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• Old Things, Personal Growth, The Deep, The Kids

  Real Family History

  11.04.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’ve been working on tracking down some of my ancestors lately, and there’s one thing that really, really sticks out to me — for most people the sense of who we are and what we’ve accomplished doesn’t stick around very long after we’re gone.
  I look at the names of my grandparents, great-grandparents, and so […]

• Fun!, The Kids, Travel

  The Famous Maurice Fire Escape Slide

  05.17.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  We spent Mother’s Day in the thriving metropolis that is Maurice, IA. And a day in Maurice (pronounced “mawr-is”, as in “morris”) isn’t worth much if you don’t visit the park and take a ride down The Famous Maurice Fire Escape Slide.

  The Famous Fire Escape Slide can’t be terribly famous; a Google search comes up […]

• Home Life, The Kids

  Pippin!

  04.24.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Meet the newest addition to the Thornton family; Pippin the Canary.

  Yvonne had mentioned before that she’d like to have a pet finch or two, so for her birthday I bought her a bird cage & told her that she could pick out the bird. I suggested a canary (definitely my preference, but it was her […]

• The Kids

  Buck Buck!

  04.08.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  One of the kids’ favorite things to listen to is an old Bill Cosby comedy album that I’ve had forever. One of the things Cosby talks about is playing a game called BuckBuck. In BuckBuck, five kids will line up, each one bent over the back of the kid in front, so that you end […]

• The Kids

  Is it Caleb? Or Calvin?

  03.16.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Caleb pulled a couple of good ones this evening. After dinner he was reading a book when he stopped & asked, “What does ‘e-i-e-i-o’ spell?” I almost fell off my chair.
  Then, later on he took a bath, which he does on his own with little trouble. Mostly. This time he filled the tub to the […]

• The Kids

  Bear Feet

  09.15.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  I was reminded tonight of a “Caleb-ism” from a while back. Caleb went running out the door in cold weather with no shoes on, and I shouted at him, “Hey! You don’t want to go out there in bare feet!”
  He stopped & looked at me with that “What the hey are you talking about” look, […]

• The Kids

  Emily

  09.04.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  One of Emily’s graduation photos, taken by Chari Clark in our back yard. Chari does a nice job, probably better than a lot of professionals, but it’s hard to get a bad photo of Emily.
  I cannot believe she’s a senior this year. Maybe that’s where all my gray hair came from.

• The Kids

  Caleb 7-2k

  09.04.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  Here’s a photo of Caleb that was taken back in July, 2000. He was just a toddler then, climbing all over everything. In this photo he’s about 5 feet off the ground on the monkey bars in the back yard. No fear at all. I wonder what happened to that, cuz now he gets nervous […]

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