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30 August 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Learning to Pray From a Two Year Old

Almost every night I put my two year old daughter to bed. It’s about an hour long process between bath time, brushing her teeth, reading a book and Bible, prayer time, and singing songs. It’s honestly one of my favorite parts of my day, because I know she will be doing these things on her [...]

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14 July 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Uno, Dos, Tres, Taco [video]

Kids say the funniest things:

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01 June 2010 ~ 8 Comments

7 Highlights & Mistakes From My 5,000 Tweets

I’ve been sitting up against a milestone in my life. I’m about tweet for the 5,000th time. In fact if I time things right, this blog post announcement auto-tweet will be my 5,000th. It’s not really that life-changing of an event, but I figured now would be a good time to reflect on some of [...]

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01 March 2010 ~ 2 Comments

Three Lessons I Learned About Blog Traffic This Past Month

I think everyone who has a blog goes through stages in his or her blogging. Inevitably a blogger hits a wall. The inspiration to write disappears and you feel like you don’t really have anything valuable to offer the blogosphere. I hit that wall this past year big time, but over the past couple weeks [...]

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26 February 2010 ~ 7 Comments

Gorditas and The Curse of Knowledge

Sometimes a normal, seemingly every day encounter can teach you an important life lesson. The other day Brea (my wife) had asked me go by Taco Bell for dinner and, since she’s over six months pregnant, she gets what she wants. She couldn’t remember if she liked the Gordita or Chalupa better, so she described [...]

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24 February 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Same Kind of Different as Me [Book Review]

I tend to read mostly non-fiction, leadership, or personal development books in my personal reading. So when Brea (my wife) and about half a dozen other people suggested that I read Same Kind of Different as Me, I hesitated. While the book is non-fiction, it’s more of a biography than anything else. I wasn’t sure [...]

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12 February 2010 ~ 0 Comments

A Ridiculously Easy (and Free) Way to Keep Your Toddler Entertained

Having a little one around the house is awesome. But there are times that she’s not as entertained as normal by the same toys/videos/games she plays with every day. When these moments come we, as parents, sometime are stuck trying to come up with new ways to keep our little ones’ minds entertained. It can [...]

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