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April 2020

April 12, 2020

Nothing Was Ever The Same Again

It isn’t even the early dawn. The sun has been up for a while and...

October 2019

October 31, 2019

Gosh, I Hate Halloween

There’s a big storm brewing that will make the business of collecting a lot of...

October 18, 2019

7 Let’s Stay Home Takes

Look! It’s Friday! One My children have developed a pretty fabulous game where they either...

May 2017

May 26, 2017

7 Pleading Takes

As a chastisement for comparing the Holy Spirit to Mark Hamill, which wasn't very nice,...

November 2016

November 05, 2016

Autumn Notes on Home and Daylight Savings

I have got to plant out some bulbs today, even though it's probably late. I've...

August 2016

August 01, 2016

Lunacy and Failure: I Fly into the Week

Shocked and saddened to see that some people out there, in this great YUGE country,...

March 2015

March 26, 2015

Unworthy Servants

Ah, the gentle sound of children screaming at each other over breakfast. Every day I...

October 2014

October 13, 2014

A Battle Victorious

There, posted the lost post of last week. Now on to this week. Which includes...

June 2014

June 16, 2014

Weekend in Review

I'm in The Usual Monday Morning Fog. My mind is clouded with a stupid haze...

June 10, 2014

Rhubarb and Flowers

I love the gray and the green together, reminding me so much of Oregon as...

April 2014

April 30, 2014

Wordy Wednesday: Frozen

I have a lot of stuff to do today and laying around here choosing words...

April 04, 2014

Seven Quick Takes

OneClassrooms are built and almost completely painted. Actually, they probably are painted. I left church...

March 2014

March 28, 2014

And So The Long Day Wore On

I woke up during the night to the sound of rain and a child crying...

March 07, 2014

Ashes to Ashes: Death and Dogs and Children and Jesus

Ash Wednesday is always complicated. Matt and I both love church, you know, but we...

November 2013

November 08, 2013

7 quick takes

oneMy mother is working on the making of fancy pancakes (crepes) for breakfast with the...

March 2013

March 06, 2013

sometimes they sort of get it

Gladys wrote another poem this morning. She was irritating me a lot just at that...

February 2013

February 10, 2013

the poem of god

We watched The Prince of Egypt recently in our usual lackadaisical weekly watching of A...

November 2012

November 13, 2012

Alouicious has discovered Calvin and Hobbes. He keeps coming and showing me the gross snowmen...

November 08, 2012

praying with children

Its so important to pray with children, just like it is to do other hard...

September 2012

September 05, 2012

the season

Sitting here with a profound cold in the head trying to watch the Democratic Convention....

July 2012

July 31, 2012

in praise of mediocrity

We're having a week "off" watching the Olympics and squabbling with each other. For my...

April 2012

April 23, 2012

weekend in review

Phew. What a weekend.Matt talked to the Mormons on Saturday evening. I desperately cleaned the...

January 2012

January 27, 2012

a week of eating or something

MondayChild: "Wha's for breakfast?"Matt: "Toast. Make yourself some toast."Child, incredulously: e"Really. I can make toast?"Matt:...

December 2011

December 05, 2011

In conversation with children

Romulus gagging and trying to get through his dinner.You know this black stuff on top...

December 01, 2011

overheard this morning

I'm trying to avoid reality by not getting out of bed, but everybody is up...

November 2011

November 07, 2011

whistling

Alouicious has learned to whistle.Its really the most irritating skill I can think of, in...

November 04, 2011

7 Quick Takes–School Stuff

OneWe're on track to finish Alice in Wonderland today. We've spent ages talking through all...

July 2011

July 10, 2011

In conversation with children

Elphine: You were born in England? Did you see the queen?Me: NoElphine: Why not?Me: I'm...

June 2011

June 14, 2011

I might as well be Santa

My first answer to nearly everything my children ask me is always a full throat-ed and enthusiastic...

June 06, 2011

a Weekend in Conversation

Gladys, snuggled deeply and comfortably in my lap: "I hate that song."Me laughing hysterically: "Hate...