First day of school began with me still in Louisiana. I had a pulpit supply job and then the plane was late so that I had to stay overnight. Got up at 4:15 am this morning to various conflicting reports as to whether my flight was cancelled and when I needed to be […]
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The kids are out of school and I need to do some work. Jennifer does her usual helpful thing and volunteers to take all four of ours, plus one guest, to the St. Louis Science Center. Everything is great.
Then, as everyone is bustling around, I notice again something that bothered me last night–that when I’m […]
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Why am I blogging this? No reason whatever. I just want to.
It is odd that kids always love playing at what we later decide is drudgery and hard labor. My boys used to think using the broom was the most fantastic privilege on earth–until they were tall enough […]
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Charis is singing to her brothers’ matchbox cars a medley of stuff about learning shapes and colors, loving one another being very important, and other stuff, with the la la las of the “Deck the Halls” carol adapted for filler.
And I turn to Jennifer and say wistfully, “It won’t be too long before she’ll stop […]
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(Click on pictures to read about event.)
But then again, I may prefer the action shot to posing:What do you think?
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They’re robots too! (Smaller version if your computer can’t keep up.)
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Calvin: Stunk!
Nevin: The movie stunk!
Calvin: He never even got to defeat the Dark Master.
Me: Well, he couldn’t Calvin.
Calvin: Why not?
Me: Because the Dark Master was death.
Calvin: So? What about Harry Potter? “The last enemy to be destroyed is death.”
Me: But in Harry Potter they never beat death. The whole […]
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So at some point during World Breastfeeding Week, I went back in the Dooce archives (huge, gartantuan content warning; I AM NOT KIDDING) and read about Leta’s first days in the Armstrong household via Heather’s posts. I knew she would provide me with spiritual nourishment and I was not disappointed:
I decided many years ago […]
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From my left column I thought this was really funny.
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So I’m working at the dinner table since the soul of my iMac is somewhere lose in the ether and its body is sitting motionless at my real desk. I’m working on my laptop yesterday morning and the girl pictured left crawls up into the chair beside me in her pajamas and starts playing […]
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Today was Evangeline’s softball party for the end of the season.
Here she is in uniform.
Calvin was tired (they are all tired) so most of his pictures are rather down. I did get one action shot when he was charging me as I snapped the picture:
After eating in the school gym, we went out and […]
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The original picture showed her with a friend, but I don’t post other people’s children without their permission.
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my son wrote an Easter Poem. And it’s “ecclesio-centric”!
I’m so proud!
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Me: You know, some people don’t like the idea that Jesus is a great king.
Calvin: Why not?
Me: They think being a king means only giving orders and not forgiving.
Calvin: Oh, they’re thinking of a dictator like Hitler or someone.
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