Tonight Carolyn and I had an old-fashioned teenager-style boardwalk date.  For the first time in our married lives, we hit the arcades on the boardwalk in Ocean City.  It was fun!  We played skee ball, which was the best part.  Carolyn played one of those games where you move the claw which grabs some random Continue reading

Carolyn and I have officially gone Netflix. In case you’re not familiar with Netflix, it’s an online movie rental company. They have different monthly plans and you can order DVDs by mail. They come pretty quickly, and a postage paid envelope is included to send them back. You keep a queue full of your movie Continue reading

The wind chill right now is 18 degrees.  It’s supposed to get down to 13 in a few hours.  I like cold days, but wow…. Funny how on the Shore it always seems like clear skies when it gets this cold. Continue reading

MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE!!!! I’ll be back to blogging soon…. Continue reading

Hahaha, check out this post by Pastor Darren Plummer! Continue reading

Over Christmas break I’m hoping to take some time to work on this blog.  Many things will stay the same, but I’m planning to really overhaul it.  The web address will be the same and I’ll keep many of the same links in the sidebar.  But it will have a new look (a new template), Continue reading

Today was the last day of school before Christmas break for some of the kids at the Training Station. It was so cute seeing all these kids so excited about Christmas, partying with their classes and exchanges gifts and cards. As she was leaving, one little two-year-old girl kept saying very slowly, carefully, and clearly: Continue reading

Carolyn was gone for a couple days this week at a conference near Baltimore for kindergarten teachers.  When she got back I was looking through some of the materials she picked up while she was there.  There was one page that really jumped out at me.  It was about how children learn, but it read Continue reading

Today will be a different kind of day.  At 7:00 I’m going to the mayor’s prayer breakfast in Ocean City.  (I don’t know whether or not this actually has anything to do with the mayor.  One year in Berlin we forgot to invite the mayor to the mayor’s prayer breakfast!  Someone called him a couple Continue reading

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!!! And go Cowboys! Continue reading