Monday, November 21, 2011

Elizabeth is 16!


Today is Elizabeth's 16th birthday! On Saturday, she celebrated with some of her friends. She also received 16 roses from her dad.


Around the table with her friends eating a 3 foot (1 meter) long Subway sandwich.


Opening presents, with Peter at her side.


Just about to blow out the candles on her cake.











Elizabeth is 16

Monday, October 10, 2011

Liberate Yourself from E-Slavery

Tune Out and Turn Off

Do something radical.... Check your e-mail only once or twice a day, and
• do not check it at home. Wait a few days before answering an e-mail. Use formal salutations and closings when writing e-mails.
• Do not send an e-mail when the matter can be discussed face to face. Write letters instead of sending e-mail.
• Do not use e-mail for thank-you notes. Set your home free from broadband Internet access.
• Do not answer the phone after 8 p.m.... Throw your television in the street.

Fill the space and quiet you have created with things that never grow old.... Read and shop for good books. Read books aloud to your children and to your spouse.
• Learn calligraphy or how to draw.
• Learn the guitar and some folk songs.
• Learn “The Ballad of John Henry,” about the man who died in a heroic contest with a machine.

If you must go online ... use your real name. Anything else is a deception. Look things up online on Tuesdays and Thursdays only. Before dialing up the Internet recite a prayer consecrating your time online to God. Make every Friday a “techfast”:
• no Internet,
• no cell phones,
• no e-mail, etc.

Read poetry. Memorize poetry. Write poetry. Writing a poem is an incarnational act, even if it’s done badly. “If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly,” wrote Chesterton. Even a partial attempt to unplug from the matrix will bring us
• closer to the people in our lives,
• closer to our history and traditions, and
• closer to our God.

-- Christopher Check

Saturday, March 05, 2011

Peter's birthday

Peter had 7 kids at his 7th birthday party:
Peter (of course!)
Sarah Green
Daiken Bell
Sashenka Gudkov
Jaan Gudkov
Tina Churchill
Mark Churchill

Mama & Daddy were happy to have 7 "big kids" at the party:
Chris ("Bubbie") Clark & his fiancee Jenny Stumpfel
Elizabeth ("Sissie") Clark
Vicky Green
Melodi Bell
Auntie Mary-Kay & Uncle Sasha Gudkov

Peter's 7th Birthday


We had Peter's 7th birthday party at the Maine Discovery Museum. He had cake, Red Socks ice cream, presents and, best of all, his friends. Everyone had a great time at the party, and exploring the museum afterward.

Peter's birthday cake. We had to put a battery powered candle on the cake because the museum wouldn't allow real candles.

Peter opens a birthday card while Sasha looks on.

Peter and his best friend Daiken pretend to ride a Vespa at the Children's Museum.

During the party, Peter's guests got to record two songs on a video for him to take home. They sang the Happy Birthday song and the ABC Song.

Saturday, January 01, 2011

LOL :-D

"celebrations we like to hold on Twelfth Night, the eve of Epiphany, when the last of the Christmas presents are opened, games are played, and the decorations come down from the tree. (I know many Americans think of Christmas as a single day and like to clear away the trappings of the season well before the fifth of January, but that is sheer barbarism, if you ask me, morally only a few steps removed from human sacrifice, cannibalism, or golf.)"

http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2010/12/new-yearrsquos-titanic-gods

Friday, June 04, 2010

goodness (personal theme for the month of June)

Exodus 33:19
And the LORD said, "I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the LORD, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

2 Chronicles 6:41b
May your priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, may your saints rejoice in your goodness.

Nehemiah 9:25b
They ate to the full and were well-nourished; they reveled in your great goodness.

Nehemiah 9:35a
they were in their kingdom, enjoying your great goodness to them in the spacious and fertile land you gave them

Psalm 23:6
Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.

Psalm 27:13
I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

Psalm 31:19
How great is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you, which you bestow in the sight of men on those who take refuge in you.

Psalm 69:16
Answer me, O LORD, out of the goodness of your love; in your great mercy turn to me.

Psalm 86:17
Give me a sign of your goodness, that my enemies may see it and be put to shame, for you, O LORD, have helped me and comforted me.

Psalm 109:21
But you, O Sovereign LORD, deal well with me for your name's sake; out of the goodness of your love, deliver me.

Psalm 116:12
How can I repay the LORD for all his goodness to me?

Psalm 142:7
Set me free from my prison, that I may praise your name. Then the righteous will gather about me because of your goodness to me.

Psalm 145:7
They will celebrate your abundant goodness and joyfully sing of your righteousness.

Romans 15:14
I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, complete in knowledge and competent to instruct one another.

Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Ephesians 5:9
for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth

Hebrews 6:5
who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age,

2 Peter 1:3
His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.

2 Peter 1:5
For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge;

Taylor Boucher -- my cousin's daughter (more like my niece)!

Casco Bay High School teacher Scott Shibles hugs Taylor Boucher during the procession of graduates Wednesday at Merrill Auditorium in Portland.

http://www.pressherald.com/news/expeditionary-learning-has-43-seniors-set-to-go-places_2010-06-03.html

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

our new address

effective 12 July 2010

9 Jennifer Ln.
Bangor ME 04401

Friday, May 14, 2010

Guess where we're moving!

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