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Completely missed the point

Posted on December 19, 2005December 30, 2019 by Paul Armstrong

So, the kids weren’t feeling well most the weekend, which tends toward a long and tiring (and whiny) time. Overall it wasn’t bad, especially being able to get out and see a great show by a band we know so well that its like home. We also got to spend some time getting to know…

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My Hands

Posted on December 18, 2005December 30, 2019 by Sonya Armstrong

As I look at my hands I see my mother’s hands, as I remember them when I was young; the well defined creases around the knuckles that revealed beauty with aging. I used to love to hold my mother’s hand in church and feel her nails and look at her fingers; I studied them well….

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It only makes sense

Posted on December 14, 2005December 17, 2019 by Paul Armstrong

Today Elliott had a mini-Christmas show at his pre-school; where the kids sang a few songs and teachers told the Christmas story. I had brought the video camera and camera. Unfortunately the video camera was left on by someone cough Sonya cough, so we couldn’t capture what unfolded. And whate exactly unfolded I hear you…

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Emotional Pain

Posted on December 11, 2005December 11, 2019 by Sonya Armstrong

Emotional pain can go undetected by onlookers when the person with the pain has lived with it for so long. Everyone has seen some sort of pain in their lives; not too many are strangers of it; it can help us to be shaped and to grow and to lean on God in desperate ways,…

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Tales of embarrassing parent moments

Posted on December 10, 2005December 11, 2019 by Paul Armstrong

I’m not even sure I should be telling this story, but for the sake of free information and a great tale, I must share this. Only moments ago Sonya and I were in the kitchen talking and sharing as is usual on our Saturdays. Abigail was outside in the snow, playing and walking and being…

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Did I just say that out loud?

Posted on December 5, 2005December 11, 2019 by Paul Armstrong

The bedtime ritual can be either incredibly easy and effortless or a battle with a relentless, excuse-laden and twisting foe (involving wrestling holds and a rock-solid exit policy). Last night Elliott asked me to tell him a story, one I made up, but that helps him settle down and sleep – “The (Imaginary) Legend of…

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Lots of small and dusty reasons

Posted on December 3, 2005December 11, 2019 by Paul Armstrong

Since I threw Abigail under the bus a few days ago it seems only fair that I throw Elliott too. Now with Elliott there is the common quirkiness of boyish pleasure in bodily noises (which I fully encourage and I can only hope, inspire) and the extreme desire for violence (throwing, punching, screaming). This seems…

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I love the world and all it’s problems

Posted on December 1, 2005December 11, 2019 by Paul Armstrong

The world is saturated with self-diagnosis. I’m not a fan of all the marketing driven “emotional issue” products that seems to introduce a new neurosis every month (Attention Overload Disorder, Multiple Bowel Syndrome, Overexposed Thumb Cramping, or whatever). Often it seems a convenient label to absolve people from being reasonable and self-controlled. But when things…

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A nice way to end a vacation

Posted on November 28, 2005December 9, 2019 by Paul Armstrong

How was Thanksgiving you ask? Good. Overall good. It’s never a vacation as a parent, though as the kids get older there is less to fuss over. Though, our kids are weird – they wanted to go NO WHERE. Absolutely no where. “Hey, let’s go to the aquarium in Baltimore!” — “I don’t want to”,…

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Brain Freeze

Posted on November 22, 2005December 6, 2019 by Sonya Armstrong

I can’t think of anything else to describe the fact that I have so much to do and am overwhelmed by preparing our family and our house for flying tomorrow, that I am almost paralyzed — so I call it brain freeze. If I just get up and begin ONE activity then it will get…

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