Archive | May, 2009

John ~ 31 May 2009 ~ 19 Comments

and the name of the baby is…

and the name of the baby is…

…it’s not like we’re just going to tell you. But I have built for the followers of our blog a little puzzle, which I’m confident that you will enjoy solving—if you’re the sort that enjoys solving puzzles, that is. The image below is pretty much incomprehensibly small, so I would recommend that you click on [...]

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Abby ~ 27 May 2009 ~ 5 Comments

return to the Ro

return to the Ro

On Saturday, May 16, we served dinner with some volunteers from our church at the Ronald McDonald House on Kuhl St. That’s the “Ro McDoh” where John and I lived for four and a half months while James was in Winnie Palmer Hospital. We hope to do this dinner every year in honor of James’s [...]

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Abby ~ 17 May 2009 ~ 16 Comments

hopes and prayers

hopes and prayers

Number Three is known around the Throne. I’m not just talking about the fact that “[his] frame was not hidden from You when [he] was made in the secret place” (Psalm 139:15). Beyond His own intimate knowledge, God has appointed certain people to commit to pray daily for #3, and I don’t mean just people [...]

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John ~ 12 May 2009 ~ 2 Comments

oops

I inadvertantly removed the theme folder from the server, so House of Gjertsen has been down for the past hour or so. Hopefully when I get home I find that there’s a backup of the comic book theme we were using. Otherwise, we’re going to be coming up with something completely different. Stay tuned!

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Abby ~ 09 May 2009 ~ 11 Comments

appointment

(Written April 13 and languishing unedited until now) We hadn’t been back since we lost the last one. “Lie down. This gel should be warm.” Do you know our history? our morbid list of problems? High-risk, our permanent label. We have more pressing questions than whether to repaint the nursery blue or pink. Suddenly a [...]

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