It’s almost 9am and I am struggling to give a squirmy toddler turned little boy a haircut as he sits in the bathtub. The cinnamon buns rise in the the pan in the kitchen and the husband newly returned from another business trip let’s me know the the oven dinged […]
Read MoreMonth: February 2012
Little trashes the dress + an adventure
We went out to the sticks for Lemon Week with Brenda and Bug. See Bug patiently smiling for the photo while my child deliberately makes that face and shovels food in? Yep, that’s her in a nutshell. That was after they came to visit us and we took them on […]
Read MoreThe Simplicity Project – Stop Multi-Tasking
It’s the first day of Lent. Here’s day one of my Lenten Meditation for Children. Parts of this experiment were just one big giant fail. I can’t not multitask. I can’t. I’m a mom and it’s such a habit for me that I just couldn’t remember that I was trying […]
Read MoreGrace wins
She describes the scene to me over the phone and in my minds eye I can see it, the gleeful, almost boyish way he darts forward, envelope in hand, and the church foyer, where they both still attend, decades later, studiously avoiding actually talking or looking at each other. But […]
Read MoreDear Religious Right, you might be doing this wrong
Dear Santorum and Co. et. al, I know. It was supposed to be about religious freedom, about the right to conscientious objection and the laws of this country. It was supposed to be about preserving, or establishing, the right of employers who believe that certain issues of a woman’s reproductive […]
Read MoreThe Simplicity Project – Establish a regular bed time
When one is setting out to change old habits and establish a regular bedtime, at a reasonable hour it would be best to first inform one’s spouse of one’s intentions, rather than assume he read your blog post about it. Because if he doesn’t know he is very likely to […]
Read MoreThank-you
A few weeks ago I told the story of some wonderful friends who came to the rescue in ways that were very needed at the time. What I didn’t expect was that that would inspire some more of you to do completely spontaneous and generous things that are bringing me […]
Read MoreOn not feeding boogeymen
So this guy named John Piper caused some brouhaha in certain circles I travel on the internet. You see, he was quoted as addressing a room full of male pastors and saying that “God has given Christianity a masculine feel”. This of course offended a lot of Christian women, and […]
Read MorePretty, Happy, Funny, Real – The LMLD meetup
Pretty The place Rosie blowing bubbles to keep the kids entertained. Everyone that came, really. Lovely women. Happy Little drawing in the dirt with a stick. Bam Bam doing whatever it is that he is doing here. Pippo finds a stick. Funny doesn’t he look like he’s making a break […]
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