Update: Swine Flu

Katherine’s fever finally broke Sunday morning. It took three days, and we had a couple scares of 103+, but she’s feeling better. I think the sign that she was truly feeling well again was when we realized that her talking had increased from about 1 word a minute up to 150 with gusts approaching 300.
She’s [...]

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Swine Flu

It’s not quite official, but I’m calling it anyway.
Time of Arrival in the Loveless household: roughly 7:45 this morning.
Well, that’s when it first started showing anyway. Katherine came into our room at 6:00 this morning and crawled into bed with me. She likes to sleep in my arms when she’s not feeling well, so that [...]

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Our Poltergeist Balloons

A story appropriate for Halloween I think….
Last weekend, Katherine got a Halloween helium-filled balloon at a Primary activity. On Monday, she got a second balloon, but this one was not filled with helium. As a joke, I tied the two together with the non-helium balloon hanging at the end of a long string. That balloon [...]

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How can I resist?

It is now officially October 27. The snow is on its way and we’re supposed to have upwards of 4 inches by this evening. It’s cold, it’s windy, and I just drank a big glass of hot chocolate.
And all of this begs the question: How can I possibly resist putting up the Christmas Tree?
Courtney and [...]

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The Huns are Coming

I had to capture this little gem before it got lost in memory….
A few days ago I came home to find Katherine in full princess regalia; crown, jewels, dress, slippers… the works. She had a very stern look on her face, and it was obvious that something very important was happening. She had in one [...]

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A parenting breakthrough

Courtney and I have been seeking for ways to be better parents. We’ve both spent a lot of time praying, reading, studying, practicing, talking, and doing countless other things to try and be better. It’s not that we’re bad, but we really feel a strong need to become better, especially for Katherine.
One of the things [...]

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How to make Cheese

Courtney and I are on this huge self-sufficiency kick where we’re learning how to do all sorts of stuff on our own. We already learned how to make our own butter, we currently make our own bread, we’re learning how to make yogurt, and this last weekend I learned how to make cheese.
That’s right, cheese.
The [...]

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An Impromptu Musical

Now that this is much closer, I wanted to share something with you.
Courtney and I have a friend… never mind, that route will be an extremely long story…. Let’s just say that Courtney and I have found ourselves involved with an impromptu musical. Need I explain what an impromptu musical is or are those two [...]

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Showing my age

Now let’s be perfectly clear here: I’m not old. I’m thirty. That is nowhere near old. But I’ve noticed a few things lately that are starting to make me feel like I’m old.
One of them is that my kids are growing older. Myron turned one on the first, and Katherine turns five next month. We [...]

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Teaching a child to eat

More a request for help than an actual idea.
Katherine refuses to eat supper. Most nights it ends with her half-finished plate getting dumped in the trash and her saying she’s hungry 15 minutes later. It’s infuriating, and I have no clue what to try next. The thing that frustrates me the most is that we’ve [...]

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