I really miss blogging.really really reallyBut also, I’m really really tiredjust a little more tired every dayand a little more hungryand a little rounderand a little more out of breath. I tried to read aloud two paragraphs of A Christmas Carol in class and found myself completely out of breath. On a completely unrelated subject, Prince William is finally going to marry that lovely girl!!! Listened to the BBC giggling on about it all the way to school this morning.... Read more
“Look Mommy!!!” shouted Gladys leaning over and smearing her grubby mits all over this picture, “There’s you and me!!!! That’s me and you. That’s me (pointing) and that’s you (pointing)!” This announcement comes as a great great surprise to me. I don’t see myself this way At All. I’m actually wearing a foul pair of gray trousers and and a dowdy gray sweater and my hair is not up in a pretty bun but sort of flat and, well, flat.... Read more
So, what is it like to get out the door every morning by 7:30 with five children dressed, fed, shod and in a reasonable frame of mind? (Well, skip the ‘reasonable frame of mind’, that’s non essential). Maybe you aren’t asking yourself this question, having other more important things to do, but I’ve sort of been wondering how we manage to do it, morning after morning, and how it is that I’m still standing on two feet. It is crazy.I’m... Read more
Yesterday was Guy Fawkes Day, I think. It would have been great to light a big bonfire in the parking lot but it was rainy and windy. I think the last time I really celebrated Guy Fawkes Day I wasn’t very old and I’m pretty sure I had a stiff neck and was whining about the cold. Anyway, Elphine and I are having lunch out today. She kept her shoes on in school (basically) for a month and so earned... Read more
Matt: Get in the car everyone! We’re going to vote.Gladys: Why are we getting in a boat?Matt: We’re going to vvvote, not get in a boat.Gladys, deeply disappointed: I’m too old to vote.Elphine: You’re not too old to vote.Alouicious: I don’t know how to vote.Matt: Don’t worry, when the time comes, I’ll tell you Exactly How. Now we’re hustling the children into bed so we can glue ourselves to the computer in preparation for a long cozy frustrated evening. Election... Read more
The children are super hyped up from sugar, still, even though we really tried to limit it today. Matt took all their Halloween candy and lined them all up and said, “let’s talk politics. This is your candy, right?” They all nodded. “well, I’m going to take all your candy and combine it in this big bag together. This is called Redistribution of Candy. Every day you can have some if you’re good, but every day I’m going to take... Read more
Matt got a walking boot on Thursday. As we left the doctor’s office I said to myself, “our long national nightmare is over” (didn’t Ford say that about Nixon? I don’t remember, I’m pretty sure I wasn’t born yet). That night he (Matt, not Gerald Ford) made me a large mug of ovaltine and took a pile of laundry out of my hands to carry upstairs. And this morning he brought me tea in bed for the first time since... Read more
The chapel at our seminary burned down today.http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local-beat/Historic-Chapel-Burns-in-Alexandria-105570648.htmlIt was a really beautiful old building.Many many prayers for the VTS community! Read more
So I finally read The Hobbit. I know, I’m late to the party. And I didn’t read it of my own free will. It was the only book I could get enough copies of in time for the start of classes in September and so I had to just bite the bullet and do it. So there it is. Apparently the next step is to face The Lord of the Rings. There’s probably no way around it. Its just that... Read more
Me: “Do you want chocolate cake, or apple?” Gladys: “I DON’T WANT CHOCOLATE! I want black.” Me: “What? Oh man. I don’t even know what you’re talking about.” Read more
Preventing Grace
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