It is Matt’s birthday today. As he is in Tauranga (so we cannot celebrate his birthday with him until he gets home late tonight) our youngest two children, Brittany and Noah, made this present for him to enjoy in the meantime.
Entries Tagged as 'Family'
Re The Pain in my Neck
October 27th, 2009 7 Comments
I have just come from seeing my orthopedic surgeon to get the results of my recent MRI scan (following injuries sustained in a car accident in March 08). He has recommended more surgery. He wants to remove the disc replacement that was done Dec 08 and replace it with a spinal fusion. I am pretty […]
Tags: Car Accident · Disc Replacement Surgery · Spinal Fusion
My Story: Lousy ACC Cover and Thoughts on the Proposed Changes
October 22nd, 2009 68 Comments
Yesterday I applied for and got a one week extension on my research project as I couldn’t keep up with the necessary pace to finish it by Friday – I was getting too sore. This means that open mic week(s) needs to continue a little longer so please bear with us and do submit a […]
Tags: ACC · Car Accident · Disc Replacement Surgery
News, Weather and Sports at MandM
October 10th, 2009 9 Comments
It is that time of the year for those of us engaged in study; deadlines are imminent, exams loom, stress abounds and tunnel vision sets in. For us here are MandM this directly affects 3 members of our family, Matt, Sheridan and myself, all engaged in tertiary study and to a lesser degree, Christian in […]
Tags: Law Studies · Stephen Carter
MandM win M&M’s
September 23rd, 2009 Comments Off on MandM win M&M’s
Over the weekend Matt entered one of those count the number of lollies in the jar competitions and won the competition. So last night he brought home his prize, a jar full of jaffa M&M’s. I couldn’t resist sharing a pic of MandM with the M&M’s especially now that we live in Auckland. They are […]
Tags: M&Ms
Transport Stress UPDATED
August 5th, 2009 3 Comments
The last few days have really been stressful in terms of transport issues. As Matt mentioned on the way to my grandfather’s memorial our family car broke down and was diagnosed with a fairly major condition. Then when I got to the memorial late I was loaned my grandfather’s car which I then had to […]
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Tribute to Mark Richards: Poet, Writer, Teacher, Sailor, Musician and My Grandfather
August 2nd, 2009 Comments Off on Tribute to Mark Richards: Poet, Writer, Teacher, Sailor, Musician and My Grandfather
On the ferry to Waiheke Island yesterday as I watched all the Hauraki Gulf’s islands pass me by I remembered the hours I had spent on those waters as a child on my Grandfather Mark’s boat. I told my children as they too looked out the ferry window that I had been on that beach, […]
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A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
