Posted in Until Death Do Us Part (and to the Death it will be), Picture Book, Comfort & Control on Feb 19th, 2008 1 Comment »
Hung the “gone fishing” sign on the door this weekend and escaped to a city I would move to in a New York minute if I could convince each and every one of my friends to come along. I just can’t imagine living without my peeps, no matter how strongly Portland courts me.
An annual trip […]
Posted in Everyday, Comfort & Control on Feb 13th, 2008 1 Comment »
I’m the mom who forgets she signed up to bring cookies on party day, and runs into Safeway five minutes before preschool starts for the privilege of screaming at her children to hurry up already.
I was also the mom who’s daughter brought Diego Valentines to preschool last year. Period. Because I thought when the […]
Posted in Seen, Heard, Said, Piling It On (and taking it off), Comfort & Control on Feb 12th, 2008 2 Comments »
I saw a commercial for Oprah the other day about the connection between the clutter in your home and the clutter on your ass. Well, they didn’t quite put it that way, but you get the idea. The author’s name is Peter Walsh, and his book really is titled, Does This Clutter Make My […]
Posted in Getting Things Done, Learning, Picture Book, Comfort & Control on Feb 10th, 2008 4 Comments »
We don’t have an entryway.
I have dozens of pictures clipped from magazines of large, high-ceiling-ed entryways with sweeping staircases and homey benches. I have pictures of back door mud rooms with cute storage lockers or cubbies sectioned off for each child. I have pictures of old wardrobes converted to coat closets, of closet system […]
Posted in Comfort & Control on Jan 10th, 2008 No Comments »
I came across a couple old friends on the bookshelf a couple months ago when I was Shelfari-ing through my late night espresso high. I read Thomas A` Kempis’ The Imitation of Christ and Oswald Chambers’ My Utmost for His Highest waaaay back when I was eighteen or nineteen years old, but as I […]
Posted in Comfort & Control on Jan 9th, 2008 2 Comments »
Read a great post over at The Vox Pop’s Reforming the Feminine blog called Agenda Wendy. Here is an excerpt:
Agenda Wendy has a plan. Something occurred to her that would be a really good thing to do. There’s nothing wrong with that. But then woe to the obstacle that gets in Agenda Wendy’s way. […]
Posted in Comfort & Control on Dec 12th, 2007 4 Comments »
I knew this was going to be a difficult Christmas season, and I tried to prepare myself for it mentally. Bryan is working long hours (which means I’m working long hours at home with the kids) and we weren’t planning to get a tree since we’re leaving town half way through the month. […]
Posted in Learning, Comfort & Control on Dec 6th, 2007 No Comments »
It’s been a rough week at the Zughaus. The kids were puking, and I wasn’t getting any sleep. I had to make another trip to the ER with Thomas to rehydrate him, almost had to make a second trip, and throughout it all Bryan had to work until nine or ten at night. […]
Posted in Everyday, Friendship, Comfort & Control on Nov 14th, 2007 2 Comments »
Just checking in because I hate to see posts like this one sit at the top for too long, dragging everyone down. I actually pulled it together this afternoon: I had a good cry over a glass of wine, I had a good cry on the phone with a friend, then I rallied myself […]
Posted in Everyday, Comfort & Control on Nov 13th, 2007 2 Comments »
I’ve had a really shitty and stressful day already, and it’s only 10:30. Thing after Thing has happened, giving many reasons to complain about the injustice of Things not going my way - some legitimate, some not. I’m am failing miserably, today, at responding to these Things with grace and mercy.
Maybe I should […]
Posted in Everyday, Comfort & Control on Nov 12th, 2007 2 Comments »
Last year on election day I turned a new leaf and made a new commitment to the democratic process. Having lived a life of apathy until that point, I felt challenged to care by people in my life that I respected. Not pressured by them, mind you, but internally challenged. I saw their example, […]
Posted in Comfort & Control on Oct 28th, 2007 No Comments »
My kids have been outside playing for the last hour and a half - ever since we got home from church. Earlier this week I had to lock the doors to keep them outside, and now that they should be napping, I can’t bear to drag them in.
I have, in general, lacked this […]
Posted in Learning, Comfort & Control on Oct 22nd, 2007 1 Comment »
Argh! One day of wearing really crappy shoes last week got me shin splints, and I’m mad. I thought resting for four days over the weekend would heal them, but I was still feeling pain this morning when I woke up. So instead of running, I lumbered along on the Monotonous Machine of […]
Posted in Comfort & Control on Sep 24th, 2007 1 Comment »
My bean teepee has done well this summer, and has been a fun introduction into a vegetable garden beyond my usual tomatoes. When I planted my vegetables, I had great romantic visions of teaching the kids all about how things grow, and plucking the fruits of our labor together as folk music swelled in the […]
Posted in Rage Against The Pile, Comfort & Control on Sep 5th, 2007 No Comments »
I’ve been thinking a lot about the issue of habitual sin. We all have sinned, and we all will continue to sin until we are perfect in death with Christ. But we also have a responsibility to turn from our sin, to repent, and to stop doing it.
So what to make of these habitual […]
