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Baby

Posted: Saturday, June 8th, 2013 @ 1:42 pm in Foofy, General, Parenthood, Pregnancy, Projects | Comments Off

A boy, born Tuesday afternoon, 9 pounds 13 ounces, 21 inches long, lots of dark hair.

Low-cost solutions

Posted: Monday, May 20th, 2013 @ 1:56 pm in Foofy, General, Parenthood, Pregnancy, Projects, The Naturally Frugal Baby | Comments Off

Our landlords have just one garden hose for the house, and it is certainly long enough to reach everywhere. But we have struggled a lot to manage the Hundred-Foot Hose: it twists and kinks and tangles like crazy, and there is nothing in the far reaches of the lot that we need to [...]

Nesting

Posted: Friday, April 26th, 2013 @ 1:24 pm in Foofy, General, Parenthood, Pregnancy, Projects | Comments Off

I finally got hold of a copy of Hidden Art, by Edith Schaeffer, which I’ve been wanting to read for a long time. (She recently died.)
I guessed that she would focus on everyday art, as opposed to the High Art that her husband Francis Schaeffer focused on in How Shall We Then Live? [...]

So I have a garret now…

Posted: Thursday, April 25th, 2013 @ 7:45 am in Foofy, General, Parenthood, Projects | Comments Off

…at one end of the bedroom closet. I was going to make a small table, and move my computer back into the bedroom, but God’s sovereign will, as expressed in the available materials, led me to put it in the closet. I contrived a homemade magnetic lock for the door–a metal pin that [...]

Sprung spring

Posted: Thursday, April 4th, 2013 @ 5:25 am in Foofy, General, Parenthood, Projects | Comments Off

We went from winter to spring in only one week. Almost all of the snow is melted now.
StrongBaby decided to start being two a little early. He has been making huge strides in language and in having opinions of his own.
I’ve been playing with the free Linux beta version of Scrivener. Installing [...]

Review of Managing God’s Money

Posted: Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013 @ 12:03 pm in Christianity, General, Parenthood, The Serendipitous Sabbatical | Comments Off

A while back, I read Managing God’s Money, by Randy Alcorn. It came at a good time, when I was questioning our finances and how much to keep versus how much to give away.
The book is mostly in a question-and-answer format, and is thoroughly based on the Bible.
Alcorn’s first point is that everything is [...]

Hey, isn’t this easy

Posted: Thursday, March 14th, 2013 @ 1:33 pm in Christianity, Foofy, General, Parenthood, The Serendipitous Sabbatical | Comments Off

Some backstory, to start with:
1. I wrote The Serendipitous Sabbatical last year, and one of the things that I was trying to work out then was when MFH could ever-maybe-possibly take a break from working; he’d been at his job for seven stressful years. But then I got pregnant again, so [...]

Slamming the door

Posted: Tuesday, March 12th, 2013 @ 9:12 am in General, Parenthood, Pregnancy, The Naturally Frugal Baby | Comments Off

I’d heard about this from our midwife before, but Rixa has a post about a nearby hospital, in Hudson across the Wisconsin border, no longer allowing vaginal breech births. It was formerly the go-to place for these, especially for homebirth transfers, because none of the other hospitals* in the Twin Cities area allow them–they [...]

Crafting away

Posted: Wednesday, February 20th, 2013 @ 4:48 pm in Foofy, General, Parenthood, Projects | Comments Off

Last week I was bemoaning my lack of craft supplies (all given away or used up) when that little inner voice told me to go look in a certain drawer, and there was a big piece of sheet left over from the couch pillows, and it was just the right size to make an overcurtain [...]

A week

Posted: Thursday, February 14th, 2013 @ 1:33 pm in Foofy, General, Parenthood, Politics | Comments Off

A very tiring week, already. Long days, and the furnace was out for a day (luckily a warmer day), and today there was wet, heavy snow to shovel.
On Sunday I noticed that I really need more photons in my life. It was a snowy and gray day. We went to church early, [...]