You heard it right – I’m shaving my head in solidarity with children who have cancer and typically lose their hair during treatment, while raising critical funds for childhood cancer research! In the US, more children die of childhood cancer than any other disease. Please make a donation on my behalf to support childhood cancer [...]
Christopher seems excited about the new camera.
It’s Flag Football season, and the camera has been busy…no fair showing this to Christopher yet, though. I’ve got a T-Shirt on its way emblazoned with the graphic shown below, and I plan to wear it to his next game without comment. We’ll see how long it takes him to notice.
I don't want to lose this one, so I'm re-blogging. The following originally appeared on Nick Bakay's Superbowl XL Blog at http://www.superbowl.com/features/bakay. Someday, please, take the time to make these wings. They are without a doubt the best wings you've ever had. I made up a batch for the Superbowl, and was kicking myself that [...]
We signed Christopher up for soccer (beginning next Friday), and learned today that his team is the only one in the league without a coach. Guess who’s going to be the head coach? Yep, that would be me. Send all your good coaching vibes my way, I’ll need ‘em…I’ve never done this before!
Emily is enamored of Sudoku puzzles lately, and has gotten me into them as well. I bought a copy of some Sudoku software which has the neat capability of letting you plug in puzzles from books or newspapers to solve. The software will even verify the clues to tell you the difficulty of the puzzle [...]
What are you thankful for? Me? Family. Friends. Faith. (The three “f’s”) The opportunity to go to “play” instead of having to go to “work”. So many, many things. We are truly blessed. Have a great turkey day! Oh, and if by some weird sequence of events you manage to overeat (imagine that!), the word [...]
Attached is a document that has the readings from Sunday, June 12 and the text of the sermon I preached. If you didn't make it, here's another opportunity to hear read what I had to say. Just don't judge it too harshly…it was my first sermon!
You’re cordially invited to Loving Shepherd Lutheran Church on Sunday, June 12. The church elders will be conducting the worship service, with a sermon preached by Eric Longman entitled “Journeys of Faith”. Be there at 9:14am for my bible study class; I’m starting a new series on Great People in the Old Testament.
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