Answered Prayers

We got an update from our friends in Texas! - an answer to our prayers.

Just got back into town ....everything fine. It was a Cat 5 & headed a bit north of here so there was a mandatory evacuation (ick...). We left and made it up to Ron's folks in west Texas(who are too far out for even cellular phone coverage). By the time we got there, Rita had changed course and the evacuation was rescinded for Corpus (thankfully...kinda wish it had just gone NW in the first place, but since when we left we didn't expect much left to come back to...given expected wind damage, etc...we are trying to remember to feel thankful & not annoyed by the stress & travel...we are very glad to have a home with furniture & intact windows & ESPECIALLY air conditioning since it was 102 with heat index of 117 today in Corpus).

Thank you so much for your prayers...I don't believe that Rita changed course until you guys started praying...of course the folks in east Texas may have some complaints. Please keep on praying because they are forecasting the "possibility" of two addition tropical waves, developing into storms, into hurricanes...headed for the gulf of Mexico next week.... The sooner the "fall" cool off comes the better... apparently the water is still warm enough for the storms to be Category 5's again......

Answered Prayers

Book Review: In the Beginning...There Were No Diapers

In the Beginning . . . There Were No Diapers: Laughing and Learning in the First Years of Fatherhood by Tim Bete.

This is a great book. Laugh out loud funny. Much of it reminded me of my own experiences as a new father a few years ago.

The chapters are short enough to get through if you only have a few minutes of reading time, and each ends on a postive note about God's work in our relationships with our children. Though it's billed as a humor book, it is also quite inspirational, especially the last chapter. Tim Bete makes it clear God always has a plan, whether or not we can see it or understand it - even when children are acting like children. And the author definitely shows a love for his children through his writing.

I only had two minor - very very minor - issues with the book, and I hesitate to even mention them because they are rather petty on my part. A couple of times it seemed the author kept going with the humor even after we had gotten the point. And it seems like I've always seen "badda bing badda boom" spelled that way instead of the way the author spells it ("botta bing botta boom") Again, that's just me. I did a Google search on both spellings, and it seems both are used. Those two things didn't spoil my enjoyment of the book though. I recommend any father read this book - and I'm going to try to get my wife to read it too just because it's
that good!

This is a review for Mind&Media, the author provided the book to that website for distribution for this, and other, reviews.

Free books are cool!

Book Review: In the Beginning...There Were No Diapers

Upcoming Reviews

For Mind&Media, I'll be reviewing several products:

How To Write, by Herbert E. Meyer and Jill M. Meyer.

This is an ebook available for only $1.99 and is published by Storm King Press.


Another book I'll be reviewing shortly (I'm almost finished with it!) is In the Beginning . . . There Were No Diapers: Laughing and Learning in the First Years of Fatherhood by Tim Bete. He also won the grand prize in the 2005 Writer's Digest Best Writer's Web Site contest.


And finally (so far), I'll shortly be reviewing is a CD by
Paul Aldrich called Mock and Roll.

Upcoming Reviews

Kids Hear the Darndest Things

Kids hear the darndest things!

Sometimes it's hard to make out the words to songs...

• "God bless America through the night with a light from a bulb!"


• "O Susanna, Oh don't you cry for me, for I come from Alabama with a band-aid on my knee!"


• "Give us this day our deli bread! Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Whole East Coast."


• "We shall come to Joyce's bringing in the cheese."


• "Yield not to Penn Station."


• "While shepherds washed their socks by night."


• "Praise God from whom all blessings flow, praise Him all creatures, here we go."
  

Original Source: Unknown. I got it from a daily email newsletter that didn't credit it.
If you know the original source, comment it and I'll add that to the post.

Kids Hear the Darndest Things

A little prayer request

OK...rather big request and her name is RITA. ...telling her politely to leave has not worked. ..therefore we are leaving (actually we have to ...not that I'd want to share a room with her
anyway). Eventually we are making our way to Ron's folks in West Texas. The holdup seems to be that the Army wants Ron to stay (for a while longer at least) ...seems they aren't too concerned about Rita...or they are and Ron's an asset they want to keep local. ..(although they haven't said where yet). So, HELP ...prayers Please...

That's an email we received Wednesday from a family friend that lives in Texas. Seems like everyone has a friend or relative that lives in Texas - they all need our prayers.

A little prayer request

Stuff

Oh yeah - We finally heard back from the radiologist on Elizabeth's knee - what? Last week?
No fracture. The dark line on the x-ray was just a growth mark (growth plate?).

Rubi's been busy adapting to her new part-time job, and running Elizabeth here and yonder, and working out occasionally, and trying to find time to spend with her friends.

Alexander and Catherine started preschool (Catherine is in preschool, Alexander is in pre-K). Alexander goes Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, while Catherine goes on Tuesday and Thursday.

So I'm driving across town every single day to take the yunguns to preschool for 2 and a half hours a day.

Most days, Rubi will ride with us and walk in whichever kid has school that day. Then I'll drive her to work. After that, me and the remaining kiddo go to the Y, which is just a few blocks away from Rubi's work. I'll stick the kid in the "babysitting" room, and go work out for a bit, maybe 45 minutes.

Then back to preschool to pick up a kid. Back home for a nap (the kids and me!), then maybe some housework and lunch before we go pick up Rubi from work.

That's the mornings around here.

Afternoons, I work most days. As soon as Rubi gets home from work, she leaves again to go pick up Elizabeth from school and do her afternoon errands (soccer, workout, time with her friends, housework, whatever).

Stuff

Huh?

What's that?
Rubi and I have a blog?
We're supposed to write in it every so often?

Oh.

Sorry. Been busy.
RLTB
(thanks Curt for the acronym).

Huh?