C is home today with a fever. J is at L’s house, which means it’s just the girls…
Can you guess what comes next in this real-life conversation?
C: Can I listen to a CD?
M: I wanna listen to Cinderella!
C: I don’t want to listen to that!
Me: C, you can listen to your CD up in your […]

There’s a vas deferens between having three kids and having four.
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This morning at the breakfast table.
RM: Sigh… I had to give J a bottle last night. I think he is weaning.
little she-who-is: What’s weaning?
RM: He doesn’t want nursies anymore. He bit me last night, I think because he wasn’t getting enough milk.
R: Aw, just like […]

A denominational publishing house offered me a little assignment recently: to read a book proposal they’d received for a book on preaching, and to evaluate it based on whether I think it would be helpful for people who are in the early years of their ministry.
I’m hoping to finish up my report in the next […]

M on her first day of preschool

Howdy.
Still here.
Last week was our first week with everyone in their places—J at daycare down the street three days a week, M joining him a couple of days and also attending preschool two mornings, and C’s first full week of kindergarten.
I have a spreadsheet to keep track of where […]

Scene 1
Overheard at the bus stop last Thursday:
Mom 1: Did you watch her speech last night?
Mom 2: Oh, no.
Mom 1: Oh, are you guys Democrats?
Mom 2: No, we’re independents. We don’t vote straight Democrat or Republican. … Yeah, this year is a really tough one.
(translation: We’re for Obama, but I know you’re for McCain and […]

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Last night I dreamed that I decided to put little she-who-is up for adoption. I felt so blessed with three kids that I wanted to share that joy with someone who did not have children.
But afterward I regretted it. How could I let my firstborn child go like that? I missed her. I wanted her […]