Every day I wake I tell myself a little harmless lie:
The whole wide world is mine

Well its done. The last difficult conversation has been had, so I can share our news with you all. This likely won’t come as a surprise — to those who don’t already know. But its big for us, and its been important to approach it as the massive challenge that it is…
We’re moving back to [...]

Posted on January 22nd, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
Filed under: Abigail, Benjamin, Current News & Events, Faith & Ministry, Politics, Travel & Adventure | 13 Comments »

Please don’t stop the music - a Benjamin update from Nicole

Despite having an ear infection for the past 2 months, Benjamin is doing great and still making us laugh.

Since the last big update Ben now has 4 teeth, two on the top, huge ones that look like Chiclets, and two on the bottom. I think some more might be coming in soon. He is walking [...]

Posted on January 12th, 2008 by Nicole Wise
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Happy Birthday, buddy!

Although I’ve managed to find WiFi almost everywhere we’ve been, my Craptop has not been behaving, so getting online hasn’t been a frequent occurrence. The iPhone manages to keep me from withdrawal symptoms, though, and things are usually pretty quiet around the Internets this time of year. I had to come out of my blogcation [...]

Posted on December 28th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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Working from home

So for the last couple days, they’ve been warning about the “severe weather” that was coming. Churches shut down, people (us included) scrambled to the malls to do their shopping, and we all prepared for the worst. We rented some more episodes of 24, and even bought a snow shovel. Earlier in the week, we [...]

Posted on December 17th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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Thank You!

Thank you to everyone who was a part of Benjamin’s birthday party tonite — and especially to the Matula’s for throwing it. It was wonderful to see you all! We’ve missed everyone, and it was great to have friends surrounding our little guy with love for his birthday.

Posted on December 14th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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Hot or Not?

A couple new things on the site for you to check out:
- Posts can now be rated. After the whole ClickComments fiasco, I’m a little gun-shy about putting this up, but this plug-in prevents multiple clicks from the same user, so hopefully this will be more useful for actual feedback. As before, this is for [...]

Posted on November 26th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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Things to consider when debating whether or not to have children:

#1 - Forget having nice stuff
It may seem worthwhile to have an HD-TV… but the picture doesn’t really look that good when the screen is perpetually covered with grimy little hand prints.
And that sleek universal remote you’ve got that controls your entire home theater? It doesn’t work as well when a little monster chews the [...]

Posted on November 25th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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Baby Steps

Benjamin is 10 months old, and still growing like a weed. He is quite comfortable walking now, in most situations — wearing socks on a slippery floor is still challenging for him. He toddles around the house, crawling only to get into more tricky spots. Turning is by far the most amusing.
Next time you turn [...]

Posted on November 11th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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If ingested, contact Poison Control immediately

Now that Benjamin can get around on his own, the requirements for our jobs as parents has gone up a notch. He’s been crawling for awhile, and its still his primary mode of transportation. But when he combines his crawling skills with his standing skills, he can suddenly get into a lot more trouble.
The other [...]

Posted on October 18th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
Filed under: Benjamin | 2 Comments »

Learning to get around

Over the past couple months Benjamin has gotten more and more mobile. A little over 3 weeks ago he took his first tentative step. Since then we’ve pretty much had to trick him into walking — distract him with a toy or something so he doesn’t realise he’s not holding on to anything. Last week [...]

Posted on October 15th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
Filed under: Benjamin | 6 Comments »

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