I’m back. For the next five minutes. Marc pointed out to me a few minutes ago that I haven’t done a post since Tuesday. Yep. That sounds about right.
This was the week to get ALL the work done, for you see I decided last week that I’d like the kids to be able to escape [...]
Thinking about this beautiful lady. Today she would’ve been 88.
I think I inherited her cheeks, too. (Look at the picture of me in the banner, and you’re sure to see it.)
And, I’m not sure if it’s good or bad that I had to look on her funeral card to check the spelling of her first [...]
That’s what this week has been filled with. (Man! I’m so used to writing papers this week that I just hit Ctrl-S after that last sentence. That doesn’t work in this format…) I had a post I’ve been meaning to write entitled “Sleepy Kittens, Drowned Rats, and Stinky Old Men” (sounds interesting, right?), but there [...]
(Instead of writing up a whole other post, I’m just going to copy and paste from the discussion in my on-line course today. There you go. I’m being efficient.)
For some reason I think this little vignette from my morning with the kids fits into this discussion. We’ve been talking about suffering from different perspectives. This [...]
Although Madeline is adamant about and correct in saying that “Spring does not start until Saturday!”, there is no snow on the field across the street, so I am saying it is springtime. Or at least that winter is now over. Can I just say that I cannot believe we survived the winter? I normally [...]
It was just over a year ago that my perspective on parenting changed. Up until that point, I’d look at discipline in a rather unfortunate way — even more unfortunate because my children were already 6, almost 4, and almost 2 at the time. That’s a lot of years of discipline gone awry. My poor [...]
Times like this morning… where we do the traditional Saturday morning sleep-in while the children make their own cereal and play and watch tv. Except after we got up this morning we had about two hours before Luke’s friends would arrive for his birthday. This wasn’t really a problem because we got most everything ready [...]
Wow. Where have the last five years go? Oh wait. I know. Looking after an over-sized, super-energized little boy. It’s been an exhausting adventure, but looking back it’s been really good. I’ve learned about love in a whole new way having this boy who is so opposite from me and my old expectations of what [...]
Marc’s currently distracted by some documentary about a monastery that he checked out of the library tonight. We were supposed to sit and watch it while we worked, but it’s not loading in the dvd player, so he tried computer and now he’s been watching it for fifteen minutes. More laptop time for me.
When Marc [...]
Life has returned to “normal” around here. Marc is at the library. I am at home. Luke is sick. Just like it always is. Luke’s seriously been coughing every 10 seconds since he got up this morning. I made him lay down for a nap (because rest is supposed to help your body, right?). It [...]