Dates with Grandma

Mom is taking each of the kids to do something of their choosing. Some of them were a bit slow to decide what they wanted to do, but Emma knew right away. She wanted to get her ears pierced. After a week of deliberations, her daddy agreed and off they went. Grandma has camera issues (which would be why it didn't go to lunch with Anne Michal and her to Blue Baker) and she forgot to take pictures so they went back and Emma sat in the chair and posed.

Doing What I Say, Not What I Do

The leader of one Mexican drug cartel called "the Family" has insisted that when gang members are not selling cocaine and murdering rivals, they attend gang-run classes in ethics, values, and personal improvement, and abstain from drugs and alcohol.

April 2009 Book Log

28. On Beauty and Being Just by Elaine Scarry
29. The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
30. Street of Shadows by Michael Reaves
31. Believing God by R.C. Sproul, Jr.
32. Is Christianity God for the World? by Christopher Hitchens and Douglas Wilson

Just Because

He'd be 3 1/2 today...

Names in the Sand

This picture is from this site. This family have a ministry of writing children's names in the sand and taking a picture. Every time they open up their site for names they get flooded with emails. I stayed up last night to submit it and was floored they did it today.

**Make sure you click on the link.

Silly Criminals

A Houston man robbed a bank and stuffed the bundles of cash down his pants as he raced from the bank. He was taken to a hospital with second-degree burns in a sensitive area after the dye-packs exploded.

lightbulb moment

It occurred to me that some of the people that I think do some things so wrong do some really important things so right. I am not sure just where that happens to leave me, but am grateful for the perspective it gives me.