Random Acts of Mind by Dones

Trophy Wife
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We were house-hunting & came across this collection of female bodybuilding trophies, & thought it was worth sharing.

Note: Please see posts The Best-Laid Plans… and Lessons Learned From a Parent’s Death for a bit of context for this post. I am not allowing comments for this post, and am respectfully removing comments from these other posts. If anyone wants to discuss this with me privately, please do so by sending email […]

John Mayer
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Ben Folds
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I don’t mean this post to be disrespectful to anyone. These are just some things to think about as parents and grandparents (and we ourselves) get older.
Here are some general recommendations and observations I have gathered up regarding the death of a parent, and the ‘business’ of handling the estate of a lost loved […]

Cell Reception is Good in the Cemetary
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Making funeral arrangements for a parent stinks. But God has been merciful so far this week.

Got a call this morning that my mother-in-law passed away overnight. I will doubtless be away from the blog until matters can be sorted out on this front. Please keep us and all our previously-stated plans in your thoughts & prayers.

We’ve started the domestic adoption process, and part of that process is putting together a picture book of our lives that the expectant mother to look through to select adoptive parents for her child. It’s been quite a fun process for us to go through old family photos, and my mom sent me one […]