Well, for years now, Lauren has been coming home and saying that, “Our house smells like an old house.” Personally, I don’t smell it, but I have a pretty poor sense of smell. A poor sense of smell comes in handy when you teach middle school, but isn’t much use in diagnosing OHS. Now, there […]
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Sundays with Samith
October 4, 2015

Samith brings Brighton into Seward on Sunday evenings to play basketball at Concordia’s youth basketball program (there’s some other name for the program, but, yeah). While Brighton is basketballing it up, Samith has been coming over to our house for what we have affectionately been calling, Sundays with Samith™. We mostly just sit around, eat […]
Keysmart
July 31, 2015

Lauren got me an early birthday present. It came in the mail today. Here’s the before picture: The during picture: And the after picture: I tried putting my keys in a number of different ways and in different combinations. Lauren had a USB drive that fit very well, but I ultimately took it out in […]
Thanks, Uncle Rich!
July 13, 2015

While we were at Lauren’s family reunion in Branson, Uncle Rich showed me an iPhone app that I had on my phone, but had never messed with before. It’s called Health, or something like that, and I don’t know what all it can do, but it does turn your phone into a pedometer (sp?). It […]
A post only a mother could love.
May 27, 2015

Speaking of mothers, it was my mom’s birthday yesterday. It was also my dad’s birthday three days before that, but he doesn’t believe in the internet, and doesn’t want Al Gore to know when his birthday is, so we won’t mention that. Lauren said that I had to write a post, but what she doesn’t know […]
Better Butter… wait, I already used that title.
January 26, 2015

A couple of weeks ago, the ‘lid’ to my ‘new’ butter system slipped out of my hand and chipped. Surprise, surprise. What did I expect from buttery glass? I spent a good long time thinking about how to replace it. At various stores, I looked at containers for holding pencils, toothbrushes, sewing goods, fishing tackle […]
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