The Reynolds Family is 1 man trying to live with 4 beautiful girls who insist dolls are more fun than dirt.
// August 24th, 2007 // No Comments » // Community, Cooking, Environment, Family, Learning, Outdoors, Personal, Relationships, Travel
“What is RAGBRAI” is a question worth answering. I will be riding it at the end of next July. Wikipedia says one thing and the RAGBRAI web site says another, but let me give you my version.
// August 24th, 2007 // 3 Comments » // Community, Personal, Relationships, Travel
5 days and counting until the movers come to load our stuff and we make the five day journey with kids to south Florida. Friends are helping with babysitting while we pack, and we are saying our goodbyes through tears of sadness and joy. People have been so kind to share their love for us in our departing. I am convinced we are night dieing yet, but things will never be the same for sure.
We are almost packed … almost. What is difficult about this move is that everything has to be in boxes. Not like moving across town where you just throw some stuff in the back of the car on the last trip. Everything but the bikes, the appliances, one-off items, and the furniture has to be in boxes. This packing is real work I tell ya. More updates soon as we head in that direction.
// July 6th, 2007 // 1 Comment » // Christianity, Family, Family Values, Parenting, Relationships, Writing
As we wait on our family values list to be created by interested participants, we thought we would kick things off with the family value “obedience“. Obedience is an important value because it deals with a child’s’ physical safety and their understanding of God. There are times when the consequences of disobedience are not just inconvenient, but deadly. Sin is death, yes, but so can be an untimely sprint across the parking lot.
// July 5th, 2007 // 4 Comments » // Christianity, Community, Family, Family Values, Leadership, Parenting, Personal, Relationships, Writing
With our recent time in the hospital came some moments of down-time that really made me wonder what I value. In fact, not only what I value, but what we as a family value. Ashley and I had spent much time considering the question and verbalizing to one another what we believe and what we want to instill in our children. But are we getting through to the little ones with our family values? Are we taking every opportunity to model them for our kids?
// June 24th, 2007 // No Comments » // Community, Family, Health, Parenting, Personal, Relationships
First of all, thank you for your support and interest in how our 15 month old has been doing since her time in the hospital.
We have had 3 doctor visits since we were released, and Sydney is doing well on a day to day basis. Her upper airway has been inspected three times, and all is well there. The inflammation seen below the trachea seems to have lessened to some degree. The ear nose and throat doctor charged us a week and a half ago to “keep her in a bubble” until we could figure out what is going on.
