Author Archives: kristen

Curious Minds

So in previous blogging manifestations I always had one of those counters and I would look regularly at who was reading here: how many, when, etc.  Eventually I got over the whole counter thing and we never put one up when we switched to WordPress (and may have not had one for a while before then, I can’t remember.)  Overall, comments have remained steady the whole time we’ve blogged (almost six years for me!) so when I logged into our server and realized that they track stats for us and clicked, I expected to see similar numbers as before.  They were way way higher than I expected.  Who are all you people reading and lurking?

Happy Birthday, Mom!

Happy Birthday!  We love and miss you and wish we could have spent the day with you.

HT: Richard O

You can now listen to two of Andrew Peterson’s albums in their entirety online–


The Far Country
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Behold the Lamb of God
Behold the Lamb of God

These are pretty amazing CDs. You ought to own them. Go listen and convince yourself.

Maybe I am a Winner, After All

I am not a winner. I never win anything. I used to blame it on being reformed. I’d say things like “Presbyterians never win anything.” Then I met this family here in Birmingham that won a $100,000 contest they didn’t even intentionally enter while they were members of a PCA church. So I can’t say that anymore.

I started doing Blingo in June. I don’t do 10 searches every day for maximum entries, but I do use it. Today, when I least expected it, I typed “pumpkin chocolate chip” into the Firefox search bar with Blingo as my search engine and I won a $10 iTunes giftcard (which means J.T. did, too, as my referrer!) It’s not an iPod (we could use a new one…) but it’s something. Maybe I’m a winner after all.

All Saints Day

In honor of All Saints Day, Kate’s favorite hymn to sing.

I sing a song of the saints of God,
patient and brave and true,
who toiled and fought and lived and died
for the Lord they loved and knew.
And one was a doctor, and one was a queen,
and one was a shepherdess on the green;
they were all of them saints of God, and I mean,
God helping, to be one too.

They loved their Lord so dear, so dear,
and his love made them strong;
and they followed the right for Jesus’ sake
the whole of their good lives long.
And one was a soldier, and one was a priest,
and one was slain by a fierce wild beast;
and there’s not any reason, no, not the least,
why I shouldn’t be one too.

They lived not only in ages past;
there are hundreds of thousands still.
The world is bright with the joyous saints
who love to do Jesus’ will.
You can meet them in school, or in lanes or at sea,
In church, or in trains or in shops or at tea,
for the saints of God are just folk like me,
and I mean to be one too.
— written by Lesbia Scott for her own children

Excuses, Good Wishes and Shameless Self Promotion

Happy Halloween or Reformation Day or whatever-you-wish-to-celebrate this 31st day of October. We’re taking our kids trick-or-treating on the street tonight but we did go to a Reformation Day party over the weekend so I think we’re covered. I wish I had known about this before naptime because I totally would have wrapped Lexi in some tin foil for a burrito.

We’ve been busy. Someday I’ll blog about our day without cable service and how Charter annoys me. Here’s a picture to show what has really kept me from blogging: my sweet and active girls and my newly painted foyer.

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The 15% off sale at Winged Feet Design ends Sunday. Get those orders in!

BTDT

The Stormin’ Mormons

Somehow I found myself on Ken Jennings’ blog. One of those random web-surfing experiences. Some of his posts were funny enough for me to read aloud to Mike. In the midst of our giggling, we decided Ken Jennings is one of the poster children for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Then Mike declared, “Ken Jennings and MITT ROMNEY! They should run together. The Republican ticket would be the stormin’ Mormons!”

The story is true but I really wrote this post to prove that memorizing the correct capitalization and punctuation for the Mormon church for a class in college really was worthwhile. If only I could learn my cell phone number.

Toad Sucking Dog

This story from All Things Considered amused me this afternoon.

Do you like Green Eggs and Ham?

Everytime I read or hear a story about Sen. Sam Brownback, I like him more.  I don’t have a lot of faith in politicians, but I’d like to see him nominated for the presidency.  Is there any better Republican for 2008?

Hopefully I will write a review of Simply Christian and something about vaccinations this week.  I am on a good blogging streak…

The Christian’s Hope Can Never Fail

We travel through a barren land,
With dangers thick on every hand;
But Jesus guides us through the vale;
O, The Christian’s hope can never fail. Continue reading

An Occasional Update from WFD

Winged Feet Design (my little work-at-home venture) just announced a pretty significant and exciting change: all of our full-service announcements will now be printed by an outstanding printing house in either 5×7 or 5×5 square instead of the old 4×6. More information on the orders page of the website. I’m really glad I could institute this change before the holiday season. The quality difference from our previous printing places (local big box or drug stores) is very pronounced and I’m glad to be able to offer the very best to all of my customers. We have and will continue to offer a design-only option for customers who’d prefer to print themselves for the best deal and we will continue to design those in 4×6 or any other size you’d like. To celebrate this change, I’m offering 15% off holiday announcements ordered by November 5th. Just send me your pictures, text and ideas by the end of the day November 5th and I’ll apply the discount.