¶ 10/05/2006 02:27:00 PM 0 comments

  ATTENTION...SITE ADDRESS HAS CHANGED... Dear Readers,

This site is being discontinued. All of my blogging from now on will be at the new site, "Dumplings, Three". You can click on the name of it here (the colored link) and you will be taken there, or if you prefer to manually type it into your browser, the address is:

ThreeDumplings.blogspot.com

I hope to see you there!

(This site will remain (as sort of an archive) so that my older 500 or so posts will not be lost as I could not transfer them to beta at this time, but nothing new will be posted here from this time forward.)

~Monica
October 5th, 20006  ¶ 10/05/2006 05:45:00 AM 0 comments

  Just Overheard... Darcy is sitting here at the table next to me working on her computer. Grant is here at the table doing bills. Rayna and Doug are downstairs watching a DVD. The basement door is ajar and the sound of their two voices are clearly floating up to us. A rhinocerous just made an appearance on their DVD. Doug exclaimed excitedly, "A DINOSAUR!!!!", to which Rayna scornfully replied, "That is NOT a 'DINOSAUR', Doug. It's a NOSTRIL!"

Rayna is always so EMPHATIC. I am sure that poor Doug is now trying to log in his memory that that impressive horned creature is called a "NOSTRIL", not a dinosaur. Yes, Rayna is ever vigilant for opportunities to set Doug straight and expand his education! With her help, he is sure to be speaking fluent English any day now!  ¶ 10/03/2006 04:27:00 PM 0 comments

  Aaron Hospitalized My nephew, Aaron, was in a serious accident while driving back to school in Rolla from a visit to his grandparents in Kansas City, last night. The accident occurred five minutes from Raleigh. It was a one car accident. His car rolled. Aaron was life-flighted to University Hospital in Columbia. He has three broken ribs, a fracture of his thoracic spine and multiple abrasions and lacerations. He lost a day and cannot remember the accident or being flown to the hospital...but, when the doctor was assessing him and asked him to count backwards from 100 by sevens, he was able to spit them out in lightening speed, leaving the doctor open mouthed as he himself quickly tried to do the mental math to see if Aaron knew what he was saying. Obviously, that doctor didn't know much about our Aaron (the Pi Guy, himself)!...Aaron could be unconscious and still able to calculate math problems faster than a computer!

Aaron is able to move all extremities and still do math at the speed of light. He was to be fitted with an upper body brace today and they are thinking at this point that he will be able to get by without surgery. We all would appreciate your prayers as Aaron heals. (Jan and Eric drove up from Texas during the night and Mom and Dad C (along with Grant) went up last night.)  ¶ 10/02/2006 07:17:00 PM 1 comments