Starting today and working backward:

has had a very satisfying day of sermon-writing.

Just got an e-mail from M, courtesy of her day-care provider: “Mom I want you to bring new clothes, because my other clothes got wet and I don’t like the pants.”
[Update: I don’t need anymore clothes because they have dried and I am very happy.
I love you M]

Pumpkin black bean soup and crusty garlic bread. Thanks R.

Last week it was homemade blackberry jam; today it was bread pudding with one of the church matriarchs. This rocks. But I am SO working out today.

Tired. Going back to bed for a little while.

To round out my day of C-related statuses: just about nothing makes me happier than the first grader deciding to write: unprompted, spontaneous, completely for her own pleasure.

helping a first grader practice reading is simultaneously the most gratifying and the most painstaking thing EVAH.

Somewhere in America there’s a kid with a bottle of Flintstone’s vitamins containing an abundance of purple ones. To that child I say: do you like orange? C would be pleased to arrange a swap.

Need one of those 1950s clergy wives this week. Anyone know where I could get one?

will spend the day in gratitude and hope you all do the same…

Shit shit shit damn.

Copping a sit after the CROP walk and before the evening’s activities.

R and I just blasted through the rest of season 4… then remembered that season 5 isn’t released for several weeks. So—this is the way the rest of you feel.

M, after dropping her Jackie O pillbox hat on the floor of the car: “Aww, now I don’t look stunning.”

Egg over medium on a Wolferman’s cheddar cheese English muffin.

reading The Indispensable Guide for Smaller Churches… and it is.

just opened the 20-year port. Five years early, but still.

Hmm, was that a traffic camera on that stoplight next to the hospital? ‘Cause that’s just mean. “Congratulations on the birth of your baby! Here’s a ticket as a memento.”

What were they thinking, making crystal the anniversary gift for 15 years of marriage? Don’t they realize that there are probably children in the mix at that point? Should be the Lego anniversary.

met with the clerk of session this afternoon. Came home with a rough draft of an agenda and two jars of homemade blackberry jam.

ALD sucks.