Thanks for coming, everyone. We want to celebrate a little girl turning one this week. Thanks in advance for all your contributions to Edie’s toy kitchen. She loves it already; I’m so excited for when she can actually bring me fake tea, then real tea! I’ve always had the suspicion that some people have kidsContinue reading “Edie’s First Birthday Speech”
Category Archives: Children
Throw Foam Golf Balls at Chipmunks
There’s a park not too far from our house that has a huge hill called Centennial Park (see the view from the hill). One very cool thing about this park is the number of rodents that peek their heads out of their holes as you are walking around. The first time we went there asContinue reading “Throw Foam Golf Balls at Chipmunks”
Pray Small Prayers
I took the kids tent camping recently. We packed up the car with all that we thought we would need, drove 45 minutes to a nearby state park, and attempted to pay the $6 to camp that night. Alas, no campground hosts were available the entire time we were there, so I guess I savedContinue reading “Pray Small Prayers”
Living Faithfully can be Intimidating
We moved to the city of St. Louis in order to change the world through public education. Every one of my preconceived notions about that decision eventually fell flat. I cannot express how wrong I was about so much in my life at the time. We did find a good church, however, and we madeContinue reading “Living Faithfully can be Intimidating”
The Water Bottle Story
So (to start out like Beowulf), I didn’t want the kids drinking out of plastic water bottles anymore, so I bought them some different ones from Amazon. They were very nice, and everyone was excited about it, myself included. More background: you have no idea how “on the fence” I was about Bennett playing basketball.Continue reading “The Water Bottle Story”
Bravery Begins at the Dinner Table
I made up this slogan sometime last year to motivate my son to eat the food on his plate (his sisters don’t have this problem). It’s shown a little success (not as much as other methods), but I still think the phrase is fantastic and I repeat it often. James chapter three talks about theContinue reading “Bravery Begins at the Dinner Table”
He who is faithful in a very little
Oh boy I wanted to be something. To be used by God in a big way! For my church in the city, that meant being a preacher. All the theologically minded at our church wanted to be preachers, coincidentally of course. I’m not sure what the rest of the guys were thinking, they had theirContinue reading “He who is faithful in a very little”
Handwritten Notes
I had an idea. Those come along once in a while; I love it when they do. Sometimes they are ideas that I can take action on immediately, I like those best. The hard ones are ideas for other people; they often don’t care. I’m sure you would, but most people don’t want to hearContinue reading “Handwritten Notes”
What Edie Taught Me
We had our first child when I taught at Cahokia High School. It was the near end of my first year there, and I would spend only two years teaching there. I eventually tried to get out of teaching, but that’s for another time. Since I had only read one book during my time K-12Continue reading “What Edie Taught Me”
Mr. Klunick Tutoring 