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 […]

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.

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 […]

Five years ago, I wasn’t reverendmother, just mother. She made it happen.
Happy Birthday to little she-who-is!
from the archives…
On the eve of my daughter’s second birthday

Two years ago tonight
You woke me up in the dark morning.
You had done so once before,
without incident,
And many times since, too many to count,
all of them melted together into a single […]

Or so said College Pal the other night. (uh, they’re both perfect squares too!)
Today I am closer to 40 than I am to 30. Oy.
Free to Be sent me a card that said, “Whew! What a year!” 2007 was a big year, but 2008 promises to bring even more change: I go part-time. R changes […]

First, we are all doing well here. J had a visit with our ped today (our practice doesn’t go to the hospital where we delivered) and he’s fine, though they want to test his bilirubin again tomorrow morning. He’s also lost right at 10% of his birth weight, which is as much as they really […]

So after getting C’s room in order to welcome her little sister, and having a perfectly uneventful bedtime, complete with pictures and stories and drifting easily to sleep…
It was the night from hell.
M woke up at 11:30 screaming NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! Over and over. Lather, rinse, repeat every 20-30 minutes for the […]

It’s Mr. RM’s birthday! Yes, he is old enough to be president now.
As he puts it, “Yes, my age has really been holding me back from that.”
I’ve been thinking today about how we met. It was sophomore year in college, and this is how it happened, with a few edits. From this post:
Put simply, […]

Though, how does one define “random”?
It is a challenge to find things I haven’t talked about here before. I think I was mostly successful:
1. I don’t have perfect pitch, but I do have a strange cousin to it: whereas I cannot pull a specific note out of thin air, I will sing a piece […]

Good things come in threes. Here are some notable trios; see if you can find my favorite:

Plácido Domingo, José Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti – the tenors
Manny, Moe and Jack – the pep boys
Harry, Ron, and Hermione – wizarding trifecta
peanut butter, pickle, and mayonnaise – R’s favorite sandwich abomination
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – old-school trinity
Speaker, […]

hi
bye
kitty
daddy
mama
elmo (meh-muh)
book
potty
diaper
uh oh
all done (ah dah)
balloon (boowoo or boo, my favorite)

Great discussion at BesoMami about women clergy. How far have we come, or not?
I think we have come a long way. I also think we have a long way to go. The head of staff seems to be the stained glass ceiling. But are those positions more closed to women, or are women (especially those […]

It’s nasty and cold outside, and I was about as low-energy in worship as one
can get while still retaining a pulse. Blah! Yuck! Ptui!
This anniversary of dad’s death has been harder than some of the others. Partly because I know that my dad’s ashes are being scattered today (assuming the weather has cooperated) and partly […]