He’s Here!

                When our second son was born at home our oldest son Joshua who was 18 months old at the time was asleep in his room and “missed out” on all the excitement. Eventually we woke him up and brought him in to see his baby Brother Malachi. “Joshua, wake up – he’s here! Come meet your little brother!”                 […]

Smash that cycle start button!

When in school earlier this year, the first few months were all book learning – math and terminologies, etc. Finally though, it was time to head out to the shop and fire up the machines. We studied lathes first and we were all fairly timid and apprehensive to actually run the machines, afraid we would “crash” and potentially break a […]

Except the LORD build the house…

“A Song of degrees for Solomon. Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.  Psalm 127:1 20 years ago the Lord gave me the desires of my heart, an helpmeet as beautiful on the inside as she is on the outside – and […]

“Spare me some change, sir?”

Supposedly, it was the ancient philosopher Heraclitus who said “The only thing constant in life is change” – and boy was he right! This year has been a year of change for me and my family, and while I have no intention of attempting to make a full listing of all the changes thus far let me just say – […]