Thing the First: Your eight-month-old sitting on the living room floor, munching away on… something.
Thing the Second: Your five-year-old holding a wad of your two-year-old’s hair.
Thing the Second necessitated a trip to the hair salon to do something about this:

I’d say they did a nice job.

Though, the divine miss M seems to be pooh-poohing the […]

Sweet baby J is 8 months today!
Is there any wonder your sister calls you the King of Hair?

Oh wait, wrong picture.

That’s the stuff.

I am really dragging this week. Our day care provider is on vacation this week, and her backup is also gone. So I’ve got kid duty, which is not a big thing—they are my children after all—but it’s also VBS. I am one of the storytellers which means I’ve worked every day. I have gotten […]

The time will come when with elation
you will greet yourself at your own arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was yourself.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, the stranger who has […]

So I went to the liquor store this afternoon.
Which always feels weird.
But I was just there to buy liqueur for chocolate truffles.
Which we are taking to a church member’s house tomorrow, despite their being very boozy*.
I bought some additional stuff while I was there.
And then went to church to preach the evening service.
…So many layers.
*the […]

Fun in the princess tent.

Remember this idea for a new church development housed in the arts center?
It continues to percolate, though I must admit that the idea makes me tired. I visited another NCD not long ago that also has an arts focus, and found it very interesting and inspiring but it was also clear that it’s the pastor’s […]

Yesterday we took C to see WALL*E, which was as good as everyone’s been saying. (Though I did hear about a person who hated the anti-consumerism message, and was going to boycott Disney as a result. Yes, you heard that right. He’s going to take a stand for consumerism… by not buying anything.)
Anyway, we saw […]

Ah, to be a kid with a box.
Look hard and you will see a pug-like nose and pencil-thin mustache… a robot’s gotta have some style.

The floaty eyeball says it all!
I rest my case.
Again.
Hat tip: Current Configuration. Read the whole post and be amazed at the author’s ability to harness the Power of Science.

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The sermon series on children’s lit began on Sunday with Because of Winn-Dixie. I ended up using three clips, but none of them in the sermon itself. We begin our worship with silence, which I prefaced with the scene […]

Special guest blogger: the divine miss m
Today Mommy and I made brownies. After Mommy put them in the oven it was time to put baby J down for a nap. So she gave me a spoon to lick and told me to put it in the sink when I was done, then go upstairs to […]

So I said the other day that a friend linked to this blog under my real name, even though this is an intentionally pseudonymous space.
All along I have been much more concerned about the real name –> blog scenario than the blog –> real name one. Readers of this blog could find out my […]

Ah, photos. The lazy blogger’s crutch.
But seriously, I’ve been meaning to take the centerpiece of our kitchen table for a while, since it is such a weird collection of stuff:

communion set given to me by Senior Pastor for my fifth ordination anniversary
homemade “sparkler” craft perched in the communion chalice
pink butterfly craft made by C
round oil […]