The Wamplers have had a baby girl!! Yay!!

Congratulations!

Hmm... Thai Chicken ( Read more... )

I'm going to try a new recipe this week - Thai chicken. The secret ingrediant? Peanut butter. I'll let you know how it goes.

Weddings and Funeral all successfully attended. I'm pooped.

Grandparents are awesome.

When Luke has a bad night (up crying from 12:30 - 2:00, and up again at 5:15), I'm so much more greatful for his regular sleeping. I think it was the 1/2 hour of sleep he got ALL day that did it.

I need to clean some house. I'm not sure if that will happen today.

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I'm not doing very well at this journal thing. I suppose I'm a little too self concious. I'm too worried about being clever, that I don't end up writing anything. For example... I just rewrote that sentence about 3 times. Ha!  That's why it always took me so long to write papers in college. Revising? Oh, you're supposed to do that after you're ( Read more... )

Hannah is here! Yay!

Way to go
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Ben and I were talking yesterday, and realized that he's been winning a lot of stuff recently. Random stuff.

Lets see...
A volleyball tournament (his first time winning the whole level)
A drawing from work (Starbucks for a year!)
A fishing tournament (he caught the biggest... well at least he reeled it in)

That doesn't seem like so much when I write it ( Read more... )

Yesterday we went to a wedding at Saints Peter and Paul Antiochian Orthodox Church. I've never been to a wedding like that before. One of the most unique things was that everything except for the homily was sung. All the scripture readings, all the blessings, and all the admonitions to the couple. There were music staffs in the bulliten when the ( Read more... )

I heard an interesting comment on the radio yesterday. I can't remember it word for word but it was something like this:

Parents shouldn't try to control their children. Parents should control circumstances and consequences. Then their child will learn how to control himself.

Interesting. I think I agree. Comments?

I'm learning that peace does not come from doing everything right. For one thing - I probably won't do everything right. For another - even if I do everything right, there are many things I don't have control over (for example: an infant's behavior) that can tend to ruin my peace ( Read more... )