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the call
A little over a year ago, I heard murmuring about a guy named Greg Brannon who was going to run for U.S. Senate in North Carolina. A bunch of the Liberty activists I knew were pretty excited about him....
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We’ve just been hanging out in a Knoxville hotel room since the 12:30 transfer this afternoon. We have some pictures but no way to get them on the iPad. We’ll update when we get home tomorrow. 2...
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Percysaurus turns 2
Percy turned two June 8. Planning a little dinosaur party was a fun distraction from the miscarriage, so I might have gone a little overboard for a two-year-old’s party. My mom was visiting for the...
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puzzled
Percy likes putting together floor puzzles of the alphabet. Valor likes puzzles with geographical themes. I like the kind of wordplay puzzles that reveal a pregnancy, or reveal a name of a child. Some...
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growing up?
Well, today I turn 40 years old. Which means when I want to look studious (or I have to read some small text), I slip these bad boys on: Speaking of small text (and bad boys?), I decided that this...
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everything is awesome
Just about a month ago, I posted my largest double crostic to date. Though a number of you did solve it, I’m sure quite a few of you sat it out. I just realized I never posted the answer. Well, now I...
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Abby’s hCG level on Thursday was 157, indicating at least one successful implantation! Too early to guess if there is more than one, but we’re over the moon! Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good!
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heartbeat
We had yet another beta hCG test with good results (4447 last Wednesday) and the first ultrasound (at 6 1/2 weeks) was scheduled for this afternoon. In a short time we’ve gone from wondering how many...
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full of it
For the past three Novembers, we’ve started with a bulletin board with only the trunk and limbs of a bare tree fashioned out of brown paper, and we’ve ended the month with a craft which depicts the...
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memories of my father
As many of our readers already know, my father, William “Bill” Gjertsen, died in the early morning of March 23. It was not an unexpected death; he had been in gradual decline for the past two years...
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quivering
The subtitle of our blog is “unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain,” the opening line of a psalm which concludes with the verses: Behold, children are a heritage from the...
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Just when your weekend couldn’t get any awesomer
Errata: The puzzle had an error mapping the last letter of clue K to 246 instead of 245. It is corrected below. Also, the answer for clue D uses an accepted spelling, but one that I have recently...
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This is why it’s called an Odyssey
A couple of weeks ago we bid adieu to our blue Prius, the only brand new car I’ve ever bought, now 110,000 miles old, running very smoothly, but lacking the seating capacity for the fostering and/or...
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I got a blank space, baby… and I’ll write your name
A couple months of blog silence, but everything is going just peachy with us and the pregnancy. Percy demonstrated fraternal love for his baby sister (who is still “Christmas Light Man” to him) in a...
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the name mystery revealed
We’re now less than two months away from Maybe’s birthday, and we’re ready for her to start transitioning from her gestational name to her real, birth name. Which means: SPOILER ALERT! If you’re still...
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A vote for reform in a miserable election
North Carolina is a state where, curiously, it is a felony for me to share a photo of what is inside of this envelope. Rather than keep you in suspense, I will share a picture of a sample ballot. My...
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An Epic Odyssey (in the Odyssey)
In November, our family embarked on a six-stop, 16-day road trip across the southeast US. Our kids were great travelers, and it was a blast to introduce God’s gift of our Mystery to some friends and...
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America the Beautiful
When Valor saw me working on this puzzle a few weeks ago, he was confused, because he didn’t think he was expecting a brother or sister. (This is often—but not always—the pattern.) Occasionally I like...
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Summer at the Strongo Asylum
Last fall, as Valor was seven years old, the state of North Carolina required us to register with a “Notice of Intent to Operate a Home School” in order to keep on the good obedient side of the law. It...
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America the Beautiful, Part 2
Fall is here, and with it our Classical Conversations homeschool campus, Trail Life troop, and AWANA Clubs have all started in full swing. I view all three organizations as beneficial for the purposes...
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