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Our family recently travelled to Buck Lake to stay in a mansion for a couple of nights. With these travel restrictions I think we’re all going a little nutty and missing the natural change of scenery we are accustomed to and it’s adding unnecessary pressure on our lives that is quite risky for family, marriage, and mental health. We needed to get away where we didn’t have … Continue reading Buck Lake!
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The day has finally arrived that every parent dreams of: our oldest daughter is leaving the house. From the moment she arrived we couldn’t help but think “This is amazing, but hopefully we’ll get our lives back soon?”Scene missing…Three more daughters, and some horrible parenting adventures later, we are ready to get rid of her. “Arwen, you’ve been a great addition to this family, but it’s … Continue reading Arwen is Out
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So I walked into the holiday trailer in Montana one summer where Erin and the girls were watching the newer Annie. I’d been wandering around the campsite doing something useful (I’m sure) only to enter the trailer and see my wife with tears running down her face. There should be an app for that. WARNING. STAY AWAY OR YOU’LL GET BLAMED FOR WHATEVER IS MAKING HER CRY! I don’t … Continue reading Hard Knock Life
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Ever meet someone you can’t tell anything to? I met Bob on a job site when I was in my twenties. I’d worked for a particular electrical company as a third year then moved because work kept drying up. A year later I returned as a favour for a month because I had a good relationship with the owner and my new company had a lull … Continue reading What About Bob
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Erin often leaves her phone ringer on which drives me crazy because her ring tones aren’t great and go on forever and I have to hear them. I tried to help her by clean-editing a version of Without Me by Eminem to notify her when I called as a romantic surprise years ago, which was especially hilarious when she was at the Telus Spark during orientation … Continue reading Phone Fumble
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I have a zippo because they’re cool and I’m cool. I’m particularly cool because I have a Ducati zippo to commemorate my love for my Ducati(s). This morning I yelled across the house to my firstborn “ARWEN!! WHAT SHOULD I WRITE ABOUT??”She came into my home office where I was sitting in my worn captain’s chair recently relocated from the living room, sat down at my desk … Continue reading My Ducati Zippo
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I’m doing a series at Venue called Rebound which is largely about how to rebound financially from this disaster we find ourselves in and my thoughts turn to one of the best decisions my wife and I ever made, which was to go through Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University. Oh my goodness what where we could have been at right now if we’d have done it … Continue reading Goodbudget App
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I miss Mexico. I miss when I could get on a plane and go places that were fun. I miss when I used to be able to hang out with whomever I wanted to and decide for myself if I wanted to get sick and stuff:) But I mostly miss Mexico. Erin and I try to get away at least once a year with no kids because … Continue reading Mexico, Oh Mexico
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Men are so great. I know I have to push past society’s deal where we’re not allowed to celebrate men because of the infamous deeds of some, and no one would bring a backlash if I’d titled this Women are Great except my wife who would be like “womEn or womAn???” (and rightly so). We live in the society of the underdog with undercurrents of fairness and … Continue reading Highly Evolved
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Gallup recently released a poll about the fall of mental health in America from 2019 to 2020. The survey across the States that spanned nineteen demographics from age to ethnicity to income to political persuasion to married status was a shocking, but not unexpected revelation of the state of mental health. What was a surprise to many was that there was only one group of people rating … Continue reading Prince of Peace
