Adventures in Babysitting My Own Kids, 24 hours a day, forever
Posted in Things I Like on Mar 16th, 2008
Thhis is Colin. I’m writing because it’s Sunday morning my eyes are a bit fuzzy and I’m realizing looking at the computer how easy it is to accomplish a stereogram effect with the icons on the screen. I’m actually typing wihtout looking at the screen and at a weird angle so forgive the unpolished tone… [...]
Posted in Things I Like on Mar 12th, 2008
http://gmapsmania.googlepages.com/100thingstodowithgooglemapsmashups is a link to a cool list of bunch of things you can do with maps. I love maps!
Posted in Things I Like on Mar 12th, 2008
I got an email from my cousin recommending this blog called Letters to a Parent and I really like it! The link over there goes to the specific letter she recommended, but I think a lot of them are certainly worth reading. The blog has letters and transcribed talks given by parents to parents about “the [...]
Posted in Reviews, Things I Like on Feb 20th, 2008
Yesterday the kids and I went to the zoo with my friend Natalie and her baby, Blake. We got three solid hours of sunshine and fresh air and exercise–it was awesome after what seems like months of being cooped up inside a little apartment. The Little Rock Zoo was somewhat larger than I expected it [...]
Posted in Reviews, Things I Like on Feb 4th, 2008
Today I’m feeling grateful for Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, the book that saved my life, and to our friend Marcie who recommended it to us. When Degen was about Maggie’s age we were at our wit’s end because he was only sleeping about 4 hours in a given 24 hour period, and then only [...]
Posted in Reviews, Things I Like on Nov 27th, 2007
Last night Colin showed me a site called www.w3schools.com that has free online "web building" tutorials. I just finished taking the HTML tutorial and it was quite thorough. I'd never had any education in HTML besides the basic self-taught trial-and-error of building a web page from a template and messing around in Dreamweaver and building a WordPress [...]
Posted in Things I Like on Nov 16th, 2007
Colin set up iGoogle on the computer for me the other day and I really like it. It's kind of a home page or splash page that you can add little gadgets to. Mine has my email and a clock and calendar and a Flylady reminder box and a Book of Mormon Scripture of the [...]
Posted in Things I Like on Nov 15th, 2007
It's time again for one of my very favorite holiday traditions: reading A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens. I read it at least once every year, sometimes more than once, and I can hardly think of anything else that brings the holiday spirit into my life and mood more, except perhaps less prosey and more [...]
Posted in Things I Like on Nov 11th, 2007
When they asked us to move to Arkansas, one of my first thoughts was "I hope they have Redbox there." Yes, that really was one of the first things I checked when analyzing the area. Redbox is a system of ATM-looking machines (big and red) where you can rent movies for $0.99/day, with no membership [...]
Posted in Religion/Church, Things I Like on Nov 7th, 2007
A favorite thing to share with y'all (yes, I live in the South now): http://scriptures.byu.edu/. It's called the "LDS General Conference Scriptural Index," which basically means that you can look up any scripture in the Standard Works (Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine & Covenants, or Pearl of Great Price) and it links you to every [...]