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This is becoming (again) a regularly-occurring blog post, so I decided to add the above image to help set it off when it does appear. I will try to post these on Saturdays, but last week got a little out of hand and I had to wait until today to post my YouTube likes.

I have received some feedback that these posts are helpful and fun. I can’t imagine how many YouTube videos I see in a given week, but when I “like” them, they will often fall into these weekly blog posts. If you’ve benefited even slightly from this or previous “YouTube likes” posts, would you take a second to let me know? Or better yet, share this post (it’s pretty simple to share using the buttons at the bottom of this post). Thanks!

Here we go:

10 Parenting Hacks, the first one is worth the price of admission alone:

The history (‘etymology’ for you fancy-word people) of the word “okay”.

How water gets recycled on the International Space Station (yes, what you think they do with body fluids actually does happen):

A very capable toddler telling her Daddy to “worry about yourself“:

Street-musician playing a “hang drum” (I already searched for a DIY tutorial on building my own – seems it’s MUCH more difficult than you’d imagine):

The future of in-home gaming and entertainment is IllumiRoom:

In-Car-technology is getting better and better, but this is just incredible to think about – headlights that ‘erase’ rain drops:

Finally, here’s why you don’t win at Carnival games:

mattressWe recently bought bunk beds for Ezra’s room. The available mattress at K-Mart was little more than a couple-thicknesses of carpet padding. It was disgusting. We priced mattresses in town and out of town and also on Amazon.com.

Yes, Amazon. Crazy! We bought one after reading several positive reviews and when it arrived we were blown away at its quality and comfort! Just this week we bought a second-one for the top-bunk of the bunk beds!

This time I had Jess shoot a video of me opening the vacuum-sealed mattress because it is SO COOL!

I got home just after 9 tonight – about an hour after the kids are normally in bed. I still ran upstairs before even taking off my shoes and quickly ran into Ella’s room to kiss her already-sound-asleep forehead as I promised her I would when they came to visit me earlier this afternoon at the church office. She didn’t stir even a little bit – something she’s known for in our family. I pulled her covers back up to snug her into her remain hours of sleep and quietly tip-toed out of her room.

Then I went into Ezra’s room. Mr. “Light Sleeper” as we sometimes refer to him, was out cold. He’s been sleeping much better these last few weeks since we upgraded him to a big-boy bed (the bottom bunk of a set of bunk beds and a comfy twin mattress). As I crouched down to fit myself over him to kiss him without smashing my head into the top-bunk I was just over his face when he did his signature scare-me-to-death move and opened his eyes wide just as I was leaning in to kiss his forehead. I almost passed out.

He focused for about a half-second before acknowledging that it was me as he said, “Hi Daddy!”, and quickly unwrapped his arms from their covered-state and put them around my neck and asked, “Will you pray with me, Daddy?” to which I obliged without hesitation. When I said “Amen” he rolled back over and was out again before I could get out of the room I’m sure.

I still can’t believe God has entrusted these two incredible children to the likes of me! (Their mother is MUCH more capable!) I am SO grateful for the privilege of being their daddy!

Ezra was on a counting-kick the other day when I made this video:

prA terrific, almost 5-minute interview with Duck Dynasty family patriarch, Phil Robertson with Alex Crain of Christianity.com. In this interview he’s promoting his new book (that I’ve pre-ordered, and you should too!), “Happy, Happy, Happy“. It’s still available for pre-order on Amazon at a great price and releases on May 7th.

“The piece of mind you get when you come to Jesus – Happy, Happy, Happy.” – Phil Robertson

I look forward to reading this book and hope to review it here afterward. Anyone else have it pre-ordered?

Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson: “Happy, Happy, Happy” from christianitydotcom on GodTube.

A vertical-launch AND vertical-landing of a space-vehicle? Too cool:

STOOPIDTALL bicycle:

A CGI masterpiece – baby guitar player:

How special are you? Or at least, how special are your physical traits?

Extremely awesome Watermelon-cutting: