June 2008
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My Life as a Play: Saying Your Sorry
Setting: Mommy has taken Jacob to Chuck E Cheese to play and eat pizza. While riding the Chuck E car that takes your picture, Jacob had to go pee very badly. He stands up but is unsure what to do since the ride is not over and no 3-year old boy leaves a ride early. [...]
Our Church’s Website
Go check out our church’s new website: www.springfieldbaptistchurch.org. It got significantly revamped a few months back and the content is mostly filled in. We still need to work on some more pages, but I am very happy with what we have. Shannon worked hard on the children’s section and it looks the best of any [...]
Baby Dedication ceremony script
As I mentioned last week, we had Ava’s baby dedication on Father’s day. As children’s minster, Shannon has had to come up with our baby dedication ceremony. We looked online for some resources for what to say, but she never found a script that she felt captured the spirit of baby dedication without being too [...]
Father’s Day
Last Sunday was of course Father’s Day. Shannon had kept telling Jacob it was my “special day” which he parroted back in the from a question, “Daddy, is today your special day” about 20 times on Sunday. All this week he asks, “Daddy, is today your special day?” At church that morning, we had Ava’s [...]
Remembering Mom and Dad Varden
Today is the 2nd anniversary of the death of Shannon’s parents. A friend of Shannon’s, who herself lost her young child in a car accident, said you never get over it. Loss of a child is far worse than losing your middle aged parents, but the truth is deaths of close family members are ones [...]
Beaches, Lauas and Life In-between
Our last 2 weeks have been quite hectic but very fun. For Memorial Day, we took a trip down to Gulf Shores with the kids. It is an eight hour trip with a newborn and a 3 year old. Just past the half way point on the way down, I thought to myself, “What are [...]
