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The Metal Mouth Brigade: Kautz Klan Edition.

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Recently, there have been some changes in the ranking of certain members of the Kautz Clan. Now, there are not only the ranks of "Little", "Mid", (or "Bigs") and "Parental Unit", but if you happen to have been to the orthodontist recently, you may also be eligible for the revered title "Metal Mouth". The Metal Mouth Brigade has three divisions in our household so far, and each division specializes in a different branch of cake hole conundrum: Greta Adrielle Kautz Codename: OG MetalMouth The first member of the Metal Mouth Brigade Equipped with: Spacer Soon to be modified to include: Jaw Expander Eliza Claire Kautz Codename: TrainTracks The obligatorily second member of the Metal Mouth Brigade Equipped with: Braces Soon to be upgraded to version 2 featuring: Tongue Crib Henry John Kautz Codename: He has no code name. No nickname. CERTAINLY NOT BraceFace The third member of the Metal Mouth Brigade Equ...

Counting in Arabic

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That's "welcome" in Arabic! It's pronounced "marhaba". Isn't it gorgeous? My family and I have recently been learning Arabic, and we've just started to move on to the numbers after we finished all the letters. I decided to write a blog post on writing numbers in Arabic because I personally love this language and I wanted to share a bit with you. Bear with me as I run you through this latest crash course, and perhaps I'll learn you a thing or two. Right, first off there are some things you should know before I jump into the numbers. Arabic numerals are written left to right, contrary to the way the words are written. (Right to left) Second off: The decimal point in Arabic is a comma, so to my knowledge, there is no way to distinguish hundreds from thousands, thousands from millions, etc except by counting digits. Zero:  This is a tricky one because it looks just like the decimal point in English, and is even written near the botto...

The Lord Speaks, and I am Listening

Hello Family and Friends (and future self and lovely wife and kids)!  Thought I would record some things the Lord has impressed upon me thus far so that I remember them, like the rock pile alters Israel left all over the Middle East when they were waiting on the promised land.  These are in no particular order, just as the Lord brings them to mind as I write. 1 - That Jesus does not need the pasty white middle age guy from the United States to build His church.  I always knew this intellectually and theologically, however now I am learning this by experience.  I suspect that we all have an unspoken "arrogance" about our own cultural  traditions and understanding that we do not fully realize is there, and it is good to have God yank it out of us so we can know He is building the church, and we all collectively are His laborers.  This is a good thing. 2 - Pastor Janke from our US church stated in a sermon that we know who Christians are because "they have...