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a new song
good morning, dear readers. i woke up this morning feeling somewhat aimless. when i feel aimless, i do one of two things. i sit around doing nothing or zoning with a movie or the internet, or i...
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...and it's time to reconfigure the budget
Hello, gentle readers.Philip and I have this tendency. I'm not sure yet whether it's a good one or a bad one. We have a tendency to spend a month or two (or a year or two) to "discuss" things we'd like...
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a book list...or maybe not
it's a snow day today, so i have time and some motivation to blog! we'll see how this "living intentionally" thing goes when i don't have a schedule to follow.today i finished writing my book list from...
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You will not believe how intentional I have been these last 3 days. You would...
In the last two and a half days, here is a large list of things I've done intentionally. I'm pretty proud of myself:called my boss three times to tell him I'm not coming in today (yesterday, the day...
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up to the highest heights
Al & Greg visited this weekend. We went cross-country skiing up at Baker on perhaps the most beautiful day ever. Al & Greg have good skiing juju. So far skiing only works for us when it's with...
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the quality of mercy is not strained
two weeks of craziness behind us, and yet more craziness lies ahead. dad & mom de jong visited for a week, then dad & mom van dyken along with mark & jordan came right on their heels. some...
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raindrops keep falling on my head
last week was a long week. between philip beginning school, me wading through piles of papers to be graded just to get to my desk, beginning a new unit with my 8th graders, waiting anxiously for spring...
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ode to felicia
i sold the focus this week. felicia the focus is now happily settled one block away with one of our friends from small group. the money is nice. and we don't need the extra car. but i still feel like a...
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airless lungs, stretching tulips, and my favorite holiday
good morning, gentle readers,i have gotten into the nasty habit of going for 15-minute wogs a few times a week. actually, it's not a nasty habit. i think it's probably good for me, despite my inability...
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back for a bit
we're back from a 2 1/2 week road trip which included 4 days in missoula, 2ish days in sioux center, 7 days in branson, and the rest of the days in transit. i love road trips. i much prefer them to...
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i am a 6-year-old
one of al's pictures from somewhere in montana (probably). love that big midwestern sky.as i wrote on the family blog, we ordered a new camera (a nikon coolpix l120) that was supposed to arrive by...
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the ideal marriage
i have a bunch of thoughts, and i'm not sure i have the talent or patience to organize them. so here goes.last night i finished reading the brothers k. it took well over a month of pretty consistent...
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ten years later
i was 17, a senior in high school. i was in my car in the dordt parking lot after dutch class, waiting for andrew kroeze and dan de jong to get out of calculus so that we could head to unity for the...
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color trip
last weekend, philip & i took a color trip up towards baker. taking color trips is a van dyken tradition which i was glad to add to our traditions. it was a beautiful day, and while we didn't...
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couch time: my booklist
i've been on the couch all weekend. as in, i have not even brushed my teeth today (and it's 5:17 p.m.) ick. i have a cold, have used up 1 1/2 rolls of toilet paper (on my nose!), and have books...
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one little word
this morning, i said no.choir has been nuts lately. we're singing great music, but suddenly one of the songs we're singing (an opera) has turned into a huge stage production. i'm only worried because...
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new year.
much has happened since my last post. thanksgiving, christmas, and a pile of visitors and stress.let me say first that christmas was excellent. we flew to a snow-less iowa and spent 8 days immersed in...
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a little bit of peace
many changes since the last post. my new attitude toward the situation made the time with rod and vonnie and other family special and memorable. we said goodbye to grandpa on january 3, and...
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snow days
we are on snow day #4 here in whatcom county. my three-day weekend (thanks to mlk, jr. day) turned into a nine-day weekend.i'm not really complaining, except that this was supposed to be exam week, we...
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a smattering
a few things on my mind:1. money (always.) today i paid off all my student loans (yayyyy!!), and now i'm thinking of the next step. philip's loans. he has a lot more that we need to pay off, and i'm...
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