I began writing about or lives on the internet back in 2002. After our first computer crashed, we were unable to replace it and I lost my very first website called “Best Day of My Life”. Recently I discovered the website called “Wayback Machine” which is collecting and archiving information dating back as far as...
Monthly Archives: November 2008
Since I began working for the Post Review newspaper six months ago, I have had many opportunities to meet amazing people in my community. But none more so than the Eiden family who despite having eight children of their own, decided to adopt five more children from Liberia, Africa, simply because they felt the Lord...
Hi! This is Jennine’s daughter Kait. I’m filling in for my mom as a guest blogger. As you know, we have a lot of kids in the house, all of whom are constantly trying to get my mom’s attention. I am a big fan of the cartoon show Family Guy, and today i ran across...
Our elementary school-aged kids have an after school event today, a party of sorts, to celebrate their fundraising efforts from earlier in the school year. This has caused quite the stir in our home with behind-the-scenes plans being made after lights-out in the wee hours of 9:30 p.m. Yesterday I overheard Elly and Nathanael discuss...
I love how my kid writes an article for his teacher about how we let him play XBox for three hours in a row. But seriously, how else is he going to get good at it? Next he plans to write about how he went to bed once without brushing his teeth or the time...
Keeping score in your life from Jennine Johnson on Vimeo
Sipadan from Darek Sepiolo on Vimeo The kids have been on break from school for the last few days because of parent/teacher conferences. I had plans to have a little fun with them but wouldn’t you know, the stomach flu has decided to sweep through our home. It’s been rather exhausting and I just needed...
During the 17 weeks that I was on bedrest while pregnant with Daniel, I had plenty of opportunity to read parenting books. One of the popular trends on the parenting scene was called “Attachment Parenting”. The term, “attachment parenting”, was conceived by pediatrician William Sears and his wife Martha, to describe a highly responsive, attentive...
Miss Elly turned 10 years old yesterday which is a relief to me. We have been listening to her countdown to the special day for the last 364 days. If you thought the political commercials were bad, try hearing a “It’s my birthday in only ___ days”, along with a list of her most coveted...
Tonight was our football team’s awards banquet and Darren and I couldn’t be more proud of Kevin, who also made the A honor roll this quarter. Receiving a plaque for being the team’s “Pit Bull”: $0 Being voted All Conference by the conference coaches: $0 Being made next year’s co-captain of the team: $0 Receiving...
Pulling off the perfect Christmas requires an understanding of the nuances of giblet gravy, the ability to manipulate unwieldy pieces of wrapping paper around ungodly angles and most importantly, the talent to convince an eight year old that all he wants for Christmas is his two front teeth. The truth is that children will NOT...
While the Governor of Minnesota, Tim Pawlenty, came up short on this season’s deer opener, my 14 year old son, Daniel, managed to shot a 7-point, 150-pound buck in a field near our home. The thing that cracks me up is that Daniel had fallen asleep in his stand and woke up to this buck...
My friend, Chubbs, has written an excellent post regardling the mysteries of the men’s public bathroom. I highly recommend you read this post.
Last night I heard Bill Maher say something to the effect of “I don’t want to hear Republicans complain if Obama gets a moon roof in the presidential limo. He’s just trying to air the stink of stupidity out of the upholstery.” This is coming from a man who believes there is no God and...
*No children were harmed in the making of this video. And now we all understand Elly’s frustration with having five brothers. On the other hand, it does afford her the opportunity to audition for an orange juice commercial on youtube.
1. “I can’t wait to go shoe shopping!” 2. “I’ve had enough coffee for one day.” 3. “I’m completely caught up on laundry.” 4. “My home is too clean.” 5. “I am in the mood to shop for groceries.” 6. “Maybe we should cut down on expenses by getting rid of the internet connection.” 7....
Darren’s work email has a spam filter unlike any filter I’ve ever experienced. I’m envious since I’m always receiving spam about enlarging certain body parts whereas those kind of messages automatically end up in Darren’s quarantined file. Knowing how sensitive his email can be, I decided to proposition him very carefully. “Darren, if you leave...
My 20 year old daughter, Kait, was describing a nightmare she recently had about the world coming to an end. In her dream animals were attacking humans, giant comets were falling from the sky and chaos spread over the planet. She went on and on with the horror of it all. Kait was visibly upset...
Yes… change is coming, indeed. Castro Jumps on the Obama bandwagon and unless you are Sean Penn, if that doesn’t send shivers up your spine, I don’t know what will. In the spirit of fairness and equality, I owe it to the Left Wing Nuts Democrats to show their new president-elect the exact same kind...
Let us not forget that it is exactly this mentality that got us to this point. Now I’m going to go gather my thoughts, calm down and prepare for my “I told you so” speech.
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