The leaves on the hill outside my window are changing already. I have it in my mind that the fall colors always peak on October 10th. This is the arbitrary and unscientific date that I have fixed upon, probably because for the first four years of marriage I was pretty sure that Matt’s birthday was the 10th, not the 7th. Last year the leaves didn’t peak on the 10th. Every year I worry, as indeed this year, that it won’t... Read more
Used to go to Mt. Savior for Compline every now and then. The service is less than half and hour and the drive was about 50 minutes, but worth every moment. Have been singing this hymn with the kids for a few months now, before bed. Read more
Matt’s gone and snapped his Achilles tendon, as you all probably noticed from facebook (why is that always our First Instinct now? I don’t really want an answer to that question). Looks like he’ll be having surgery in short order. And, because these sorts of things change everything, I’ll be dragging myself out of bed without tea in the morning, and also celebrating for the first time in this church. Never occurred to me to bother before, too busy holding babies or... Read more
Some of you around the country have already started school, or so it appears from facebook and twitter. Not so with me. Official school starts exactly two weeks from today. TWO WEEKS! Actually, I just read this post and now feel like I’m just whining. What are we doing for school? you ask. Well, various things. A group of families, as I mentioned on this blog months ago, have been meeting together to start a Classical School in the Binghamton... Read more
One The four oldest children have gone for the whole day to be with T and K, our old neighbors. K is going to college on Sunday and we are all desperately sad. How did this happen? How will we all live without her? They are all going to have a long fat laden day of swimming and junk food probably. Two And I, hmmm, what am I going to do for a whole day without any children? Well, I... Read more
Matt says I shouldn’t blog about my awesomely clean house because it sounds prideful. He is a smidgen right. I can feel myself pitching off the cliff of humility into the pit of puffed pride. However, we’re celebrating the triumph of a whole month of a deeply clean and orderly house this week and so I’m sorry, I Have to blog about it. Plus, Jeanne asked how we get the kids to pick up their piles and piles and piles... Read more
Matt has been preaching on prayer the last few weeks, and this sermon was a real highlight. I highly recommend it if you have time, or even if you don’t. Read more
I used to write long old fashioned letters by hand. Of course, when I first went to boarding school, at age 11, there was required letter home writing time. I vaguely remember this being Sunday, probably during interminable rest hour, certainly always the moment my Sunday headache set in. But in High School there was no time set aside and one wrote if one wanted to. I spent my free library times pouring out endless volumes of words, writing to... Read more
After three months of our lovely car being at the car doctor, we Finally have it back which means we all get to go grocery shopping together this morning! Matt has done all our shopping this summer and is good at it, though frugal. But I have missed terribly wandering the aisles of Wegmans, coffee in hand, 3 children in the Play Place, feeling fakely normal with one child in my cart while I buy bulk spices, different colored lentils, gorgeous vegetables... Read more
meand Matt, since we got married nine years ago today. It wasn’t a Wednesday, though. It was the inevitable Saturday, but not the evening. We got married at 10am in the morning which was already way too long to wait for such an occasion. I was ready to walk down the aisle at about 7:30 and had to sit around the whole morning watching my bridesmaids fuss over their hair and hideous pink sparkly dresses. One of the more satisfying moments... Read more
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