My latest article for the National Crankypants Monthly:
As imperfect as [Jeremiah Wright] may be, he has been like family to me… He contains within him the contradictions - the good and the bad - of the community that he has served diligently for so many years. I can no more disown him than I can […]

We’ll see if sweet baby j stays asleep long enough for me to finish this meme which originated here. Ruth’s answers are so great, it’ll be hard to come up with something different…
1. What is your earliest memory of being distinctly Presbyterian?
I only became a Presbyterian as an adult, but I would say it was […]

Here’s my idea for a new kid product that I’m pretty sure doesn’t exist: a pictorial clock.
Our toddler will often get up before everyone else and just kinda wander around. Once it becomes clear that everyone’s still asleep, she can easily be coaxed back to bed.
The trouble, of course, is that she can’t […]

First things first: SPOOKYRACH won the 10,000th comment challenge! This was several days back but I kept forgetting to announce it. E-mail me your address, and I’ll send you some goodies sometime, oh, before the 11,000th comment.
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Next, the book challenge: I recently finished reading David Allen’s Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and […]

Still here. Had a mostly wonderful day with the divine miss M and sweet baby J, punctuated with brief toddler flare ups. They also napped at the same time again!
Easter was good but exhausting—Christ is risen, and so did SBJ several times the night before. Last night was better. I really hope whatever this is […]

This is actually several weeks old. But you get the idea.

Shirts courtesy of CG Auntie.
Happy Easter everyone! I’m going offline for the weekend.

The war in Iraq is five years old today, but let’s turn to a different five year old, the one living in my house.
Two quotes:
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“Only things with heads can make noise.”
R and I spent an embarrassing amount of time pondering this hypothesis.
Does the person teaching the Parks and Rec science course know what s/he’s […]

Somebody’s five years old today…

Happy Birthday Iraq War!
My, how the time has flown. From the moment you were born you’ve been filling us with shock and awe. Why, it seems like just yesterday you were pulling down statues and toddling around on aircraft carriers. And look at you now!
Who knows? You may even live to […]

Sheryl’s comment in the previous post sums up what I feel about Preachergate.
Here are a few additional thoughts:
As a preface, I take members and friends of Trinity Church at their word, that the church is more than what we have seen played on infinite loop in the media.
1. It’s fairly obvious to most people in […]

Consider:
God damn America (that’s in the Bible) for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.

The toddler and the baby are ASLEEP AT THE SAME TIME!!!
Make your guesses here as to how long that will last.

I’ll be hitting 10,000 comments soon. The lucky winner gets a box of goodness.
You know what to do!

R has a new job as of several weeks ago. He closed his consulting business in order to go work for a former client who made him an offer he couldn’t refuse—namely, more money, paid vacation, and the chance to have his evenings back. I told him awhile back that he ought to do something […]

With each successive kid, some new aspect of the morning routine has gone out the window. With C, it was making the bed. (Come to think of it, I was never very regular with that Sisyphean task.)
With M, it was wearing contact lenses.
With J, it has been messing with my hair. I pretty […]

Nothing much to report.
I hate Spring Forward weekend.
Two of our children are sleeping poorly. This started before DST began.
The cradle cap and eczema are under control.
I am out of hoity-toity chocolate.
That is all.

The week is going fine. Being back to work is like wading into a fast moving stream. Step, step, step WHOOSH
Someone sent this to me. I give it a big hell to the yeah, and am very glad it didn’t turn all treacly at the end:
HOW TO PREPARE FOR BECOMING A PARENT
in 15 simple steps
Lesson […]

(Our first day on the new schedule—M and SBJ home with me today)
2:27 p.m. — Wow, it looks like both children will be napping at the same time!
2:32 p.m — Oops. Never mind.
3:13 p.m. — SBJ is asleep upstairs, M is downstairs with Mr. Rogers—might I be able to sit here in the living room […]