23.10.07

Travel

I have decided that I would like to visit Iceland and preferably before I turn 50. I have been looking around on an Iceland site and am impressed with the scenery. So that is one reason, the beautiful scenery. I think another reason is because it sounds exotic and the last reason would be because they have a cool looking written language.




Eleni sent me an invite to a place called Stumbleupon. It is a site that compiles cool websites. The cool factor is decided by other users and the sites are separated into different catagories. What I really like is the tool bar you can download for Firefox. When you have downloaded the toolbar a little button appears at the top of you browser that says "Stumble". If you press it a random site comes up for your exploration. You are able to list preferences as far as what type of sites you want to come up. For instance I have science, biology, art, design, shopping, kids, education, etc....coolness.




Newsflash...parenting at times can be very difficult. Take for instance Sunday. Jolene had four major breakdowns. One of course had to be at church for all to see. Part of it was due to lack of sleep but most due to her sinful nature. I was very sad about all of it. It is very hard to discipline a child over and over and over during the course of one day. I just want to say "don't you get it? If you do this you get into trouble!!!!". Of course Jolene knows that certain actions have certain consequences but she just chooses to ignore. Thus leading us and other parents to pray for heart changes within our children. Sunday night I prayed a lot. I have to say Monday and today have been much better.



Adele has four teeth now. She has realized that now she can explore the entire house due to her ability to move four appendages at the correct times to propel herself forwards and backwards. No real words yet but I'm sure we are not too far away.



We are going to start looking for a new car. Our family car is dying. We drove it to McKinnon (1 1/2 hours) and the radiator consumed over 8 liters of liquid. For those of you who do not know cars this is not healthy. Also we drove to Josh and Sarah's one night and heard clanking sounds as we headed down the road. We pulled over and rolling right behind the car was part of a pulley system. Nice. Not only is our car a drunkard for water but it is also trying to lose weight by randomly throwing off metal pieces here and there.
So we are looking for a wagon, black-graphite-or red, lowered, with rims, must have duel fuel system, and a back seat. We have decided that the lowered part with rims although aesthetically pleasing should not be mandatory.


Random picture of the girls

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

i like the random picture. and we will pray for your car search. i'm sure you will get the right car!

Anonymous said...

I like stumbleupon but I don't get how to download the cool toolbar. email me with the directions...thanks.