I’m snatching a moment while Matt is away from his computer to give a dinky update on our trip so far. We left yesterday AMAZINGLY, at 10:00am on the dot (I called it-Matt insisted that we would leave at 9, but I know us better than that). The car is packed to stuffed, as you can imagine. Its so much more complicated, packing for three people that have opinions about what they take, rather than just one. I let Emma… Read more

It is my custom, at this point in pregnancy, to do as little as possible during services on Sunday Morning. I teach Sunday School, shmooze during Coffee Hour, do various jobs in the office, run up and down the stairs lots of times (Those Who Don’t Think With Their Heads, Run With Their Feet), and a myriad of other odd jobs. So by the time the last service comes round, I position myself grandly in the rocking chair next to… Read more

Just wanted Again, to say a huge thank you to all of you who are continuing to comment. I figured out how to have comments directly to my email, and so I’ve been able to read what you all have been saying, even though I’ve been too wildy busy to really get on and blog. Yesterday Matt married a young couple who, though very much taken with each other, were not particularly organized. Heh. I ended up stuffing myself into… Read more

Took baby round for his Well Baby this evening. (Some lovely commenter asked if Baby is a he or she-he’s very much a he, a shouting vigourous he.) Have a very interesting pediatrician. He’s Russian Orthodox with a long Orthodox beard and a lot of Orthodox children (6, plus one on the way-due at the same time I am). And very pious. Its a pleasure to take the children to see him, because he glances at them, pokes and prods… Read more

I’m supposed to be running around getting bulletins started and cleaning the bedrooms and calling various people (given that I have a few minutes of all the children going off in various directions doing fun things with other people) but I did just want to link to this article–very interesting and insightful, given all the discussion that’s gone on in recent days about children, and the church, and the clergy. Hope you enjoy.If I’m very good and manage to get… Read more

Baby just will not take steps for me. He’s taken steps in the church nursery, in the other room for Matt when I was just around the corner out of view, and for other various people. But when he sees me, he sits down and refuses to take steps. Even tried the old stand by-Matt holding cookie and moving back to keep baby walking. THIS baby won’t walk for a cookie. This baby becomes utterly frantic for cookie and screams… Read more

Many of you have noticed, perhaps, that it has been a whole week since I posted in this space, and that I have been uniformly silent on other various comment threads (although I will be perfectly honest, I have been unhappily hitting ‘refresh’ over and over on a number of sites, wanting, and Not wanting to see what people are saying). This silence has, for the most part, been self imposed. I’ve never had anything like this happen to me… Read more

The sun is beginning to set in a haze of heat. All five of us have been holed up in our bedroom, next to the air conditioner, reading all this mess online, catching up on email, the children playing with blocks and games and dressing up and eating Popsicles in an effort to stave off the heat. After a crazy week and a long Sunday, its been nice to have our feet up and have some quiet time, if not… Read more

Having said I was going to blog all day, I’m actually going to step back and not post anything for a while until I’ve had time to think and pray, both for myself and for Ms. Kaeton. I have half a post written about feminism, and some other bits I was working on, but its all going on the back shelf until things have cooled down. Thank you all for your prayers and comments and kind words. This is a… Read more

Sunday ConversationsMatt: So what did you learn in Sunday school?Aedan: We learned that the man had a stick and he hit the people with the stick, like this (demonstrates).Matt: Stick? What stick was that?Aedan: The man, he had a stick.Emma: Pharaoh. Aedan: Yeah. (Waves his hand) Let my people go.Matt: Oh, so Pharaoh had a stick, and he hit the people?Emma: Yeah, and then Jesus came and made frogs and locusts and a river of blood.Anne: Jesus did that?Emma: Yeah,… Read more