A couple Mondays ago was my mom’s day off and since I was still sick from the week before, I decided to take the kids over in the afternoon for their naps so I could have a nice bath (in their big, red bathtub) in peace.
As I was laying there in the candlelight, surrounded by [...]
Camera pans to close-up of Napoleon Dynamite staring down. He is looking at a pile of laundry. He slowly says, “The defect in this laundry is… there are too many pairs of girls pants.”
(Yes. In five days my daughter has gone through 14 pairs of pants. The peeing and the pooing in the underwear must stop!!! I’ve [...]
It is 9:41 and I’m up and dressed. The kids have been changed, dressed, fed, bathed and then dressed again. Marc (and the whole family) was treated to a full-course breakfast of eggs, toast, yogurt, banana, and tea. I’ve got a load of laundry in, the rest of the loads organized, the underwear that Madeline pooped [...]
A few years ago Marc and I almost made a fatal investing mistake. We set up a GIC to get some fixed savings, besides our money market investment. I forget how much we were going to put into it, but the interest we were going to make that year was $50.00. When we set it [...]
Ecclesiastes 12:1 says: Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, ”I find no pleasure in them”
I always thought this meant basically “don’t rebel when you’re young”. I don’t know why. But today I started thinking about what it will be like to [...]
Given my recent struggle with contentment, as so many other friends have also been experiencing, this Steve Bell song is really speaking to me at the moment. Words like “satisfy us… with Your love“, “be glad in all our days”, and especially “establish for us all the work of our hands”.
It is the first song on his [...]
Tonight I was working on a couple of draft posts and went to save them without publishing them, and to make a long story short, when I went back to work on them, I couldn’t find them. Marc was out playing hockey, so I had to turn to my two Prairie Fusion-savvy friends who happened to [...]
I had a light bulb moment with God tonight. I was just praying the little, basic stuff about me and my life, but I know that God was listening. And even that realization was a big thing for me.
Then I started praying for my family — Marc and the kids, our extended families in [...]
Tonight Madeline was wrapping herself up in a blanket and pretending to David, Goliath, Mary, etc. At one point she was getting mad because she couldn’t get her Mary long hair/head dress just right so she asked if I could fix it for her.
I fixed the blanket and she said, “Now, you be baby Jesus.” [...]
Last weekend’s adventure with Micah brought into our house some mighty fine tasting cookies. I thought those cookies were Lauralea’s way of saying “thank you”. Man, those were some fine cookies. As I was eating (way too many and certainly more than my share of) them, I thought… “the best way to say thank you [...]