Merry Christmas!
Category: Personal
He is found in human fashion

Merry Christmas!
Craft and calling
For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make. (Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, “Farewell to Lórien”)
Who is proud when the heavens are humble
Our family caroled with friends at a local nursing home this past weekend.
Merry Christmas!
Cardboard programmer
God rest ye merry
Our family caroled with some friends in downtown Fuquay last night.
Merry Christmas!
Walk for Life 2016
Last year my son Asher and I ran Hand Of Hope Pregnancy Resource Center’s 5k race as part of their annual Walk for Life. This year my daughters Ivy and Charlotte are excited to join us in the race. Would you join us in support of Hand of Hope? Please consider sponsoring us, running together with us, or even just coming out on May 1 to cheer us on!
Merry Christmas!
Multiplication tables
For some time now, we’ve been using the BigBrainz math game to help the kids practice their addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts.
I’m very impressed with the game. The little bit of artificial stress that is added when your math fact is crucial to defeating a “boss” seems to really help reinforce their memorization compared to flash cards!
Asher has made enormous progress in just the last week on his multiplication tables with daily BigBrainz practice. If you’re looking for a simple and fun way to reinforce multiplication tables and other math facts for your children, I highly recommend BigBrainz.
Minecraft
At Christmas the kids caught the Minecraft bug from their cousins. They pooled their birthday and chore money and bought it. They’ve been enjoying tinkering around with it, together with the help of some books we reserved at the library. Today I installed Ubuntu on the old Windows XP laptop, and voila! We have a dedicated Minecraft computer now.