9 months
22 pounds
30 inches
1 obsolete car seat
8 teeth
3 meals a day
2 naps
1 hour each
11 hours at night
12 if we’re lucky

Last night was the second meeting of the Night Owls, a new women’s circle at the church I serve. It’s a nice group–we’re getting to know one another and figuring out the format and flow of the evenings.
And speaking of groups…
1. Tell us about any group(s) you currently belong to. (e.g. book club, knitting circle, […]

I receive The Writer’s Almanac in my mailbox each morning. I must confess that while I unsubbed from the daily scripture e-mail before M was born and still haven’t resubbed, I never miss the daily poem from the Writer’s Alamanac. It’s the only *daily* devotional reading I do.
Right now I’m sitting in a Panera, having […]

Spent the weekend on retreat with the twenties and thirties group from church. We were in a large house on a lake, and we did very little. My head of staff would be appalled with me for not planning something structured, but 1) it’s not really my role with that group and 2) people didn’t […]

A Songbird original:
1) Are you a baby about small injuries?
Yes, sometimes, although I’m pretty stoic about them. I think my pain tolerance must be pretty high (two unmedicated labors?). I do feel sorry for myself sometimes though, and R gets to hear me whine.
The injuries often don’t bother me as much as the treatment. When […]

C, in the car earlier:
[doing the hand motions]
“Here is the church, here is the steeple,
open the door and see all the people.”
C: What’s this? [folding fingers under]
Me: The church.
C: What’s this? [pointing index fingers]
Me: The steeple.
C: What’s this? [turning hands upside down]
Me: The people.
C: What’s this? [pointing out the window]
Me: I don’t know.
C: [in duh! […]

Someone submitted my name to the Associate Pastor Nominating Committee of First Presbyterian Church in New York City.
The last time I got an inquiry from a search committee, I knew who had put my name in. This time I have no clue.
I feel bemusedly paranoid about that.
And tempted… but only slightly.
The long-term goal is to […]

Very good, tiring weekend. The workshop went well, the concert was great. Got to see Mibi! Sorry we didn’t have more time to visit.Edited to add two cool things:
1. When I introduced the speaker I shared this story, and it was wonderful to be able to share that with her. As she wrote me later, […]

David Letterman used to have a feature on his show called “Brushes with Greatness.” Members of the audience would share stories of encounters with famous people. And so…
1. Tell us about a time you met someone famous.
I think I’ve written about this before, but one of my friends in high school got really good at […]

Very fruitful day. Lunch with Semi-Famous Blogger, then a great time in spiritual direction. I see a sparkly Dominican nun every month or so. The theme I seem to be working on in my life lately is assertiveness and authenticity. How to speak the truth in love. I sometimes overemphasize the love part and swallow […]

We have a meet and greet feature on the RevGal homepage, including a questionnaire by Will Smama. I don’t know when my turn will come to be featured, but inthe meantime, here are my answers:
Got blog?
www.reverendmother.org
What gives you joy?
Simple joy: Browsing the drugstore–they have the best stuff there
Profound joy: Finishing a long and difficult […]

This week’s Friday Five is simple: Name five things you have enjoyed this week.
Hmm. Just to spice it up, I’ll do one for each of the five senses:
The sight of my hand cupped around the divine miss m’s head while she nurses/sleeps–the cup is getting shallower and shallower as she grows and grows.
The fact […]

First Friday of May, 2006 –
I receive my electronic copy of the Crankypants News Monthly, which contains articles written by members of the presbytery. The articles are written by two women and three men, all middle aged or older and white. One article is written by a retired minister, entitled “If I were twenty years […]

Today
I had back-to-back meetings downtown today (WritingRevs, then Presbytery Uber-Committee) which allowed me to take the Metro, which I so vastly prefer to driving. It went without a hitch, except, in my unthinking haste to catch a train whose doors were closing, I stuck my arm and leg out to stop it and remembered too […]

The divine miss m had a splendid first day at day care!

My last post sparked some interesting comments (see previous post and comments) about entertaining… got me thinking about the differences between entertaining and hospitality.
Songbird’s stay-at-home theory (that rates of entertaining have gone down as two-career homes have become more prevalent) is interesting, and there’s probably something to it. It’s an irony though, in that I […]

R is out grocery shopping with M so I have a few moments…

There are times in life and ministry when one just has SO much to do–and it’s ALL urgent AND important–that it just becomes laughable. I actually prefer those phases to the times when I could, theoretically, get it all done if I just […]

This is one of mine… a timely one since we just got home from taking C and MaDear to Baltimore airport, then we grabbed a couple of crabcake sandwiches and came home with a brief stop at the National Cryptologic Museum next to the NSA, which R has been wanting to do. It was low-budget […]