one We seem to be getting up later and later in the mornings, one because of the cold, and two because we keep not sleeping. Elphine broke the plug on the laptop she hauls into her cubby every night and so we were confronted not with throw up or bad dreams but an inconsolable ten year old who couldn’t go to sleep and who, at 3am clumped down to try to sleep on the couch. Her not sleeping produced not... Read more
This Election Season is going to be the death of me. Here we are at 7:30 just now trying to wake up and grope towards life giving elixir (….tea….coffee…..bottles of milk…..). For the first time in ages Matt and I catastrophically disagreed about the outcome of the debate last night. As far as I can tell he stayed up all night discouraging himself reading NRO et.al. who always believe the worst no matter what. I thought the debate went pretty... Read more
I can’t really type because I stabbed myself yesterday while trying to remove some unnecessary and insane piece of plastic from the handle bars of Glady’s new princess bike. I had to lean over the sink for quite a long time trying not to pass out even while my husband insisted it wasn’t that big of “poke” and why was I pretending to swoon. “I’m pretty sure I stabbed through to my bone, you Horrible Person,” I wept. Now I... Read more
One Gladys overate and threw up at 3am Wednesday going into Thursday. She came down shouting and hysterical, convinced that she was deathly ill. None of us slept for the rest of the night. Discovered that I can no longer be sleep deprived. It just can’t happen. Everyone needs to sleep through the night, no exceptions, not even for being sick. Two As I struggled up to cope with the vomit, I discovered that Elphine has moved all her bedding... Read more
Being in a wise and sagacious frame of mind I thought I would bequeath you all some of my vast experience and knowledge on the subject of Household Management, particularly in the realm of Laundry. I’m sure you’re all sitting fretfully at your computers or on your tablets, or scrolling down your phones and thinking, ‘what on earth am I going to do about my Laundry?’ and wishing that another exasperated MommyBlogger will just post One More Time about this... Read more
Here is a link to the audio. And here is Matt’s really excellent class–Part One. More to follow through the month. Enjoy! Last week, you might remember, Jesus calmed and rebuked a great hurricane of a storm raging over the Sea of Galilee.The day before, Jesus had preached for a whole day,and then the storm was during the night and now, as the night is giving way to day they arrive on the other side of the lake in Gentile... Read more
one I have now gotten the drift, what with being really slow on the technological end of things, that blogger has been acquired by Google and its name will be changing along with lots of other things–like the format and look of everything. I know this is just one more sign of the end of all things, but in the meantime, am feeling anxious about my little blog. Read some random techy blog that said, ‘if you are a serious... Read more
The leaves are really glorious this year. We happened to go out to say goodbye to someone and on the way back up the walk got caught by needing to make a pile of leaves. At first it was only a matter of throwing them up in the air as impressively as possible. Even the baby finally figured it out. Then I made the mistake of trying to get them all to face me. Nobody could seem to get it... Read more
Not that one,this one.Not that it matters, as Matt points out. Someone will eventually have to make a decision.I remember back in the bad old days we used all wait and long for a saving word from Lambeth Palace, we used to sit in bed late at night and parse every turn of the head and eyebrow move and have hope. Ah, the innocence and stupidity of youth. Of course now we know that if someone suitable were picked, God’s... Read more
I’m still mired in Jeremiah and Lamentations as I climb the mountain of Reading The Bible Chronologically–well, not reading, listening when I’m still half asleep in the mornings, or listening while I’m trying to cook which means shouting ‘Will You Be Quiet’ every few seconds. Anyway, where was I, oh yes…I’m particularly struck this time round, and this is the result of blowing through a whole book in a day or two, by the contrast between the dry straight forward... Read more
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