Author Archive
“Conservative” book makes it into Boston U. classroom
Thursday, August 14th, 2008I was pretty much shocked to read this article from the Sovereign Grace blog about how Joshua Harris’ “I Kissed Dating Goodbye” has been used in classwork at a liberal school like Boston University to discuss modesty as a virtue. Then again, I have to think that there is a chance that a least [...]
July = vacation time!
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008Most of us have probably at one time arrived home from “vacation” feeling exhausted physically, emotionally, and/or spiritually. This post by C.J. Mahaney (who I had the privilege of hearing at a conference eight years ago) from the Sovereign Grace blog on leadership in family vacations addresses the father’s role in planning vacations that [...]
Wife In The Fast Lane
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008One of my favorite blogs, ReFem, recently featured this post entitled, “Wife In The Fast Lane.” (I wish I could have been the one to come up with such a catchy title for a post, but, nope, can’t take credit for this one. ;)) I originally just forwarded it to a few close [...]
Happy Birthday, Matt!
Saturday, November 17th, 2007In honor of Matt’s birthday today (whee!), Elena and I came up with a “Top Ten things we love about Matt/Daddy” list. It kinda went a little longer than 10, but we figured it was ok :)
Top Ten Things We Love About Matt/Daddy
1. Elena says, “Whenever I bring Daddy one of my favorite books, [...]
Couscous and dirt
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007So tonight I decided to make couscous (a first for me) as a side dish with our grilled Iowa chops for supper. (Mmmm-mmmmm!) (Matt did a splendiferous job of grilling, thank you my dear.) I’ve been on somewhat of a mission to have Elena try as many new foods as possible that [...]
Blog review: Reforming the Feminine
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007Some of you have picked up on Matt’s appreciation lately for Mark Driscoll’s teaching from Mars Hill Church in Seattle. I often end up adopting Matt’s preferences, so I, too, have been enjoying some of Driscoll’s books (Confessions of a Reformission Rev.: Hard Lessons from an Emerging Missional Church and The Radical Reformission: Reaching [...]
Elena says…
Friday, November 17th, 2006“Happy Birthday, Daddy!”
It’s Matt’s 27th birthday today :) Happy Birthday to an amazing husband/daddy-designer/coder- (pardon the slightly corny almost-rhyming) rock-n-roll-er!
Friday night weather
Thursday, September 21st, 2006I was just checking the forecast and I noticed that tomorrow is Friday and it doesn’t look too nice out. Then I realized how many awesome Friday nights in a row we had for having The Rock outside at the terrace! Wow, God! Thanks for blessing us!
And the mama speaks at last
Friday, August 11th, 2006Fyew! What a crazy and amazing 2.5 weeks it has been! Our lovely little lady is doing so well…I thought I would give you an update :) (For the readers who are guys out there, these are probably details that you’re not so interested in, but I have a feeling some of [...]
Mad Hot Ballroom
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006Along the same line as my last post about The Five Browns, (sorry, the teacher side of me got thinking about more of the media that I have really enjoyed lately) has anyone else out there seen Mad Hot Ballroom? Autumn, who is always in the know about the newest indie/documentary films, told me [...]
The Five Browns
Sunday, April 30th, 2006You may have noticed the nifty feature at the bottom of our SWEET new design (I totally dig it…especially the little nuances that Matt will talk about tomorrow) where it shows “His”/”Hers.” When Matt put this at the bottom of the page, I was like, “Dude! I want to talk about this!” [...]
Chillin’ with the Jesus People
Sunday, March 19th, 2006We just (I guess it was a week ago now) returned from a spring break outreach/service trip to Chicago with some of the folks from the Rock. It was a short time, but it was really great in a number of different ways.
I think this is about the sixth spring break outreach/service trip that I’ve [...]
Four Things
Sunday, January 29th, 2006Tagged by Matt’s techno blog:
Four Jobs I’ve Had in My Life:
Typist/copy editor for a auto racing newspaper
Flower delivery girl
County extension program intern
BAND TEACHER
Four Movies I Could Watch Over and Over, and Have:
Father of the Bride
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Dude, I have a cool husband
Monday, January 9th, 2006Not that I just realized it (that I have a cool husband) or anything, but I just have to brag about my man for a moment. :)
Last night I thought I was going to a “normal” team dinner with some Rocker friends and when I got there someone put a “Birthday Princess” [...]
Go AM radio
Wednesday, October 26th, 2005Awesome discovery this morning while en route from Des Moines…AM 1190 radio…a great swing station! It’s not all “up tight”, super-fast swing…I just thought it was great. Anyhoo, check it out. Any other sweet AM stations that I should be aware of?
Attack of the Killer Q-tips
Tuesday, October 11th, 2005If you haven’t been able to tell by now, Matt and I get a huge kick out of our cat. He is a great source of entertainment for us…and the other night he didn’t let us down. He seems to thoroughly enjoy playing with Q-tips…it seems they are the greatest threat to our [...]
Ode to my CrockPot
Wednesday, September 28th, 2005Well, in a completely different vein than my previous two entries, I thought I would share about the “tragedy” that happened the other night in my kitchen. dramatic pause I discovered a large crack in my Crock Pot.
It seems my CrockPot and I really bonded this last year…I found out that [...]
Need to brush up on your music theory?
Tuesday, September 20th, 2005While hunting for some stuff for my piano students, I came across Ricci Adams’ www.musictheory.net. It’s FREE, and is pretty user-friendly for being FREE. It has some great opportunities for young students to practice naming notes, as well as some trickier stuff like hearing intervals for you pros. How are you all [...]
Katrina video link
Monday, September 19th, 2005Wow…I’ve been checking the Samaritan’s Purse website frequently to see if they might post something about Ernestina and Jose (because I saw their camera crews with them) and it’s up there! If you watch the video on front of that page, you will see some scenes from a shelter…those are all taken in the [...]
My take on Louisiana…
Monday, September 19th, 2005Well, I’ve been kind of putting off actually putting down on “paper” what God let me see/experience/learn during our time in Shreveport, but I’m convinced that He might want someone else to hear about what I saw/experienced/learned so I’ll do it :)
Thursday We arrived in Shreveport about 11am on Thursday, September 8. We got the [...]
