**Due to the sensitive nature of this post, names have been changes in order to protect the guilty** We are fortunate to have central air conditioning in our home despite the fact that the unit which came with our house when we purchased it is just a little too small to cool properly on the...
Monthly Archives: July 2008
While on vacation, we did, indeed, have opportunity to wet our lines in a few lakes. The experience gave me insight on why my grandfather habitually lied in order to preserve the sanctity of his fishing hole. Each time a child caught a fish, no matter the size, all the other children immediately beat a path to the exact...
Last night my family participated in the Relay for Life with team “News Crew for a Cure”. Relay For Life is the American Cancer Society’s signature activity. It offers everyone in a community an opportunity to participate in the fight against cancer. Teams of people camp out at a local high school, park, or fairground...
Darren and I took the kids camping in Grand Marais, Minnesota. It’s an annual tradition and something our whole family looks forward to all year. Well, not the whole family. This year we brought Bingley the Nervous Wreck with us.Bingley has never before ridden in a car and yet we decided to take a 520...
I’m 37 years old and yet to be trusted with the names of lakes where the men in my family catch fish. I come from a long line of Lake Liars. Back when my Grandma and Grandpa used to take us grand kids with them on vacation to the north shore of Minnesota, we’d often go fishing on remote lakes near the BWCA. Being...
Okay. I’m just going to say it. We forgot one of our kids at the county fair. But it was only for twenty minutes and we found him paging through a little New Testament Bible that he got from the Gideon stand in one of the buildings so clearly God was watching out for him despite our brain fart. You see, Isaiah had just won first place in the Tractor Pedal Pull and we were all celebrating his...
I won’t lie. For a second I thought Jesus was coming back and my first thought was “I hope He likes Folgers.”
The phrase “eat like a bird” is defined as “eat very little”. It is often used when speaking about someone who needs very little food to get by, often used when criticizing someone for not eating enough. Having fed birds, I can unequivocally say that this is a complete misnomer. Birds are pigs. We have two bird feeders which are...
Isaiah is spending the night at my parent’s home which means that for the last eight hours I have not once gasped in sheer terror at a daredevil stunt nor have I had to remind anyone that standing on your head while eating dinner is inappropriate behavior. In fact, I sent mom an email asking if Isaiah was being good...
I’m on my third Monster energy drink today and I still feel like a scatter-brained, ADHD patient whose been handed a dozen more irons to add to my already full fire. Only my attempt to medicate myself with Monster Chai has backfired into a good case of the caffeine jitters. This is not good. I get stuck in this...
This shy, quiet farm kid, is Kevin’s best friend- Tyler. When I say ”farm” I mean a real, working dairy farm. And by “kid”, I mean a 16 year old who does more work in one day than most full grown men do in a week. I love Tyler and wish I could keep him, change his last name to Johnson and let him sleep in til...