Preventing Grace
This is just Too Fabulous to pass up. I was thinking quietly about hymns I intend you all to sing at my funeral but am completely distracted by this baby. Read more
This is just Too Fabulous to pass up. I was thinking quietly about hymns I intend you all to sing at my funeral but am completely distracted by this baby. Read more
Prayer of Alouicious Dear Jesus thank you for this day please be with Mommy and Daddy and everybody else please help the new baby to be nice and not bite like Gladys and please help everybody in the world to have a good time and do good things. Amen. Read more
Elphine’s cat is staring me down for a saucer of milk.Romulus is looking pale and complaining of a stomach ache.Alouicious is still sleeping.Gladys is wearing layers of other people’s clothes and shouting.And I am calculating up all the things I need to do today and trying to organize them into some kind of order. For instance, I have another Dr.’s appointment and ultrasound. And I need to go to the post office. And today is the last day to go... Read more
We’re all camped out on my bed today doing school and ignoring everything else. I’m not feeling particularly steady on my feet. In fact, every time I stand up I feel like I’m going to whamp over. So, we’re going to settle in here and pound home the new memory work, do some tedious reading and math, and maybe read a little history or something. Maybe later I’ll drag my deck chair in the back and we’ll do our work... Read more
Its chilly this morning and I can’t convince Gladys and Romulus to go play elsewhere. They are rolling around my bed letting cold air in. Boy I’m glad we’re all still in bed while the rest of the world scrambles towards the first day of school, or maybe that’s tomorrow. Nothing wrong with school. Its just that we all stayed up till 9pm eating cake and talking politics so its really nice to sleep in. The kiddos really want to... Read more
I seriously overdid it yesterday and ended up in a rocking chair, at the end of the dining room table, grimacing and closing my eyes every few seconds while everyone else ate supper and asked repeatedly, ‘what’s wrong, Mommy?’ ‘I didn’t drink enough’ I said over and over, chewing on ice cubes, ‘and now the baby thinks it should be born right now.’ ‘Ew’ said Alouicious. I never can get used to this last stage of pregnancy. After this many... Read more
This is very strange.Even though its not Lent, I’ve been hankering all day to hear this hymn by John Donne.WILT Thou forgive that sin where I begun, Which was my sin, though it were done before? Wilt Thou forgive that sin through which I run, And do run still, though still I do deplore? When Thou hast done, Thou hast not done; For I have more. Wilt Thou forgive that sin which I have won Others to sin, and made... Read more
I’m reading slowly and happily through Romans again. Its finally come round in my New Testament reading circle and I noticed, surprisingly, that I’ve marked it up more than any of the other NT books. This surprises me because growing up, Romans was my least favorite book of the Bible. As my pagan Remedial Bible for English Majors Professor at Cornell said in the week we covered it, ‘This is Paul’s sermon notes, badly written at that and completely incomprehensible.’... Read more
Hee heeeee heeeeFurther chaos reigns in the current administration. The White House revised the plans Wednesday to say students could “write letters to themselves about how they can achieve their short-term and long-term education goals.”“That was inartfully worded, and we corrected it,” Higginbottom said.In the Dallas suburb of Plano, Texas, the 54,000-student school district is not showing the 15- to 20-minute address but will make the video available later. I love the cut and thrust of domestic politics. This has... Read more
We’re memorizing Psalm 139 in the group time of our CC mornings. Here’s the tune we worked on yesterday. Its only half the psalm, and I am NOT an amazing singer, especially since at the top of my blog this morning I read, ‘Your baby is almost 17 inches long and weighs 4 lbs. Only 60 days to go!’ which means that my lung capacity is seriously diminished. The child on my lap is for you to look at while... Read more
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