Childlife
- Location: United States
About Me
This blog is really about our kids, Jacqui and Kyle: Jacqui is a wonderfully energetic and opinionated five-year-old. She was born with a rare birth defect known as a lymphatic malformation (LM) and has been through a lot in her young life. She had a trach until she was a year old, had surgery in New York to remove her LM with world renowned surgeon, Dr. Milton Waner (at age three), and still has a G-tube. She is a bright sunny soul in spite of everything. Kyle is a thoughtful, and slightly reserved 1-year-old with a magical giggle and a wise-looking smile. He is clever and charming and a bundle of pure joy. Our goal as parents: To treasure every moment and to raise our children to be extraordinary individuals. Welcome to an inside view of our world!
Well, maybe they don't need them, but don't you think that some fish might like a bicycle?
Hmmmm... Sounds more like a question for Theo LeSieg... Flann O'Brien would doubtless have had an opinion on the matter as well, but like as not, it would be rather unintelligible.
Interests
- Playing with my children
- writing
- reading
- scrap-booking
- hiking. And silence. Silence is particularly interesting to me since it is such a rarity at this address.
Favorite Movies
- The Grass is Greener
- Life is Beautiful
- Bringing up Baby
- Holiday (Katherine Hepburn)
- North by Northwest
- Anne of Green Gables
- Sense and Sensibility
- The Great Race
- The Court Jester
- Jane Eyre (Timothy Dalton)
- Pride and Prejudice (Colin Firth)
- An Ideal Husband
- The Importance of Being Ernest
- Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
- Singing in the Rain
Favorite Music
- Classical
- Baroque Era Classical
- Mendelssohn
- Corelli
- Brahms
- Mozart
- Contemporary Christian
- Ginny Owens
- Switchfoot
- Mercy Me
- Cademon's Call
- Christine Dente
- Michelle Tumes
- Chris Rice
- Go Fish
- Barlow Girls
- SuperChick
- Jazz
- Louie Armstrong
- Eva Cassidy
- Classic Beatles
Favorite Books
- Mostly classic English lit: Anne Radcliffe's works
- Jane Austin's works
- Emily and Charlotte Bronte's works
- Charlotte Smith
- Maria Edgeworth
- Early Wilkie Collins (particularly The Woman in White and The Moonstone... There seems to be a directly opposite correlation between my interest in his writings and the length of his association with Dickens
- of whom I have never felt inclined to admire a work in entirety)
- Shakespeare
- Tennyson. Other Favorite Authors: Barrie
- Gene Stratton Porter
- LM Montgomery
- Lewis Carol
- AA Milne
- Kjelgaard
- Laurie King's Mary Russel Series
- Margaret Mitchell
- Wharton
- JRR Tolkien
- CS Lewis Robin Paige's Victorian Mystery Series
- Grace Livingston Hill
- Oswald Chambers
- Lloyd Douglas
- George MacDonald
- Hannah Hurnard
- Dee Henderson
- Terri Blackstock
- Ted Dekker
- Frank Peretti
- The Lahaye/Jenkins Left Behind Series
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