The baby is quietly waddling around the house undoing things–taking all the bottles out of the bottle basket, all the gray square mats out of the workout corner, all the toilet paper off the roll, all the clothes out of the laundry basket, all the kitchen towels out of the drawer, all the parts of the kitchen aid out of the cupboard, all the low lying ornaments off the tree. Yes, we still have the Christmas tree up. I hate... Read more
Matt’s sermon was so helpful to me this week. I thought I’d share it with you. Read more
Matt appears to have the flu or something horrible which is in direct conflict with the baby who loves him SO MUCH that she wants to bounce up and down on his stomach and pinch him and be the center of his life. I am delightedly watching the ice fall from the sky and humming songs of gratitude for a day off from school. I am exactly one day away from being totally on top of my laundry–including new baby... Read more
I’ve succumbed to some kind of nasty cold and can’t talk very well, for which I’m pretty sure all the children are delighted. Some of them keep coming and sitting very close to me and gazing rapturously into my fog filled running eyes. I don’t know what they have to be insecure about. Just because we had something every night this week and haven’t in any fashion carried on with our normal routine–honestly. Actually, without forethought, we came to the... Read more
There is something deeply mesmerizing about listening to the list of school closings on the radio. Even looking at the list online or watching the local news doesn’t produce that deep sense of peace as our local NPR guy’s strange lispy vaguely southern voice of soothing calm. I’ve listened to the recitation a total of 5 times this morning and have not been disappointed or bored by it once. Sadly, the hour is nine and everyone pretty well knows who’s... Read more
We’re going to have to buck up and take the children into the snow today. I’ve been putting it off all weekend due to the fact that I HATE snow and being cold. I dislike it so much I don’t even think its pretty. My ideal winter, of course, would be the hot hot dry dry north wind blowing sand everywhere and everything getting chapped in the dryness but so cold at night that you can put on a sweater... Read more
Really miss blogging. However, just tried to perch the computer on my tummy only to find it slide off and hit the floor heavily. Am now trying to lean over and type so that it won’t fall but am too enormous to really reach the keyboard. Not really sleeping any more out of anxiety that we are Not Ready For This Baby!!! The house isn’t clean. I don’t have any baby clothes out and washed. We haven’t even moved the... Read more
Don’t you hate it when people just change the picture/blog look without actually posting? Yeah me too. Have a great day! Read more
One Clearly from the whining alone, its time for this lovely Christmas break to be over and for us to go back to school next week.Gladys: But Moooommmmmmyyyyyy, I wanted to pick out my own shirt. But Mooooooommmmmyyyyy, Romulus is hurting my feelings. Etc. Etc. Two The lone exception to all the whining is the baby who is so good natured, cheerful and funny we are having an increasingly hard time understanding how she came to be in our family. However, I’m... Read more
Matt tells me today is the Feast of the Holy Innocents. I had to preach on this day a few years ago while being pregnant (but not this pregnant) and I must say it was really a rough experience. On the whole, in the days since Christmas, since I didn’t have any time to think before, and am now feeling the full effects of pushing through the week of Christmas on adrenalin, I’ve been thinking on and off about Mary.... Read more
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