Baby Product Recall--Fisher Price

Because it's Monday...

Jimmy...it's what's for breakfast

That's Effective Parenting

Four-year-old, out of the blue: "I won't ever say that bad word to Nana again."

Mom, clueless: "Um...That's good, honey. What bad word was that?"

Child with sheepish grin, shrugged shoulders, blushing face: "..."

Wise mom, leans over to hear terrible secret: "Want to tell me in my ear so no one else has to hear it?"

Child, nodding eagerly, whispers loudly: "I...can't....remember!"

A Husbandly Hero

When I was young and stupid(er) and dating, I wasn't thinking about marriage. I wasn't thinking about the characteristics of an admirable man who could be the father of my children. In fact, thinking didn't really factor into the process. I dated by chance whomever came along. Discernment never went much beyond registering a gut level attraction. In light of that I'm pretty lucky to be married to the man I married because the men I dated, with very few exceptions, would have turned that car the other way...
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Eye candy...

Can you imagine reading in a library this beautiful? Yeah, me neither. I don't even know if I'd be able to remember to ever try.

El Escorial Library, San Lorenzo, Spain

Strahov Philosophical Hall

Real Gabinete Portugues De Leitura Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

Abbey Library St. Gallen, Switzerland

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