Spaghetti and Dominion with the Johnsons

Milly didn’t throw up at all today, so that was good. Milly typed her name today.  I noticed that on one of her videos that they spell out some words, and Milly was repeating the letters.  She was sitting in my lap later, so I pointed out and said the letters of her name.  She […]

Duke Beats Their Last Beater

Maryland was the last team to beat Duke, but they’re now also the last team Duke beat.  The Blue Devils took down Maryland in a hard-fought game to the tune of 71-64.  The first half was offensively ugly (and the offense was bad, too- haha), but Tyler Thornton of all people, the most unheralded freshman […]

Duke and UAB

Duke took on UAB tonight and won it, 85-64.  Kyle Singler joined the 2,000 Points Scored Club at Duke and Nolan Smith had a career high game with 33 points.  Ryan Kelly and Mason Plumlee both played particularly well as well.  It was a well-played game, and UAB is no cupcake.  They were 10-2 coming […]

Undecorated

After church, Amanda, Milly and I went to Atlanta Bread, as is our custom.  Milly was in a pretty good mood, so we decided to walk over to Barnes & Noble so she could look at some books and play with the trains.  She was really cute on the way over, saying, “Ready, set go!” […]

The First Day of 2011

I saw on Facebook this morning that Karen Mercer, my mother-in-law, has decided to give up drinking her Diet Mountain Dews.  Inspired by that, I impulsively decided to give up sodas again.  I don’t drink them much now, but I do at times and I figured it can’t hurt anything. I actually went several years […]