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May 2013

May 28, 2013

the laundry: that great dark cloud of despair

I really ought to be downstairs doing laundry...I feel like that line should be set...

May 14, 2013

i’m the mother

I'm still basking in the glow of Mother's Day. Matt bought me this gorgeous cup...

May 01, 2013

{phfr}:gasp

In a last ditch effort to save my children from the "indifferent" education I've always...

April 2013

April 26, 2013

7 quick takes

oneI started waking up half an hour earlier this week in the effort to have...

April 24, 2013

i’m so very umble

Here is the audio from my talk at IV way back whenever that was all...

April 22, 2013

weekend haze

Yesterday was the Queen's birthday so Elphine made an Italian Apple Cake again. She had...

April 19, 2013

7 quick takes, maybe

oneI'm sitting in front of the computer watching a live stream of local Boston news...

April 10, 2013

very very busy etc.

I'm studiously avoiding writing here because I'm supposed to be speaking at InterVarsity this Friday...

April 03, 2013

he lives, we seem to still be living

It is April, as some of you might have noticed, and I am sitting in...

March 2013

March 24, 2013

a week to think about Jesus and get really really tired

Holy Week is upon us! Yesterday we celebrated the Last Supper together in Sunday School....

March 13, 2013

emerging

Slowly.Slowly emerging.We had some lovely visitors. Stand Firm Family, as it were. All the lovely...

March 02, 2013

hope

Yesterday the remains of last summer's sun flowers in my back garden were pecked over...

February 2013

February 25, 2013

more complaining about the weather

Can't believe it's nearly March. Can't believe how unrelentingly grey and cold it is outside....

February 20, 2013

early adventures in sourdough

Being rather a creature of habit it takes an act of God, or the valiant...

February 12, 2013

it appears that marigold was trying to blog

UribrdroororrwyefuuuuiàaQgp,tn,oUh f. .,vbHby4 m m.And now she is mad at me because I made her...

February 08, 2013

a holy lent

I wrote this for the church this week and thought it pass it on to...

January 2013

January 31, 2013

winter, the season of my discontent

The wind is howling in a bitter, raging way and I am huddled next to...

January 28, 2013

work, it won’t save you

As usual for a Monday morning there are kids crashing around and screaming. We aren't...

January 21, 2013

confining my remarks to the weather

Looking at the weather forecast, I'm appalled to see that it's going to be really...

January 20, 2013

a meager triumph

We're all watching football, most of us dubiously, or at least with a deep abiding...

January 11, 2013

seven quick takes

oneWoke up in this last hour worried about my parent's cat who was horribly injured...

January 06, 2013

in it for the long haul

I'm letting the children sleep in the living room tonight. So sue me. Its still...

December 2012

December 22, 2012

the first decade

Am sitting here holding a couple of kids who feel better but who are pokey...

December 20, 2012

a cord that ought not be broken

Very very grateful to have finally received the grace and mercy of The Post Office...

December 03, 2012

a week in review

Took a week off blogging to have rather an unpleasant cold, and also, it was...

November 2012

November 23, 2012

thanksgiving week part three: blow your nose and be grateful

Everyone has a cold. Well, not everyone, only enough people that it feels like it...

November 19, 2012

thanksgiving week part one: the DOG has landed

Matt's parents are here for Thanksgiving (So Exciting!) and they have brought with them their...

November 15, 2012

{phfr}

{pretty}Part of the kitchen is clean. Isn't that a marvel.{happy}Finally getting the rest of the...

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...