That night when we got home from the ER with Madeline and she sat there drinking her glass of water and having a couple of prunes (because in the end, we figured it was something to do with gas or constipation, but who knows), I told her that Marc and I were going to start [...]
This is what advent meals looked like for our famiy this year. (Well mostly, anyway. Usually things were a lot more animated — since I’m only getting after Luke for something here and the girls appear to actually be quiet. Maybe that’s why I like it, because it’s almost a calm moment!)
I wonder what advent [...]
I was ready for the bedroom as soon as Marc and I got home from our date last night (a viewing of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button — which is a great movie). I went into bed with great anticipation of when Marc would join me. It didn’t take too long before he arrived [...]
I’ve been thinking about what was missing at the Christmas Eve service. Now, I don’t want to start picking apart every time Marc and I do something new in church ministry. We will never be perfect and we are learning and developing our own voice in ministry, but something felt missing that night. For all [...]
Marc and I had a very relaxing evening — we read by the fire in the Ikea chairs. Perfect. I had just finished putting the water in my new chiropractic pillow (I love that pillow; I fall asleep immediately on it) when I heard a little voice calling my name. It took about a minute [...]
Okay, so here’s the thing about two parents organizing and carrying out a service in which they both need to be on stage the entire time: it’s impossible to look after your kids. We thought ahead and asked our parents if they’d be willing to either keep the two littlest kids at their place for [...]
Well, this year we decided to let the kids open their presents before the Christmas Eve service. We got all dressed for the service in the late afternoon and they opened their presents, we lit the last of the advent candles during supper, and now we’ve got about an hour until we head over to [...]
I still have in my drafts a post I did last winter in which I use the phrase “Marc and I made love“. Good thing I got him to read that post before I published it, because he just kept saying “No. No. No. No.” So, now the big question is, how do I do [...]
I think my language of stress is tears. Right now I feel like if I could just have one good cry and get it out of my system, that I’d be able to handle the day a lot better. Or maybe if I just had a few minutes of quiet to get everything finally finalized [...]
I did a long, wordy post tonight about the stresses of the day for Marc and I. But I don’t feel like posting it. (Actually, I had it posted for about 30 seconds, so maybe some of you caught it, or maybe your RSS feeds did.)
Sometimes stress is just hard to describe. And what is [...]