SQJ Taipei

We have made a special effort to make sure Joshua and Zach both see the “soft-spot” on the baby’s head… we figure that if we don’t mention anything and they “find” it they might be very curious and inspect it (read: poke it. HARD) on their own.
Anyway… last night I overheard Zach talking to MRS [...]

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We got to spend an unexpected 30-45 minutes with our kids the other night…
First thing… we are all OK.
We were awakened by a strong earthquake at 3:06AM on the morning of March 6th.
MRS SQJ grabbed the baby… and we made our way to the kids’ rooms. I was shaken to the ground on the way… [...]

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That’s what the thermometer in our living room displayed tonight.
NOT FARENHEIT… 9 degrees Celsius is less than 50F though…
That’s pretty cold for the warmest room in the house… but…
I don’t care at all how cold it is……. WHY??????
NO RAIN! ALL DAY! WHOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOO!
We even went to the park while the sun was out for a [...]

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On our website… the MRS and I are answering some questions about ourselves and I always dread those “What is your favorite…” kind of questions because it is hard for me to settle on a favorite of almost anything!
So… the question was… What is your favorite scripture? Ummm… can I say “all of ‘em”? no? [...]

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Now that we have 4 children… I guess we have crossed a line of sorts… a line in the mind that makes people want to ask, “Don’t you know how that (pregnancy) happens?”
Most people in Taiwan have 2 children… usually a boy and a girl.
Most of our peers in Taiwan have more than 5 brothers [...]

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I just want to draw your attention to the crickets chirping in the comments section on all but the very first post in this blog.
I don’t expect this to be the busiest place on the net… but I want to make sure you know you can comment… and encourage you to do so because it [...]

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There’s a saying about March:
It comes in like a lion… and out like a lamb.
That was true for March in Bellevue, Nebraska…
and if “like a lion” means “no stop to the bazillion days of rain we had in February and as if it wasn’t cold enough already, we are going even lower”… well… then maybe [...]

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