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work in progress: June 2010
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Sunday, June 27, 2010. Summer has finally arrived in Portland, so we've been taking advantage of our new friend the sun. Lots of trips to the park, playing in fountains, late evening walks, and homemade ice cream. Eli tried fishing with Daddy, but he was about as patient as you'd imagine. He was more interested in catching salamanders with the net. Or himself. And I spent summers outdoors. My parents were both teachers, and they loved to travel. We spent weeks at a time traveling the country in o...All d...
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work in progress: March 2012
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Thursday, March 1, 2012. The little lady arrives. Her other brother has his doubts. The Target jaunt did the trick (especially since we ended up having to go to the other. Vancouver store, even further up the highway). By noon, I was on the phone with my doctor's office, playing the "How far apart are they? The first blessing was that my admission nurse was the same fantastic woman who delivered Lucas three years ago. I'm sure she felt good and stalked when I squealed, "KY! My epidural wore off.
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work in progress: May 2010
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Thursday, May 13, 2010. We celebrated our boys' birthdays in April. Lucas turned one and Eli turned three (and I turned 25, again) within days of each other. We threw them a joint birthday party in the park. We had to reschedule the party and move to a new location at the last minute, so we were thankful for flexible and understanding friends. The theme of the party was Up! My favorite animated movie ever. Luke's first year of life. A couple of other random notes on life:. And our adopted hometown, and I...
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work in progress: the rascal
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Sunday, August 12, 2012. So I just spent ten minutes sobbing in the corner. After fifteen minutes cleaning up a supposed-to-be-napping child's sticky, stubborn mess. After five solid minutes of yelling my head off while said child wailed. I was so mad, and I didn't hold back. And I toed the line between righteously indignant and out of control and if I'm honest, probably crossed it. Slobbery and clumsy and perpetually naughty - Luke is my child who is just a little harder to love. Cue husband literally b...
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work in progress: March 2011
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Saturday, March 12, 2011. Ben is out of town this weekend, on a retreat to Sunriver with some of the awesome manly men of our church. He is snowboarding and skiing and snowmobiling, having (I hope) a fantastically wild-at-heart kind of time. In the car today. I actually had to pull over, get out, and apologize because, seriously? So, not my absolute finest use of a weekend, but not terrible, all things considered. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Random notes on a blessed life. View my complete profile.
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work in progress: on my own
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Saturday, March 12, 2011. Ben is out of town this weekend, on a retreat to Sunriver with some of the awesome manly men of our church. He is snowboarding and skiing and snowmobiling, having (I hope) a fantastically wild-at-heart kind of time. In the car today. I actually had to pull over, get out, and apologize because, seriously? So, not my absolute finest use of a weekend, but not terrible, all things considered. March 14, 2011 at 7:16 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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work in progress: home sweet home
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Tuesday, June 7, 2011. I have a goal this summer. I want to stay home. You say, "But you're a stay-at-home mom! Staying home is in your job description! Alas, I am the least stay-at-home of all stay-at-home moms. I love my home. I love my children. I love entire days. Put those three things together, and it's my nightmare. Now, there's nothing necessarily wrong with this habit, but it's been impressed on my spirit that I need to make some changes. We need to spend more time at home, period. I nee...Last ...
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work in progress: July 2010
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Saturday, July 24, 2010. Every evening, before I go to bed, I imagine that the next day will go something like this:. 6:30 Rise and shine! Have a half-hour of intimate Bible study and worship followed by an invigorating workout. Shower, get dressed. Maybe a cute sundress, jewelry, sandals. Do hair. Put on makeup. Take many vitamins. 9:00 Take completely prepared diaper bag and neatly dressed and groomed children out to the car. Run five or six errands with great efficiency, using coupons and reusable...
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work in progress: Our German Adventure, Day Five
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Monday, May 6, 2013. Our German Adventure, Day Five. Yesterday was such an adventure! Two very different highlights. We stayed in a neat hotel right on the town square in Adenau. After breakfast we headed a few miles down the road to the Nurburgring. Hello, Disneyland for grown men! I kept this information to myself so as to not further freak out the driver of my car. I prayed, tried to breathe, went to pee sixteen times, and cursed Top Gear for putting this ridiculous notion in my husband's head. Today,...
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work in progress: June 2011
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Tuesday, June 7, 2011. I have a goal this summer. I want to stay home. You say, "But you're a stay-at-home mom! Staying home is in your job description! Alas, I am the least stay-at-home of all stay-at-home moms. I love my home. I love my children. I love entire days. Put those three things together, and it's my nightmare. Now, there's nothing necessarily wrong with this habit, but it's been impressed on my spirit that I need to make some changes. We need to spend more time at home, period. I nee...Last ...
