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September 2011

September 12, 2011

Roast Chicken, Candy, other stuff

Various teams of Good Shepherdians are out mucking out peoples houses this afternoon. Actually, they've...

September 08, 2011

The Rain was Raining all Around

And now the river is rising and rising. Two families came about 1am to spend...

September 06, 2011

A Spot of Learning

To celebrate the first day of school, we're all sleeping past 7. And then we're...

September 02, 2011

7 Quick Takes: Home Again Home Again….

OneSo I thought I would be really selfless and hold the baby all night to...

August 2011

August 27, 2011

Some Pictures

Marigold's new favorite thing is to remove her diaper. Trying to put off potty training...

August 25, 2011

We’re still very busy

but now we're not just sitting we're running around doing stuff because we only have...

August 17, 2011

We’re busy doing nothing

August 12, 2011

Three Men in a Boat, plus six children and a lady

We went fishing today in the ocean. Well, it was a lagoon attached the ocean....

August 11, 2011

Online At Last

Trying not to binge on the internet after being offline since we arrived in Corpus...

August 01, 2011

We’re very very busy and we’ve got a lot to do

Wow, its pouring rain. And so dark I've had to turn on a lamp.Anyway, I...

July 2011

July 28, 2011

Its going to be Perfect

Laundry, so so so much laundryand actually finishing the office and printing out my paperwork...

July 26, 2011

Another Birthday

Romulus turns five today.I've got to roust myself and go make him 'hot cereal' (Cream...

July 18, 2011

Oh Dear

I appear to have invented a breadish sort of thing that is so delicious I'm...

July 18, 2011

More Monday Rain

Of what shall I blog? It being almost 10 in the morning and rain clouds...

July 14, 2011

A Proper Holiday

We're going to Texas in August.So we should probably plan to go to Moscow in...

July 12, 2011

Happy Birthday Tomorrow

My oldest child turns nine tomorrow. It's sort of crept up on me. The last...

July 11, 2011

Our Busy Morning

This morning as I was vaguely waking from a crummy night of trying not to...

July 08, 2011

A Woman’s, and probably a Man’s, Work is Never Done

Putting off the two giant remaining tasks of the week--sorting through a vast pile of...

July 07, 2011

Birth Story Haikus

I don't actually have time to write any (maybe later) but what A BRILLIANT Idea.I...

June 2011

June 29, 2011

Brazilian Boiled Pork

So you take a huge, practically obscene, piece of meat, pork, that you bought at...

June 22, 2011

You know what might be fun?

Dismantling a table, nailing the top to our kitchen island/butcher block, painting the top red, picking...

June 21, 2011

Three is too much

I just went to Wegmans with the three little girls. Matt had to take Elpine...

June 20, 2011

Impossibly Pleasant

Some really lovely people in the church stopped by and gave us this furniture last...

June 18, 2011

Inroads

Every upswing in energy and growth in the church seems to be met with a...

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...

May 2011

May 19, 2011

Not dead yet

Was just sitting here thinking, "I wonder what I could blog about if I had...

April 2011

April 30, 2011

Easter

This has long been a favorite hymn of mine.Of course I'm sure you all heard...

April 27, 2011

Sermon from the Vigil

I preached at the Easter Vigil as I usually do. Well, 'preach' is kind of...

April 26, 2011

Happy Easter

We have a funeral this morning and a completely filthy house plus a huge pile...