November 2006
The first part of the upper left incisor poked through yesterday, with much fussing, drool (can you say fountain?), and even a little blood.  Note to Mommy: even if you know he's teething, check the diaper anyway.
posted by Heather Daley on November 30, 2006, 9:54 PM | Comments
Category Noah
Just because we were too busy to post does not mean we did not think about Isaac this Thanksgiving.  Tuesday the 21st was his 4th birthday.  At women's Bible study we sang a song about the people of God, the Church, Christ's body - and one phrase reminded me of the support in grief that they were to us in those days and following.  Thanksgining Day itself this year was the anniversary of Isaac's death.  We got a sweet email from Grammy in which she gave thanks for all three of her grandsons.  Other relatives and friends also remembered with us.  I, too, am thankful for my three boys, for the growth in my spirit from the trial of Isaac's death, and for the heightened appreciation, and thus enjoyment, of the lives I am blessed to spend mine with on this earth.

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posted by Heather Daley on November 29, 2006, 5:16 PM | Comments
Category Isaac
Noah loves to laugh at himself in the mirror.

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posted by Heather Daley on November 29, 2006, 9:31 AM | Comments
Category Noah
I have accumulated some random stuff about Jonathan for quite a while.  Here thay are finally written down.

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posted by Heather Daley on November 29, 2006, 9:08 AM | Comments
Category Jonathan
Mike Hall, a guy who works at Microsoft, occasionally has nifty things on his blog.  This one is no exception.  I will have to try it out and see how it feels.

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posted by Jon Daley on November 28, 2006, 8:57 AM | Comments
Category Reviews

There is a lot of traffic, probably an accident ahead, so we decided to stop for a while, so it probably won't all that much difference.

We borrowed a cell phone and bluetooth adapter from work, so I have internet here.  I was hoping to find a traffic advisory to tell us how far away the accident is, but haven't found anything yet.  The traffic continues to trickle by, so I guess we should get going again.

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posted by Jon Daley on November 26, 2006, 3:22 PM | Comments
Category General
Jonathan woke up late on his birthday morning and discovered a bouquet of Happy Birthday balloons tied to the foot of his bed. He had a good long drink of mommy milk and then discovered his birthday crown on the sewing table which he put on after dressing in his "wedding clothes."

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posted by Heather Daley on November 18, 2006, 11:15 PM | Comments
Category Jonathan

I found this article at Ed Bott's blog, where it shows some screenshots from a spam control client-server piece of software.  It looks pretty neat -- if you're into that sort of thing.

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posted by Jon Daley on November 17, 2006, 9:00 AM | Comments
Category Internet Reviews

I was at a small conference last weekend, which I suppose deserves another post entirely, but in summary, God used that conference to stir up and provoke me to love and seek him more.

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posted by Jon Daley on November 14, 2006, 6:16 AM | Comments
Category Bible
On these two days, Mr. Alcorn has strayed away from at least what I know as traditional views of Heaven, though granted, I am not a particularly studied scholar on the matter.  I haven't ever heard of an intermediate Heaven, which is different from the future Heaven.  His definition of Heaven, at least for these two chapters is, "The place where God dwells", and he speaks particularly of a "central" dwelling place, given that God is omnipresent.

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posted by Jon Daley on November 14, 2006, 6:01 AM | Comments
Category Reviews
I sort of got discouraged on days 2 and 3, where I didn't find much that was edifying. But day 4 had a couple interesting things.

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posted by Jon Daley on November 14, 2006, 5:15 AM | Comments
Category Reviews
I put Noah down on his stomach while I swept the kitchen floor.  I heard a little surprised squeak and when I looked over, there he was on his back!  He even managed to hold onto his stuffed Eeyore as he went.

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posted by Heather Daley on November 13, 2006, 8:17 PM | Comments
Category Noah
I haven't managed to get home yet tonight - started at a link from Worship Matters, Bob Kauflin's blog, and managed to meander around to a number of blogs, which after I get through the list, will probably add to the list of blogs that I read, but wanted to post a link to this one in particular.  I suppose the "right way", if I were a true blogger, would be to put my favorites in a post or something, like so many else do.

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posted by Jon Daley on November 13, 2006, 8:14 PM | Comments
Category Reviews
Jonathan borrowed a playdough pliers from the Kuhns and discovered that it makes nice little barrels.  Since his dough is now all colors mixed up, it is brown.  Lisa thought they looked like Tootsie Rolls.  A few days later when he was telling another friend about the things he borrowed, he said, "You know, the thing that makes sushi rolls."  That's Aunt Janet's nephew to know what sushi rolls are and not Tootsie Rolls

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posted by Heather Daley on November 13, 2006, 7:47 PM | Comments
Category Jonathan

I guess I will need to read the book - I have not liked a fair amount of what John Piper has to say (which is unfortunate, since my church loves everything he says). But I happened across Slice of Laodicea and read the following quote today, which is exactly how I have been thinking recently:

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posted by Jon Daley on November 13, 2006, 6:02 PM | Comments
Category Reviews

I have a couple cds of Keith Green, but hadn't ever actually seen him.  I happened across For Such A Time As This and watched this video of Asleep In The Light:

posted by Jon Daley on November 13, 2006, 5:51 PM | Comments
Category Reviews
Who would have guessed that back when I started writing back in November of 2002 that I was starting what would eventually become a blog, and fairly regular posts?  Certainly not me.

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posted by Jon Daley on November 6, 2006, 7:35 PM | Comments
Category Reviews
Somehow the appliance spies informed our dryer that we were at Sears looking at a new dryer.  Heather wanted to get a new one, since this one doesn't have a low heat setting - but the dryer has worked fine for years. The next time we used our dryer, it refused to start a couple times, and then grudgingly gave in, but made more noise than it used to.  Jonathan and I took it apart on Saturday, cleaned out old gunk, oiled the bearings, put it back together, and it still sounded the same.  It just stopped working tonight.  I think it overheard the Sears salesperson call today to say that the dryer is ready for pickup.  The Calvettis are loaning us their mini-van on Sunday in order to bring it home.

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posted by Jon Daley on November 6, 2006, 7:30 PM | Comments
Category General
Our church is reading 50 Days of Heaven, by Randy Alcorn.  It is a shortened version of Heaven, specifically written as a devotional book.  It is part of a sermon series entitled, An Eye on Eternity. I thought I would write a couple quotes and thoughts for my care group, in order to encourage them to read.  No promises about 50 days worth, but perhaps as I find interesting things.

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posted by Jon Daley on November 6, 2006, 6:09 AM | Comments
Category Reviews

See what Heather makes me eat...

It might be hard to tell, but can you see the things waving/crawling around?  Dig in... Wink

posted by Jon Daley on November 5, 2006, 3:44 PM | Comments
Category Reviews
Jonathan was rolling out fondant and playing with cookie cutters and talking to himself about them when I heard him say, "cross" correctly!  He also said, "green" correctly so I asked him to say "Grammy" and he did!  They do sound slightly like "caross" or "Gerammy" but they're getting better and better.

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posted by Heather Daley on November 5, 2006, 8:30 AM | Comments
Category Jonathan
Noah is very interested in his new teeth - he sticks his tongue in and out over them a lot and then goes "bbbbb" and makes bubbles.

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posted by Heather Daley on November 5, 2006, 8:22 AM | Comments
Category Noah
It doesn't quite look like him, but you certainly could imagine it being him.  (Maybe even me? -- nah, I'm probably too old or something)

 

posted by Jon Daley on November 4, 2006, 11:07 PM | Comments
Category Internet