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What can I say? It feels good to know that sometime today the last payment will be drafted from our checking account (shouldn’t they change the name since nobody writes checks anymore? debit account?) and that we own both cars, outright. Who cares that they decrease in value? At least we don’t owe [...]
I have tears streaming down my face right now. I just saw the Trailer for Ricki Lake’s documentary film about birth. The film embodies my philosophy and also my experience of having had one hospital and one completely, utterly, joyfully UNMESSEDWITH birth.
Three quotes from the trailer really grabbed my heart.
Cesarian is extremely [...]
Congrats to my amazing friend Amy and her family on the arrival of Audrey Jeanette! She was born at 11:39 a.m. weighing 8 pounds, 6 ounces and 20.5 inches long.
Amy is a relatively new friend of mine (by that I mean in the last few years) but such a kindred spirit [...]
They’ll be traveling to Chicago in December to perform at Midwest.
CPMS Band Selected for Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic
In December, the Cedar Park Middle School Band will perform at the prestigious Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago.
The Cedar Park Middle School Band was the only middle school band selected [...]
I wonder if God uses the songs stuck in our heads to speak to us. I have had this song stuck in my head for days, every free minute a line or two of it is just repeated over and over and over again. And while most of the time this drives me nuts, it [...]
It’s true. There is nothing fun about it. Zilch. Nada. Zip. Nothing.
A week ago today I thought I was going to die. I cried out to God every second of the day from 10:20 am until 5 am Friday morning because I could not handle the overload of pain and fever and weakness and [...]
Here is the info about James’ child dedication service. There will likely be zillions of children being dedicated at the same time.
And in other news, James is now able to take about 5 steps before he faceplants. I wouldn’t call it walking, but he’s getting awfully close to walking and he only just [...]
We survived! “What?” you ask… W-ell, let me tell you.
The first half of the day was pretty calm around here. We started talking about things that would be nice to have (such as a king size bed, a video monitor for the nursery with night-vision, a new desk for the compy (our armoire is [...]
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Mark and Becky were gracious enough to allow us the priveledge of visiting their new family while they were still at RRMC. I hope the laughs that were had between Mark and David and Mark’s brother, Andrew, and Becky’s mom did not cause Becky too [...]
James’ girlfriend was just born this morning. James says he doesn’t know what a girlfriend is, but he smiled real big.
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Jenna Evelyn Miller
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