Monthly Archive: February 2010

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Gold Medals, Beer, Champagne, Cigars, Condoms

Somehow, the following doesn’t meet my image of an Olympic Athlete: Drinking beer, champagne, and smoking cigars celebrating a win in plain view. I don’t know what was the message here… Canada’s top Olympic official sees no reason to put a damper on the women’s hockey team’s beer-swigging, cigar-smoking celebration...

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Fun Factory

I had to make a run to CVS, and Miranda decided she did too. Silas started to get excited that he was going bye byes in Nana’s car, and his enthusiasm just made me want to get our very active toddler something that would keep him busy. While getting the...

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Silas Idol

So as our usual, Laura and I are tuned into American Idol. Last night, Silas decided to steal the show. So Laura, ever quick with her cell phone’s video capabilities, recorded Silas. Now Silas has been watching a lot of The Three Tenors of late, and might explain some of...

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Silas Loves

With a little help from Laura, Silas names some of the people he loves…

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Cabin Fever

After days and days of  so many feet of snow outside, and little melting, you have to just get out anyway. Saturday was one of those days, and we decided to take Silas to the park. There had been a few warmish days, however it was a tad disheartening to...

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Web cam Fun with Silas

Silas sat on my lap today we and had loads of fun in front of the web cam. It was definitely giggles and good times!

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Authentic Love

This Valentines Day, this very proud mama got to hear her son preach tonight. Being Valentines Day, Enric chose Authentic Love as his topic for teaching. Enric teaches how our culture gives a view of love that is different from the Bible’s view. He also gives a very personal and...

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Baltimore Auto Show 2010

A few times in the past I have given to Miquel as his Valentine’s present,  a visit to the auto show in Baltimore’s Convention Center. In the years past, it has been overwhelmingly amazing and it was almost too much show to see in one visit. This year, I was...

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Valentines

Happy Valentines Day – “And this commandment have we from him. That he who loveth God love his brother also.” 1 John 4:21

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Great Danger to be Feared

“I place the economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the great danger to be feared. To preserve your independence, we must not let our leaders load us with perpetual debt. We mus t make our choice between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude.”...

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Snowiest Winter

The climate report from the National Weather Service was just posted and the word out of BWI-Marshall airport is that 4″ of snow fell on February 9th, pushing the winter total snowfall to 64.4″, which makes the winter of 2009-’10 the snowiest winter on record for Baltimore.  The old record...

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Silas Relaxes

With the cleaning of the cars done… And the snow and the cold not going anywhere… Silas shows us all how to relax indoors, while he and Miquel check out Laura’s new book, “Dear John”

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Blizzard 2010

Well in the midst of blizzard conditions here in Maryland, we are looking to break records for snow. Some images so far:

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A Poem for Margie

COME WITH ME The Lord saw you getting tired And a cure was not to be, So He put his arms aroud you And whispered, “Come with me.” With tearful eyes, we watched you suffer And saw you fade away, Although we loved you dearly, We could not make you...

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Zilch

When Petra lived with us, she taught me the most fun dice game. We would have so much fun, it’s hard to believe that 6 dice and a paper keeping score could be so entertaining. Today online, through Good Experience, I found a very close relative to the dice game...

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Old Photos: Kilgore Falls

Kilgore Falls a favorite spot in Maryland for my family and I. The Falling Branch area of Rocks State Park is located about five miles north of the main park on a separate 67-acre parcel of land. It is home to the 17-foot high Kilgore Falls, which is Maryland’s second-highest...