Dan and Jen’s Blog

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Dinah really loves to play in everyone’s shoes, but especially Mommy’s high heels. This was last December, so she’s almost 2 in these shots.

To blogging, that is. Hopefully. We’ll see. I’d advise you against any breath-holding. It’s been a year since we moved to Hannibal, MO from Kentucky and has brought gobs of changes. We’ve been in our first house for a year, existed as a one-car family as a year, had Sophie for a year (we love [...]

Here are some pictures of some Bumbo fun we had with Sophie mid-November.

Dinah is walking around repeating “nuh-mah-nuh-mah” over and over again. I thought I’d share that right off the bat. With this whole light bedrest thing that I’m on because I’d progressed a little when I went in to the OB this week, Dan has been going and getting Dinah out of her crib in the [...]

Glory to God for this very blunt and honest conversion story! I can’t begin to tell you how encouraging it is (and it’ll take you 5 minutes to read, so make a sandwich, sit down, and enjoy!). My prayer for this man is that he would immerse himself in a Bible-believing church who would help [...]

I have reading glasses. After Dinah was born, I noticed that my vision wasn’t as superb as it once was. This could have had nothing to do with Dinah’s birth and everything to do with me getting older. Dunno. Nonetheless, I went to see Dr. Kelli who gave me a rockin’ prescription and since then, [...]

From a conversation last week: Me: Are you going to help Dinah make me a present [for Mother's Day]? Dan: I’ll help her make you a present in her diaper. Ha! (Note: He did get me a present, so don’t send him any nasty-grams.)

Do not buy liquid detergent whose packaging is smashed/smooshed on the bottom and do not treat liquid detergent as if it were indestructible by banging it around during the transition from shelf to cart, cart to car, and car to laundry room floor (who am I kidding? It sat by the front door for at [...]