I have three boys. They are all very unique. They all have different personalities. None of them are just like me or just like Emily. Some characteristics are quintessential Emi and others are me.
Daniel is my oldest. He is Mommy's little helper. He does not like to get up in the morning, just like me. He is usually the last one to get up. Like me, he likes CDs, or as he calls the CEs. While I prefer DC Talk and Lincoln Park, He like "If you're happy and you know it" played a thousand times. He likes things organized, just so, just like me. Daniel loves to play with cars. He is very funny. You never know what he's going top say next.
Bobby is the middle kid. He has just learned to walk. He is learning to talk as well. His favorite phrase is "I like." He is our mischievous one. Like Emily, he is up earlier than everyone else. He likes cars like his brother, but his brother tries to regulate which toys he plays with. As a fundie, I'm ashamed to say it, but he's a great dancer. He is the only one in our family that has rhythm.
Tommy is our littlest one. His personality is still developing. He is a big smiler. He has gotten really big, really fast.
When I was growing up, I was an only child. The closest I ever had to siblings was my two cousins. I enjoy watching my kids interact. I enjoy seeing how Bobby looks up to Daniel and Tommy looks up to Bobby. I bet some day they'll read this. I wonder what they'll think.
Dan, I can tell you love your little guys. You say how much you missed having siblings and you regret that you didn't. Your poor boys are going to write in 20 years how they wish they had beds and clean blankets and places to run around. Do you want that to happen? You can change this now and they'll never remember being shoved under a half-painted crib to sleep.
ReplyDeletePlease don't try to take the rhythm out of little Bobby. Who cares if a child likes to dance? Please don't try to break his will.
ReplyDeletewhy are you ashamed of bobby dancing? I'm christian and my husband and U love dancing with each other. It's an expresion of happiness
ReplyDeleteI am thinking the embarrassed of dancing thing was a joke. Am I right, Dan?
ReplyDeleteDavid danced for the Lord ! The father of the Prodigal Son danced for joy when his son returned. Psalm 150:4, We are to praise God with Dancing.
ReplyDeleteHow did your spelling suddenly improve a thousand percent in this post? I am guessing because you didn't write it? Is Emily ever going to allow you to have your own thoughts and opinions? Or is she going to continue to tell you what to think? For God's sake, you aren't even allowed to have a bag of chips and you are a grown man! You obviously did not write this post.
ReplyDeleteYou really need to stand up to your wife and tell her to let you write your own blog posts. Tell her she MUST buy beds and sheets and blankets for your babies. That she needs to CLEAN that pigsty you live in and make it safe for those babies of yours. Tell her you will buy junk food if you want it, and that fermented dirt from under the couch does not count as a snack. And whey "limeade" is not a drink. And buy some soda if you like soda! Why is she telling you, a grown man supporting his family, what he can and cannot have to eat. Did you see where she said in her blog that she hopes you "forget" to ask for snacks and that you usually do forget? Really? Are you three? She is completely insulting your intelligence to thousands of people.
Stand up for yourself. And even more importantly, for the comfort, health and safety of those precious babies. Please!!!!!
What's wrong with dancing? Can someone explain. I love ballet, it is an incredibly art form. What's wrong with dancing - it's common to virtually every single culture on Earth. We are made to dance.
ReplyDeleteEmily stop blogging for Dan and get offline clean your damn house and play with your kids.
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ReplyDeleteGang, in the past Dan has told us that he dictates his posts to Emily who types them. The spelling is clearly Emily's doing in this post, the thoughts are clearly Dan. Unfortunately a babysitter who has spent one hour with these kids could have said the same thing. I'm joining the team that believes Dan has severe learning disabilities. Dan's 20 something and can't put thoughts together for a coherent post. It's sad that his 'college' lets him get away with it.
ReplyDeleteWhere exactly in scripture is dancing forbidden? I consider myself a fundamentalist but I cannot find such a passage.
yes the dancing coment was just a joke!
ReplyDeleteI think the phrase " As a fundie I'm ashamed to say it, he is a great dancer."
ReplyDeleteit sounds like like you don't approve because of your belifes. I think the word ashamed is to harsh for this descrption.
i grew up in a bob jones fundimentilist church where christian rock and dancing were banned. it was a refrence to that. it was ment to be light harted not ment to ofend. penticoatals do dance and many other conservative christians do.
ReplyDeletewe are changing the boys room.
ReplyDeleteHi Dan!
ReplyDeleteI wanted to apologize.
Knowing very little about you I made assumptions about your beliefs. Admittedly they were based on what I read on your wife's blog and various blogs/forums that discuss your wife's blog. I don't understand or agree with the decisions you make for your household (and allow your wife to make on your behalf), however, your blog isn't about your daily life so, out of respect, I won't get into all that.
After reading some of your posts I see that I was wrong. While you and I may disagree on politics and religion (amongst other things) you are more open minded and accepting that I had originally assumed. Certain Christians rub me the wrong way for relying on stereotypes of what make someone "good" or "worthy" and here I am, doing the same thing. I am sorry.
I do agree with others that you don't always express yourselves in the most clear way. For example, I had to read your last post twice to fully understand your point. I get that if Christians stop hating on secular "evil" and focus more on the Joy of Christ they will do a better job of converting others. Honey draws more bees then vinegar and what not, you know? However, your posts are written more like an outline where the points aren't fleshed out. It makes total sense to you because they are your outlines but to others, it's confusing.
According to your wife's blog, you are a gifted preacher, something your writing doesn't reflect. May I suggest a vblog or an audio cast?
Unless as a child, you slept in the vacuum cleaner closet, you need to wake up. Wake the "f" up. Stuffing your 3 boys in a closet is child neglect and abuse. I have no idea how you people can look in the mirror; look at the bed you share and go put 3 children in the closet. Get a futon for the living room. Give the boys your room. Be a parent. Wild concept, but try it.
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ReplyDeleteI have to say, I was shocked to read that the boys live in a 6 x 8 foot room. That's a mere 48 square feet. What happens if one of these boys grows to be 6 feet tall? He would barely fit in the room.
ReplyDeleteI get the whole living simple and living on a tight budget. But you guys are living in dire poverty if you can't house your oldest two children something better than a room that literally amounts to a walk in closet. Your wife worships poverty to the point where she's got herself and you thinking that it's no big deal to house your kids in a closet. Worse, it sounds like your wife has gone nutty and now thinks mattresses are the end of the world and kill children. Is there no counter culture scare web site that she won't believe is 100% true?
What happens when you guys have more children? Are you going to stuff three into the boys 48 square foot room? What happens if you have a girl? Are you going to make her sleep in a room with the boys?
No Shit, Emily is getting a lot of millage off this "closet" situation and a closet is exactly what it is, it is NOT a bedroom by any stretch of the imagination. Where's the closet in the "bedroom" Emily.
ReplyDeleteDan posted that they're going to be changing bedrooms but evidently HE didn't speak with the master first because Emily says "absolutely we're not changing rooms at this time because ...something about her and Dan's weight vs. the childrens weight or some bogas crap she dreamed up. Emily's big idea is to have a contest and see who can come up with the best decorating scheme for a 6x8 closet they call a bedroom. What the hell? This is NOT Rocket Science Emily, Dan, this is called buy your kids a BED and MATTRESS and forgo any other junk in the room because it won't FIT -- bullshit to your blocks and cars staying in the room because really, how can two kids even play in a room that small??
We all get that you're poor Emily and Dan. Really we do. But even poor people have enough sense to buy a bed for their children...or I hope they do. AND to think Emily has delusions of grandur that she can actually raise 12 people in that apartment. Happily.
Educated people don't live like this, sorry. Most people don't CHOOSE to put their children in harms way, sleeping on a mattress without a sheet in the dead of winter, when we all know how toddlers roll around. Little Dan no doubt sleeps on the floor half the night....or at least after he wets his MATTRESS.
I wonder if Dan's "Professors" read Emily's blog. Maybe they can talk some sense in the guy.
I get alternative lifestyles, I get that some people choose to live differently than the norm. I get that when money is tight there are choices to be made, difficult choices. BUT when it comes to MY children, they come first. I'd be damned if my kid slept on a sheet less mattress while I had a soft warm, sheeted bed to sleep on. You and Dan could EASILY get a double box springs and mattress and toss it on the floor of that closet and let the children have your big room with SPACE....you Emily choose not to, Dan just doesn't get it. But you do Emily. It's more than obvious that Dan does what you tell him, Emily.
Keep in mind folks, controversy brings revenue and Emily is certainly looking for revenue these days. Don't kid yourself either, her blog is taking enormous amounts of time, far more time than she's ever going to admit. She'd like you to believe that she blogs about 20 minutes a day. She's lying when she says that. 181 comments is taking more than 20 minutes to READ and those are just the one's she publishing. She isn't doing much cooking these days and those poor kids are cramped up in that "closet" to play in while mommy blogs, washes shitty diapers, cooks, cleans and BLOGS BLOGS BLOGS....
I don't feel a bit sorry for Dan. IF he can't man up and do what is right for his family then shame on him too.
Emily is an arrogant bully.
Dan, I sent a crib mattress (with all organic covering) to you today. It should arrive in 5-10 days. I hope you and Emily accept it in the spirit that it was sent. I really want your children to have real beds but all I could afford was a crib mattress. That way you could get some sheets for Daniel's, Bobby could have his own and Thomas can have the crib. Dan, please remember that there are people out here very much concerned for your children and want to make sure they're well taken care of. It's time your wife did the same thing.
ReplyDeleteAs a woman I never thought I'd say/write this, but Dan, you need to control your wife! I have read her blog, and what she is doing is not right! Take control and insist that your children have a healthy sleeping area and a clean environment in which to live!
ReplyDeleteAs a woman it is not my place to tell you what to do, but I must say as a submissive wife myself I think that Emily is manipulating you. I would never treat my husband with that kind of disrespect. You deserve better.
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