Subtraction

So the other day, #2 was doing a math worksheet for fun (yeah, for fun! I wonder where he gets it)! He asked me, “Hey Daddy, what’s 6 minus 5?” I asked him,
“If you had six candies, and then I took five of them away, how many would you have left?”
“Six?”
“No, six is what you [...]

Leapin’ Lizards! Fun Facts about Puerto Rico

We got back over a week ago now, so I wanted to just jot down a number of curious oddities I learned there.
Unlike the pedestrian alligator lizards we see around here in San Diego, Puerto Rican lizards can jump surprising distances, over a foot from plant to plant, or from ground to wall.  We also [...]

Family Tidbits

A while back, Mrs. Rad rightly complained that my blog doesn’t have any family stuff anymore, just theological fighting.  Since then, even that has mostly migrated to the Outhouse — I suppose one could thus say that this blog’s gone to the crapper! So for a while I am going to try to refocus this blog [...]

Dream-Car Raffle

Would you pay $25 for a Mercedes C300?  How about a BMW 128i convertible?  Audi A4?  Honda Odyssey?  Or perhaps $25,000 cash money?  These are the options for the grand prize winner of the “Catch a Ride with Cambridge” Dream-Car Raffle.  Tickets are $25 each, or $100 for 5.  In addition to the grand prize, [...]

I’m Callin’ It

T-bird tells me that my blog has too much theological fighting, and not enough family news.  So here’s where we’re at:
#3 is huge.  At 42 inches and 38 pounds, he’s off the 3-year-old chizzart!  He’s almost as big as 5-year-old #2 (who’s not exactly a midget).  And he loves to sing.  Joy To the World [...]

Catechism Walks

These past (final) three days of Christmas vacation (for me from work, and the boys from school), I’ve walked up and down the mountain near our house with #1 — an enterprise which takes about an hour and a half.  The first time, we just chatted about erosion and why the sun is in the [...]

Catechism

What is a covenant?
An agreement between two or more persons.
What covenant did Daddy make with the family?
The Covenant of Disneyland.

A Tale of Two Tales

…two Tales about Jesus, that is.
For those involved in homeschooling (especially of the “classical” variety), antique educational materials have a certain cachet — a certain stamp of authority. It is with such an expectation that I approached Charles Dickens’ The Life of Our Lord: Written for His Children During the Years 1846 to 1849. [...]

Happy Thanksgiving

For your enjoyment, this is what happens when a dinosaur eats too much turkey (too many turkeys?)…

Children by the Numbers

Because Southern California is on fire, and my work was in an evacuated area, I was able to stay home an extra three days this week. Since all activities (church, soccer) were also canceled, and we couldn’t really go anywhere (our neighborhood seemed like almost the only area of the city that wasn’t in [...]