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Category Archives: Typical Days

March 2016 | Hand Talking, Spring, Sickness & Chuck E. Cheese’s

Look at you. Look at your sweet face. My Jo. You are something else. You’d think a three-year-old looking at a picture book full of animals would want to comment on what they’re called, what color they are, or what sounds they make. But you’re most interested in how they’re feeling and their good or […]

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February 2016 | Toy Trucks, the Date Festival & the Bronco

The truck thing is built in to boys. Had I ever any doubt, no longer. There are trucks out all the time. Everywhere. These days you pick one usually to carry around all day. It’s like a ritual for you, Josiah. Somedays it’s “Wee-ooo” (your fire engine), some days it’s “Tow” (your tow truck), sometimes […]

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January 2016 | Reading, Tar Pit, & Toy Shop

You two started out the year with a trip to the dentist, Josiah’s first, and we survived. I never know what to expect walking into new situations like this with him, but I also don’t worry very much about it either. I think you’ve broken me of embarrassment in most situations, son. I pretty much […]

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December 2015 | Happy New Year!

Coming up on 8 years sober and this is what fun looks like. There was a time I honestly couldn’t have imagined having a good time without alcohol. I was deceived and enslaved. But when the kindness and love of my Savior appeared, he saved me, not because of righteous things I had done, but […]

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