In one of my most surprising Christmas gifts Aaron got me Jesus Pencil Toppers. The idea was funny and Jake Malone said it was appropriate to have a Jesus eraser since He erases our sin! (Of course over time it would become troubling as Jesus is slowly erased away-they are not actually erasers, so don’t […]

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On a recent hotel stay we discovered the water sprinkler was supported from the ceiling with scotch tape. I suppose this reveals the type of hotels in which we sleep, but it also brought up two questions. First, I wondered who came up with the idea to tape the sprinkler back in place and how […]

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While we were in KC it snowed three times. The first time it began while we were in the movie theater and we walked out to sleeting flakes. Across the packed parking lot we moved slowly against the wind and were happy to find car… and unhappy to realize the lights were left on and […]

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   For Ivy life is joy and in everything there is excitement. The box is just as wonderful as the toy-if it comes with peanuts the box is better! So as we slowly counted out the change from the mop bucket-I was irritated that banks would not count it for us-Ivy ran around the room […]

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It is strange to look at Roger Clemens, the once great pitcher, and see a steroid user. For a long time Barry Bonds was the face of steroids, but I could handle that because he is a jerk in every interview I have read. But Roger was always the nice guy-a role model… of course […]

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