Late Post

I wanted to write a brief note to explain a lack of posts the last few weeks. To a degree, I’ve been expecting for some time that my employer was going to move me to an office in another town about 15 minutes drive away. This week, I packed up all 3 of my boxes of work related material and my computer and moved to said town. The office I’m in is temporary and in a few weeks I’ll be moving to another location (in the same town) and working there for an indefinite number of months (probably 5-10).

Since March, in the area where I’m now working, nothing has shown up for rent that has more than 2 bedrooms. There are places which have been running ads. But, as I’ve found out, some list them on a regular basis whether or not they have anything available. There is alot of compiling of waiting lists. So far, I’ve actually only seen one place that was big enough for us to move (i.e. bring all of our belongings) into. And that house is almost an hour’s drive from my new work location.

I don’t think this has quite reached the depressing stage yet. However, the ads that I’ve seen in the last couple weeks suggest that we are likely going to be living this way for a while. I won’t have any trouble getting a more permanent residence there for me. It won’t be ideal. But, among other things, I’ll be able to go home for lunch and eat ‘real’ food.

Anyway, if you don’t hear much from me in the next week, it’s because it may take all week to setup and have appointments to look at potential places.

Gingerbread Houses #3

You can look at the finished houses here:

See the houses

To read about the process click on Continue Reading
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In Remembrance

I just wanted to post a brief entry that yesterday was the 15th anniversary of the death of my sister-in-law and oldest niece in a car accident. Sarah was born on that niece’s birthday.

We did more on the gingerbread houses and I’ll be posting that later tonight.

Gingerbread Houses #2

Tonight, we baked the parts of the houses. Here is the process in brief.

Rolling dough

The first task is rolling the dough.
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5 Things most people don’t know about me…

Andrea tagged me :)

  • I took 4 years to get through 3 years of high school.
  • I’m my father’s 7th son.
  • In 2 years, I’ll be half as old as my father.
  • In 4 years, I’ll be twice as old as Addison. In 10 years, I’ll be twice as old as Sarah. In 14 years, I’ll be twice as old as Meaghan. And, in 30 years, I’ll be twice as old as Emma. (How old am I?)
  • I like math :)

Tagging anyone who wants it, including Todd.

Gingerbread Houses #1

The first time I made a real gingerbread house was when I was a little boy in my mid 30′s. At the time I was a youth pastor and Kim (the lady who helped sometimes) suggested making gingerbread houses at the Christmas party. I don’t know how many batches of gingerbread she made. The week before the party she brought it on cookie sheets with wax paper between the layers. Everyone that was there cut out their own house and one for someone else. Kim took the pieces back home and baked them. She arrived on the party night with them all baked and all the fixuns to finish them. Quite a few of the regulars invited friends and all of my girls were there. It was the biggest turn out of the year and everyone had a blast.
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Another Photo

Andrea added another photo to our Christmas 2005 album.

Sunrise as seen in the mall parking lot this morning.

Sunrise in NB

Check out the album. Sunset is right above the sunrise photo.

Update: After posting this I saw that Andrea had posted the pic earlier in her blog. We are such geeks that we read each other using a feed reader. The readers are sometimes a few hours behind in listing updates. Her last post wasn’t in the feed reader :)

Christmas Memories

This is another photo entry. I thought of posting this entry for our newer readers (ok, atypicalhomeschool is new, but atypicalife has been around for a few years).

Our tree last year.

Last Year's Tree

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Photo Entry

We are looking for a pic of your Christmas Tree in the forum.

Our Tree

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AN OPEN LETTER TO HSLDA MEMBERS

Daryl has posted a letter (email) from Mary called AN OPEN LETTER TO HSLDA MEMBERS. She expresses an opinion which we share. Events of the last year have changed our opinion in the same way they have hers.