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Posts from ‘August, 2009’

The Un-Starbucks

To conclude Date Night Saturday night, Jenny and I dropped by our favorite local coffee house, Buon Giorno in Grapevine. Jenny has breakfast there with her girls on some Tuesday mornings, which is how we first discovered it. Why do we like it so much? First of all, good coffee and tea. They roast their [...]

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10 Things We Never Dreamed We’d Say…

…before we had a baby: Please don’t fart on me. Don’t step on Daddy’s crotch. Don’t put your pacifier on your penis. Stab it! Stab it! YAY!!! I just don’t want to go out on Date Night covered in boogers. Why are you holding on to the cat’s leg? No, that bone is not for [...]

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Brenden’s Kryptonite

Our son has no fear. Thunderstorms? Annoying only because they keep him from sleeping. Strangers? Never met one, especially if they are female. He loves the ladies. Dogs? Fluffy friends known as “ba-bas” that are fun to watch and point at. Heights? No problem. If he can find a way to pull himself to a [...]

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Writing to the Far Side of the World

One of my favorite charities is WorldVision, a Christian organization that provides food, medical care, shelter, schooling, and other services to poor children around the world. In all the time I’ve sponsored children through WorldVision, I have never written to any of them. Good intentions never produced an actual letter, even though our sponsored children [...]

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When Girls are Guys, Sorta

Last week at the world track and field championships, an 18-year-old South African woman named Caster Semenya won the 800m title. Unless you follow women’s track closely, you’ve probably never heard of her. But now she’s in the center of a bizarre controversy – not over steroids, training methods, or false starts, but over her [...]

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Brenden Sweeps and Mops

We figured out a way for Brenden to earn his keep around here: housework! We need to polish up his technique a bit, but he gets an A for effort and multitasking.

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