Parenting with love, humor and the gospel.
"Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger."
Psalm 8:2
Last night (Monday, September 8, 2008) our home group met after a long break for the summer. It was an absolutely awesome time of fellowship. However, that’s not what I’m going to talk about. This story starts when we finally arrived back at home around 9:30 PM. I unlocked the front door and walked in, …
As we all know from our own personal childhoods, either you “get” and love math or you don’t. If your child is not enthusiastic about learning math, and even if they are, then this company has come up with a great tool which motivates kids to learn math without even knowing it! Big Brainz, Inc. …
So yesterday I met a goal that I had made for myself of running a 10k. The race that I participated in was sponsored by Nike and was titled The Human Race. This was because it took place all over the world and you did not necessarily have to be at a particular location. How …
My wife and I actually had some time out a while back. After dropping the kids off with my parents we headed to one of our favorite restaurants, Bonefish Grill, and had a very nice (and quiet) meal. Afterwards we headed over to the movie theatre and watched The Dark Knight (yeah it’s been that …
It’s been over four months since I had a migraine, so I guess I’ve started to forget what they were like. It’s almost as if I never had them; just a faint memory of a bad time in my life. Yesterday evening it struck again though. It was very unexpected. Right after dinner the kids, …
Yesterday I personally contributed to the destruction of an entire rain forest. Well… that may be a slight exaggeration. I did cut my back yard, though, which was pretty darn close to the same thing. You see a couple of weeks ago I broke the handle to our lawnmower. And when I say broke, I …
I stumbled across this blog post that had me laughing and in stitches. I seriously haven’t read anything this funny in a while. Apprently some guy was overseas and went out to eat at a nice restaurant. His wife informed him that the menu was in English as well. The mangled English translation was so …
I installed a new theme on the Franzone Family Blog. It was way past time for a change and the other theme I was using didn’t support the latest version of WordPress. This theme is called Fervens and was created by a site called Design Disease. I was showing somebody the new look and the …
Here is a hilarious video from Mark Gungor on the differences between men’s and women’s brains and how their thought processes differ. * Click through to the site if you cannot see the video
Prologue I had been out of town on business for a week. Friday I started seeing signs of sickness; mainly the fact that I was trying desperately not to cough one of my lungs out. I flew out of Minneapolis around 5:30 PM on Friday, February 29 and should have been arriving at my home …