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Until last week, we hadn’t pulled our wooden blocks out in quite a while. Jonathan is having a blast with them. Jonathan’s version of one of our Ikea bookcases: He tells me that this is a slide: The boys playing together: “Hmm, what’s this?” says Jacob. A morning of building fun at our house.
Save Money, Eat Healthy: Tortillas
Homemade tortillas. Sound intimidating? I thought they did for the longest time but I’ve so wanted to learn how to make them. A couple weeks ago we were getting some groceries at Compare Foods when Josh saw a lady making homemade corn tortillas. Josh plus store food samples will always mean trouble for me. He…
Book Review: The Next Christians
I had the opportunity to hear Gabe Lyons at Catalyst a few years ago when he has a part of a panel speaking about his previous book, UnChristian. I didn’t ever get around to reading that book, but when I saw this book and it’s topic, I was drawn to read it. For so many…
More on our chores
You may have noticed that putting laundry away and getting dressed are on our chore chart. We decided it was time to show Jonathan how to fold and put away his own laundry as well as pick out his own clothes and put them on. Josh sat down with Jonathan on Saturday and showed him…
Behavior / Chore Chart
Josh and I have been trying to come up with a better plan for tracking Jonathan’s chores and encouraging him to obey, have a good attitude, etc. I read this post last week about how one mom created a chore chart and thought that this might work well for Jonathan. I bought the chore chart…