It’s a Boy!

So apparently he is a turtle and not a hamburger!  That picture is really hard to make out, but I’m sure you can guess what’s there.  We are going to have another little boy.  I’m really excited about it, boys are sweet and I’m really happy that Deacon will have a brother so close in [...]

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“Say Dah Doo”

So, contrary to Deacon proclaiming himself as a “Big Boy” a couple of weeks ago, he has reverted back to being my baby. He has spent most of yesterday and today curled up in my arms trying to get over a little virus. I feel so bad for him–he has never been more [...]

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“Just doing my duty, ma’am”: On being a cafeteria vigilante

Today was one of the first days when all kinds of students were on the USC campus, myself included. My favorite place to get food on campus is in the student center cafe, where some usually very nice ladies make you a gigantic and vegetably-diverse salad for 3 and a half bucks. Naturally, [...]

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Deacon’s new look

So, when I was out practicing with my new piano player, Lenora, Andy decided to chop off all of Deacon’s beautiful hair!  I told him that he had to wait until Deacon was 2 before he could cut off that beautiful baby hair, but he didn’t listen.  I’ve been holding back tears since he cut [...]

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Ellie last Friday night

Here is Ellie performing Friday at Cafe Strudel in West Columbia

Here is a somewhat feisty Deacon (and his Papa) looking on from something of a distance.
photos by Lenora Morrow

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Andrew Peterson shares his House Concert experience

This was a nice post to read on one of my favorite Singer/songwriter’s blog. It is about a house concert that he recently played. This is something that I’m beginning to look into – after Andy’s strong encouragement. I hope that my experiences with House Concerts are as edifying as his was. [...]

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Unexperienced Unrequited Love songs

This week I started writing my first unrequited love song. Yes, there are millions out there, but none by me. I guess I just never had the personal experience to really inspire me to write such a song. But I was listening to a lot of Jonatha Brooke one night and this [...]

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Two thoughts…

1) Have you ever picked up a banana and begun to peel it, and then realized that you were almost automatically switching hands in order to peel it more “naturally”? This morning I caught myself doing this. I must have just happened to grab the banana with the left hand, and so [...]

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We finally uploaded our pics and videos onto our computer

Well, with all the traveling and such we haven’t taken the time to drop our pictures on the computer, but we finally did today. We have such fun pictures from the past month including 2 trips to Nashville and a trip to the beach. I ‘ve uploaded about 25 pictures onto our flickr [...]

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