http://jim.pintglass.org Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:38:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 Yep, my little 4 year old is now officially a 5 year old. We had a family birthday party last Saturday (complete with some fantastic lasagna that Susan made), and today she had her kid’s birthday party at Pump It Up, which has a bunch of huge inflatable toys ... http://jim.pintglass.org/index.php?p=18 So, I’ve been trying to find time to tell you about a fantastic weekend I had with my daughter a couple weekends ago. Rachel and I went for an overnight trip to Camp Gilead with her preschool. I was not sure how it would turn out - an ... http://jim.pintglass.org/index.php?p=15 It was a busy weekend for the Stenner clan last weekend. When we moved into our house 7 years ago, there were some homemade wood built-in cabinets in the garage that were very non-space-efficient. We had been saying ever since that we wanted to tear those out, and ... http://jim.pintglass.org/index.php?p=14 Susan and I have a hard time getting out of bed - it’s been a struggle for us for quite some time. The past few weeks we have been doing a lot better, because I have added a third alarm clock to the mix - we got one for ... http://jim.pintglass.org/index.php?p=13 OK, well, maybe it’s a bit beyond St Patrick’s Day now, but it sounds better than the Merry Christmas greeting that has been staring at me on this page for so long. Geez, I’ve been neglecting this thing. The truth is, I’ve been on a 3 month mountain sheep hunting ... http://jim.pintglass.org/index.php?p=11 We’ve had a good Christmas break. Susan, Rachel and I drove over to my parent’s house in Richland (eastern Washington) on Thursday. My Grandparents came over on Friday afternoon, and we all had dinner and went to an early Christmas Eve candlelight service, and then exchanged gifts with ... http://jim.pintglass.org/index.php?p=10 My Dad was in town yesterday for business, and he came over and we went out to dinner last night. I hadn’t told Rachel that he was going to be here, because he wasn’t sure if he was going to be able to come see us or not, since ... http://jim.pintglass.org/index.php?p=9 I had the day off work yesterday, so was able to go back to Rachel’s preschool and see what it was like now that all of the kids are in the swing of it (the last time I went was the first day, so it was new for everyone). ... http://jim.pintglass.org/index.php?p=8 Rachel started preschool last Thursday. She is going to the Redmond Coop Preschool. She goes Thursday and Friday mornings, and Susan goes with her on Thursdays as a parent-teacher (each child has a parent there as a parent-teacher one of the two days each week, so there is ... http://jim.pintglass.org/index.php?p=7 Hey, what do you know! Brandon’s alive and kicking. http://jim.pintglass.org/index.php?p=6