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Brian

Ducks made some tape for me.

Lydia

Christmas Letter 2020

Brian, Melissa, Lydia, Amber, Penny

My dog name ideas:

  • Rufiage
  • Jingle Llama
  • Featherpot
Lydia

Laughing at the ridiculous "Year With No Santa Claus" while playing Power Grid

Melissa

Christmas Eve: watching "It's A Wonderful Life" with the girls (their first time), looking at lights projector on ceiling while lying on mattress, eating chocolate, and opening the Mom Koser's gift

Melissa

Wrapping presents for Ruth with the girls

Melissa

Lydia lost her keychain at Publix, I prayed, and God immediately answered.

Melissa
№ 134 Wheel of Time: The Big White Book

We continue the Wheel of Time series with Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono on The Sci-Fi Christian podcast, discussing "The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time", aka "The Big White Book".

Having an impromptu romp with all three girls on the mattress after dinner. Tickles, pillow fights, horsey rides, and wrestling.❤️

Melissa

My TV shows:

  • Carrot Seed, Carrot Seed
  • Puppy Troll
  • Poodle Snack
  • Kitty Curl
  • Teddy the Bear
Lydia

You're the least of my worries.

Melissa

Lydia taking her first shower by herself, and enjoying it immensely. "I love you, Mommy." Dancing to music afterwards.

Melissa

Holland Farm with the family. The corn pit; striding through the corn maze with Lydia and Ruth; the picnic by the car; sending Lydia and Amber on the zipline, each by herself; rolling through the big pipe with the girls giggling and trying to stay upright; the picnic at Bucee's.

Melissa

Melissa: I mocked it at first, but I've come to accept it.

Brian: Hey, that kind of describes our marriage!

Melissa

Melissa: It's Friday night, what do you want to do?

Brian: Curl up with a sexy...book. But not Facebook. Facebook's a hussy.

Melissa

Folding the church laundry with Lydia. She helped because she wanted to.

Melissa

Singing "Do You Want to Be a Bullfrog?" as a family at the dinner table (to the tune of "Do You Want To Build a Snowman?")

Melissa

My band: Wee Wee Wonky Bomb

Lydia
Harding’s Pompous Phrases
His [President Warren G. Harding's] speeches left the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea; sometimes these meandering words would actually capture a straggling thought and bear it triumphantly as a prisoner in their midst, until it died of servitude and overwork.
— William McAdoo
Brian

In the animated movie Hercules, I wonder why Disney used the Greek name for the ruler of the underworld, Hades, and not his Latin name, Pluto?

Brian

Melissa: Ooo, I know what I'll do for your funeral! I'll release a balloon to represent your soul rising to Heaven, and it'll be teal because that was your favorite color--

Brian: No, don't do that.

Melissa: But as we celebrate your life--

Brian: Celebrate me now, not at my funeral! I want you to be sad when I die; I was a cool guy!

Melissa

Melissa: If I wear that, people will think I'm gay.

Brian: They won't think that with a hunk like me walking beside you!

Melissa

At the Hutt house, playing with Amber and keeping Lydia company while she used the restroom.

Melissa

Melissa: He's got a sexy, smoldering look.

Brian: Yep, that's what you want in a doctor.

Melissa
№ 131 Cereals: Revisited

The first cereals episode is justifiably a classic, but this time we're doing it right. Lots of research went into this one, but don't worry; there are still a lot of incorrect choices.

The girls dressed in princess dresses, sweetly singing happy birthday to me while I lay in bed ❤️

Melissa

Brian doing a ridiculously energetic and hilarious dance to "Wiggle Through the Night", a song on the girls' microphone

Melissa