The Jeubs made a really tough decision earlier this week. We were all settled on packing up all 15 of us heading to San Diego for the Stoa NITOC tournament, rolling the honor in with a vacation. Typical homeschool thing. We’ve been extremely busy trying to pull all the details together. Then sickness hit us.…
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May
22
2010
Where Are All the Kids?
May
12
2010
GOP Idea Man
My childhood friend from 8th grade is at it again. He made it on the cover of my favorite current events magazine, World. I absolutely love the opening line. Oh my, what an article. I have it started below and link to the rest… The quiet weapon Meet a man who plans to balance the…
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May
09
2010
Happy Mother's Day, Wendy!
I’ve got several Wendy Pictures in my photos, and this one was taken with my phone at 2:00 a.m. the morning after Easter Sunday. Wendy and I rushed to the emergency room with Zechariah who had a bad case of croup. The picture here shows Zech trying to sleep, waiting for the steroids to kick…
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May
04
2010
Book Releases Later 2010
Things were rolling quickly earlier this year–many key things coming together for a May 9 release of our new book Love Another Child–but we’ve decided to put the project on hold till this fall. It was a complicated and difficult to decision, so allow me to explain. We’ve got the book completed and proofed. We…
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May
03
2010
Family moments
I’m an avid quotation collector. I collect quotations from the books, blogs, newspapers, movies, podcasts, TV shows, and even twitter and Facebook. After being inspired by a friend who posted a list of funny and interesting quotations from her own family, I decided to start collecting from everyday conversations, too. Here are a couple of…
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May
01
2010
Epic
I don’t know if it’s because the 80′s are coming back, but my generation likes to use the word epic just as much as my parents did. We say it when someone is keeping his or her cool while doing something we find amazing. The dictionary defines epic the noun as “a long poem, typically…
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May
01
2010
On Youth and Wisdom
“He’s old enough to decide what’s right but young enough not to choose it.” –Neil Peart Every time I hear this quote, I sigh at the fact that it’s true. Not just true of young people in general, but true of me in particular. So often I know what is the right thing to do,…
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