Tag: Stephanie
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Missionary Visit
A pair of full time missionaries from my ward showed up unexpectedly this afternoon. We talked for about an hour. They’re good “kids.” Twenty somethings. Straight out of Utah. We talk about life, The Church, the church apps, my lack of orthodoxy, and Stephanie’s Druidry. I also tried to explain the “empty holy” to them.…
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Bed Bugs
Our son William lives in an assisted living apartment building. Someone in the building got bed bugs. This person brought the bed bugs into the laundry room for the building. They closed the laundry room to have it sanitized. William thought he should use a laundromat. Stephanie and I suggested he use our washer and…
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Locked Up
It’s Friday night and you know what that means? No one has to go anywhere tomorrow. Well maybe Stephanie will. But I can stay in the house with the children. All the cats are in the house as well though they will probably want to be outside tomorrow. And I have a goal to touch…
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Tomorrow
We are just beginning to teach Ben the concept of waiting for tomorrow. Stephanie doesn’t want to reward his demands. I am more worried that the demands are for instant gratification. We had to tell him for hours that electricians don’t work at night and that he would have to wait until the next day…
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Broken Breaker
Tonight as he often does Ben requested a light bulb. Stephanie changed the one that dysregulated him but it did not turn back on. As I examined the situation I noticed that several other lights were out. I went down and one of the breakers in our electrical box had tripped. I switched it back…
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Too Many Video Games?
I am a first generation commercial gamer. I played the Atari when it came out at seven. By twelve I had branched out to Dungeons & Dragons. A few years later I worked all summer to afford a Commodore 64, a disk drive, a cassette recorder, and enough games to keep me out of any…
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Today was Hard
My youngest son started screaming this morning. I don’t know why. I gave him his morning pills and that helped for a while. But his dysregulation returned pretty quickly. He was screaming again an hour later and got an emergency pill. He went out to sit in the car, honked the horn for a few…
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Black Cat on a Friday Night
It’s 10 pm and Ether is still outside. That always concerns Stephanie and me a bit. But tonight in particular Ben is anxious that the cat is out. He doesn’t like the cats outside but has come to accept it during the day. But at night they all need to be inside for him to…
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Just Four More Minutes
I didn’t want to get out of bed today. I bargained for a few more minutes of sleep. Now mind you it hasn’t been a bad day. Stephanie had a horrible day but I’ll let her tell you about that. Ben came home screaming and got an emergency pill, but at least he didn’t attack…
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Corn and Tomatoes
Stephanie has a garden. We are both keeping an eye on it. The corn is growing very well as are the tomatoes. We’ve got a few beans and one long squash vine. It’s a pretty good attempt.
