Affection, Family and How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
Two years ago I was sitting at my mother's house in Texas, one of those rare get-togethers in which all her children (and their children) were in her home. We were all chatting about our childhood in...
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The children are sick. My youngest had a day of intense vomiting, followed by two days of uncontrollable diarrhea. She seems recovered now. My five-year-old is on her fourth day of sickness. My...
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The children are well now, except for a cold. Even if they were still sick, last week's tragedy would have left me grateful even to have them vomiting on me.Everyone I know is grieving. Saturday I...
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Jennifer Fulwiler, who writes one of my favorite blogs, Conversion Diary, is pregnant and ill with blood clots in her lungs. She expects to recover, but it will take months. In the meantime, she is...
View ArticleDrip, drip, drip
Like everyone and their brother, I am trying to write a novel. That's how I always say it: like everyone and their brother. Like it gets me off the hook. Don't expect too much, it says. I'm only...
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Here are 7 Quick Takes about my week. The meme is hosted over at Conversion Diary.1. I did not blog yesterday! I meant to. I took the computer to the living room, turned on an old episode of Poirot,...
View ArticleLove lasts
I love the laziness of Saturdays.I don't set the alarm. The girls want me to be in bed when they wake. On school days there is no time for snuggles, so Saturday they come running to my room. The spots...
View ArticleMaking Myself Sit
Tonight after the homework was done, I sat on the couch with the kids while they watched The Lorax. I didn't sit for the whole movie, but for the first twenty minutes I stayed put, with children...
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We have the flu.3 of us are sick. The other 3 haven't caught it yet. I'd appreciate your prayers. I am especially concerned about my youngest. She has not caught this yet, but she is prone to croup, so...
View ArticleThe Flu and Gratitude
We are all on the mend, but tired and cranky. Everyone caught the flu in the end, but my youngest daughter's breathing remained clear despite the cough, for which I am grateful. Thank you for your...
View ArticleThe Thought That Counts
This past December I had an idea on facebook. Instead of sending out holiday cards (which I never do because it makes me crazy), I would give a personalized book recommendation to each of my facebook...
View ArticleMalingering
The flu doesn't die easy. I told my feverish five-year-old a few days ago that there was a war going on in her body. She had been invaded, and her white blood cells were inventing weapons that very...
View ArticleMore than being right
Pick one: A. God is good.B. Look at those people over there who don't believe that God is good. We must resist them before they ruin everything.I spent some time reading arguments in the blogosphere...
View ArticleWhy I Am Reformed
The other day Sherri Edman called me the nicest Calvinist she knows. I smiled at that, because I've known Sherri and Peter long enough by now to hear a little subtext to that description. It's one of...
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You know what I hate? When someone promises you a blog series and then disappears for over a month. I hate that.The children have been sick for weeks. Make that months. One disease would pass through...
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My Creative Parenting Solution and How It Failed
My girls do not like to clean their room. Shocking, I know. But last week, when I sent them to their room to clean it, they were even worse than usual. After two hours of whining and "cleaning," their...
View ArticleIf I wrote this in hieroglyphics, she'd be interested
I am writing this with a nine-year-old in my lap. Nine-year-olds do not easily fit into a lap, and rarely want to. However, I have been trying to spend more time writing, and this nine year old is...
View ArticleWhy I Am Reformed: Overview
Months ago, I promised to do a series of posts on why I belong to the section of Christianity that calls itself Reformed. And then I slipped into the world of fevered children and adult root-canals...
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7 Quick Takes
1. This is the year my kids' educational experience imploded. I could write the details, I suppose, but living through them was enough. After one suspension, many, many meetings, some disappointing...
View ArticleWhy I'm Reformed: Original Sin
(This title makes me giggle. See? Calvinists laugh.)Original sin is the Christian doctrine that people are prone to sin and cannot, by their own effort, be perfectly good. We are stained from our...
View ArticleSnow Day
There is no snow on the ground, but we have a snow day today. We are expecting a winter storm to blow through this afternoon, dropping freezing rain on us and leaving 3-7 inches of snow. Cincinnati...
View ArticleA Husband in Winter
My husband says I love him more in winter. The heat does not stay in our drafty old house, and I scoot closer on the couch. He wears big quilted overshirts, and when I walk into our kitchen on the...
View ArticleThe Most Important Thing I Know About Parenting
My worst flare-ups as a mother - every single one - happened when I was anxious about someone else's opinion of me. Sometimes that someone else isn't even a real person, merely one of the faceless...
View ArticleBullies and Neighbors
"Young man, we don't have have fun by making little girls cry." I made my voice firm as I said this to the nine-year-old boy at the fountain, but my words still sounded hollow. To some boys, making...
View ArticleBecoming small
We are starting a new church. And I start homeschooling my oldest two kids this fall. My world is about to grow by becoming very small. A new church is a tiny thing. There are about twenty people who...
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