was from as I opened it. Inside was a Christmas card, which contained two one-hundered dollar bills! And the…

Wow. You know, I have often mentioned here on this blog how busy we are. We just really, really are. That is about to change. We are restructuring some things in life. Learning from past choices (not bad choices necessarily, just choices…) and deciding to do things a bit differently. On Tuesday morning, we were…

Today is an anniversary. 12/23. Not all that significant… but perhaps it is? We have now had an account with our bank, Canandaigua National Bank & Trust, for 8 years. Since 1996. Yes, that is mostly insignificant, but just thought I’d pass along that little bit of trivia. And, a recommendation of a cool local…

Can you believe that?! McDonald’s food will make you fat!!! Really! I’m serious! 🙂 We watched the movie SuperSize Me with some friends a couple weeks ago, and it was actually pretty funny. The whole idea is that a guy who is in very good physical shape wanted to see if he could prove that…

Just wanted to share a photo of us with Santa at WalMart last Saturday 🙂

We really do have to learn to be bad. There are times when I know that statement above is NOT true… I see the evidence of selfish, sinful, mistrust of their father in all of my kids from nearly their first day of life. But today with a crowd of kids from 1st through 8th…

“Do justly, love mercy, walk humbly with your God…” A line from a Steven Curtis Chapman song (one of my favorite song writers!) Taken from a line in Micah (6:8). And really is at the core of how we are made to live. It is not like God to be boastful or proud. Even though…

When we were packing up at the Christmas show this past weekend, we had another vendor come over to our booth to pay us a compliment specifically and in person. He said, “I just wanted you to know you guys were great.” I said, “Thanks!”, not really expecting anything further. He quickly followed with, “And…

I have been noticing again that we are really good at recognizing sin… in others. We are so good at seeing what is wrong in our neighbor. And in a way, that’s not bad. Wrong is wrong. But the problem is, we see the wrong and say, “I can’t believe they did that!” when the…