Susan's Pendulum

Stolen from Katie's photo album: The asparagus forest-- Peek-a-boo from the cupboards-- Playing with Daddy-- Making cornbread for supper...

The Third Commandment enjoins us to "Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy." I don't know about you, but I'd always ...

From July -- and August --

This is their selling point? HT: Jamie

Probably the most basic rule of sound financial management is not to spend more than you have. A corollary of this would be not to put char...

... grapes and watermelons had seeds. (It sure ain't easy to find seeded watermelons anymore. And seeded grapes show up at the store j...

Why does no one care that I know that the sine of 60 degrees is half the square root of 3? You'd think it was irrelevant knowledge or s...

... people introduced themselves when they phoned. When I hear "Hello" on the other end of the phone, I still say, "Hello, t...

Ice sculpture and lots of champagne to celebrate the company's anniversary. Helen is the woman in the center of the first picture; she i...

As we studied Habakkuk last week, we came across the passage in chapter 1 about being held guilty when "your strength is your god"...

Grand opening is scheduled for first week of November. "Soft open" is tentatively scheduled for my son's 21st birthday. He w...

from chapel yesterday The story of the coup runs from 2 Samuel 15-18. King David's son slowly won the hearts of the people away from hi...

We attended the Cardinals game on Tuesday night. Our seats were near a church-group of really nice folks. One of the guys from the church ...

I don't know if Alia finally just got old enough to start talking, or if being with Lydia several times recently gave her the incentive...

Sorry, no tips here. Just extolling one big benefit. My older kids all had younger siblings around during their homeschooling days. There ...

Our Bible story today was about the boy Jesus in the temple. When Mary and Joseph found him after three days of searching and worrying, the...

Three times in this story the Bible runs down the list of "satraps, administrators, governors, counselors, treasurers, judges, magistr...

Alia thinks the hatch to the septic tank makes a great little table to play on! And the electrical box that operates the alarm is her littl...

One toddler playing the recorder. Loudly. Squeal squeeeall SQUEALLLLLL squeal. Two teenagers watching tv together. Dialogue constantly be...

A couple of weeks ago there was a re-enactment weekend not far away. It was at the height of the mosquito infestation, but the township mus...