One with the Puppet
It’s about 12:30 a.m. Friday morning. I’ve just given Jessie some cough and cold medicine to hopefully clear her head and relieve her cough. Jacob seems to have gotten over his, but both of the kids spent a great deal of time outside today. They’ve created a slide using the rope on the tree fort …
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Halve 1 container of cherry tomatoes. Chop a bunch of green onions. Marinate the above ingredients in catalina salad dressing. Fry a half-pound of bacon to make bacon bits or use pre-packaged bacon bits. Set the oil for deep frying the okra. Get a 24 oz. bag of breaded okra and fry it up. If …
Jacob performs “O Tannenbaum” in German. Jessie tries to outdo him with “Jingle Bells”. Jacob ripostes with his 78 r.p.m. rendition.
I’ve finally added pictures from August through November in the gallery.
At dinner tonight, Jessie asked whether she was “baporated”. She was learning about it at her preschool (the Lutheran one), where one of the teachers had mentioned getting water poured on your head. Apparently, the LCMS does infant baptism. So, we got to explain that to her, which led to the differences between being dedicated, …
Among the general brouhaha of the elections of November 2, there was the little tidbit that Oklahomans had passed a measure banning Sharia Law from being used in their state. Naturally, this issue has raised quite a few eyebrows at Law Universities, since it seems to directly interfere with the first amendment, but that’s not …
Today, November 2, is Laureen’s 40th birthday. I got her the sexiest gift I could find–a new clothes dryer. Before you clonk me on the head for being “that type of husband,” please understand that our current dryer has a cycle of approximately 4.3 weeks for a load of jeans. There’s heat. There’s lint. There …
Laureen’s 40th birthday is coming up soon, so we’re approaching that question once again of “what are we going to do when we’ve grown up?” Right now, the answer for me is “genealogy”. For whatever reason, a rash of deaths and other related matters have put something on my conscience to try and record what …
I’m starting a new project on this site, one that’s closer to the original idea I had when I chose the site’s name. This may mean a bit less personal opinion blogging, but… If I had to choose one reason why I wanted A Learning Experience as a domain, it would have been, “because I …