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Baptism (in video)
Here’s the video of Alleke’s baptism. Also, I have a video of our promises to Alleke, and the song my sister and I sang to her afterwards.
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Baptism
IMG_3983a Photo by openg. Alleke will be baptized on Sunday. April and I hadn’t talked much about what baptism meant to us as a family until Friday when we were in the car on the way to church to talk to the pastor. We only had a few minutes to talk, but that’s all we [...]
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"Come on in," my sister said at the front door.
April and I stepped inside, me swinging the car seat by my side. We climbed the steps to the living room. Alleke was under one of her blankets in the car seat shrieking like a balloon losing air. I set the car seat down and pulled off the blanket. For a moment she was quiet, [...]
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Handbook to Bad Parenting
I’m all about bad parenting books—because most of the time after reading something utopian, something very goody-two-shoe like The Baby Book, I feel like the best thing April and I could do as parents is the moment the baby is born, bundle her up in swaddling clothes, and hand her off to the nuns at [...]
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Happy Birthday Dad!
My dad turned 56 yesterday. Happy Birthday Dad! Unfortunately I didn’t buy him a gift. Since I live in Spain, and he lives in the U.S., there was no chance of running to the store last minute and pretending I had something for him all along…not that I’ve ever done anything like that before. However, [...]
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Two is Better Than One
I have narrowed down my list of baby names to two. I know what you’re thinking, and no, I’m not going to tell you what they are. You’re just going to have to wait. Besides, if it makes you feel any better, April’s still shopping around. She’s an options girl. But I’ve got my names. [...]
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