Moving Due to Comments

You may have noticed that a spambot has found my blog, and I am regularly deleting 5-10 comments a day that slip through my spam filter. The spam filter (Akismet) is filtering out roughly 500 comments a day from this nasty little program, all of them nonsense strings of words that include something [...]

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The Ultrasound Was Today

And everything went well. The baby looks healthy, with all the functioning parts a baby needs. They couldn’t see both feet because she kept them crossed, and the sonographer wants to do another ultrasound to rule out clubbed feet. That sounds like a waste of time to me - if she did [...]

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The Bible and Polygamy

Given its prominence in the news and the religious background to the FLDS marriage practices, I thought it might be worthwhile to talk about polygamy in the context of the Bible. There is a tendency in our culture to treat the Bible as a collection of aphorisms, a kind of compendium of easy to [...]

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Works-for-Me Wednesday: Brushing the Kids’ Teeth

I haven’t done one of Shannon’s Works-for-me Wednesdays in a while, but the last few nights a new trick has been working for us, and I thought I would share it.
Our two older girls - four and almost three years old - hate getting their teeth brushed. It is a struggle every night. [...]

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I watched Pygmalion for the first time tonight. I have never seen a movie that so clearly mimics what it’s like to wash my two-year-old daughter’s hair.
The bath scene begins about four minutes in.

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