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 […]

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 […]

I’ve been feeling like Bilbo: “stretched… like butter, scraped over too much bread.”
The upside of having a bullet-proof organizational system is that you can always, always, find a way to maximize any available moment.
Wait, that’s the downside.
So, I’m going to pray more. This has already produced interesting results.
I’m also going to goof off more. Just […]

A little of everything:

Sen. Obama, I’d be glad to be your pastor. My preaching is edgy only to the extent that the gospel is edgy. I don’t preach partisan, so, call me…
We had a great time on vacation, visiting family, getting folks graduated and so on. It was not so much restful (a la napping […]

Today was R’s company picnic, which was fun for the whole family, but we are paying for it tonight. The kids were strung out. J-man is not settling well.
We always try to leave events right when the kids are at the crest of Fun Mountain. It’s silly to leave way too soon just so […]

Wow, a week without blogging! Is there anyone still around here?
SBJ and I had a good week in Midwestern City in Two States. He slept poorly (extremely poorly) at night, but was sunny and easygoing during the day—which is better than the converse, I suppose. He put up with being passed from person to person, […]

I leave tomorrow for several days of study leave, with my clergy assistant SBJ in tow. Now that I’ve got the papers done and the bags (mostly) packed, I am now super excited to see NotShyChiRev, Texas Clergypal, will smama, apstraight, Laidback Clergypal, Seminary Galpal, and several non-pseudonymed folk.
I won’t have internet access except for […]

cleaned up a poopsplosion
snorfled the baby’s nose and he *didn’t* object, because it helped him breathe better
watched this McCain supporter make an ass out of himself
finished re-reading The Giver. Even more powerful than I remembered, whoa. Thanks for the reminder Anne.
received notification that I was chosen to do another MotherTalk book review
delivered C’s get well […]

Both kids are asleep—for now! We’ll see how long an update I get out of them:
Mamala/MaDear is having outpatient surgery tomorrow. There’s been a cyst on her ovary for a while now, and while it hasn’t changed, my aunt’s death of ovarian cancer increases Mom’s risk, so she’s just getting the things out. If you […]

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 […]

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.

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.

My last Sunday of maternity leave.
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Twentieth-century parents kept their National Geographic Magazines so their kids could cut them up for school projects. But we’re in the digital age now. Do kids still make collages, and don’t they do so with pictures they download from the Internet?
We have 15 years’ worth.
I’m in a real “the […]

The week got away from me!
Busy time getting ready to go back to work on Tuesday. I’m a little nervous about the transition in job description and from full-time to part-time, but I also feel ready to have that part of my life back.
I will work Tuesday and Thursday, with Wednesday as writing/home day. […]