Posted in Comfort & Control, Startup Mom on Jun 15th, 2010 No Comments »
My assistant affectionately calls me the Boss Lady, which I find endearing. “Hey boss lady,” she’ll write in an email. “Here’s the weekly financial update. Did you send out the checks?” Yeah, she may call me Boss Lady, but she’s always telling me what to do. I find that I really like being the boss [...]
Posted in Comfort & Control on May 27th, 2010 3 Comments »
This kitchen trash bag contains all the lunches Ruthie left at school over the last couple weeks that she finally remembered to bring home. I estimate there were at least four lunches, and about ten tupperware containers. Inside those containers were half eaten sandwiches, untouched apple slices, some leftover taco meat, and an unopened package [...]
Posted in Comfort & Control, Everyday, Ruthie on May 10th, 2010 3 Comments »
Mail Man Mail Man do your duty Here comes a woman with an African booty This is what they’re singing on the playground these days while jumping rope. When I was a kid we sang about bubble gum and ice cream, but now it’s about getting laid by the mail man. I once got in [...]
Posted in Comfort & Control, Until Death Do Us Part (and to the Death it will be) on May 9th, 2010 2 Comments »
I’m pretty sure this was the best Mother’s Day EVER. Breakfast at my favorite spot, church, sun, a nap, and time in the garden. It’s how we spend most Mother’s Days, but this year I felt like the party drunk hugging everyone and crying, “I LOVE YOU, MAN!” Everything about this day felt perfect before [...]
Posted in Comfort & Control, Everyday on May 7th, 2010 2 Comments »
I keep thinking that parenting will get easier once the next thing happens – once they’re crawling, once they’re walking, once they’re out of diapers, once they’re in school, blah blah blah – and to some extent this is true. It DOES get easier to fly on an airplane to grandma’s house when no one [...]
Posted in Comfort & Control, Everyday, Learning on Mar 23rd, 2010 3 Comments »
David was a shepherd, but when God looked at him, he saw a king. Sure enough, when David grew up, that’s just what he became. And David was a great king. He had a heart like God’s heart – full of love. Now, that didn’t mean he was perfect, because he did some terrible things [...]
Posted in Comfort & Control, Everyday, Piling It On (and taking it off) on Jan 18th, 2010 5 Comments »
Posted in Comfort & Control, Everyday on Oct 20th, 2009 No Comments »
Today technology is not bowing down to me. In fact, it is quite certainly giving me The Finger. My trick to getting work done in the afternoon is for Thomas to watch a movie, but guess what? The DVD player is crapping out, and for an unknown reason movies won’t play from the laptop. No [...]
Posted in Comfort & Control, On Writing, Until Death Do Us Part (and to the Death it will be) on Oct 5th, 2009 3 Comments »
At some point during every major project I take on, I have a nervous breakdown. It comes shortly after I’ve committed, laid my reputation on the line, and pulled on my hip-waders. Take pregnancy, for example. Around the seven month mark is probably a little too late to panic about what kind of Mommy Dearest [...]
Posted in Comfort & Control, Everyday, Startup Mom on Sep 16th, 2009 2 Comments »
God, your God, has blessed you in everything you have done. He has guarded you in your travels through this immense wilderness. For forty years now, God, your God, has been right here with you. You haven’t lacked one thing (Deuteronomy 2:7, The Message). I think the tricky part to the Daily Grind is not [...]
Posted in Comfort & Control, Everyday, Ruthie on Jul 23rd, 2009 5 Comments »
Isn’t she beautiful? I’m really struggling with this little girl right now. She is a challenge, and every day is a series of battles over things as minuscule as Please Put Your Shoes on the Shoe Rack (because apparently that’s the most unfair thing I could ask of her). And I’m tired. I’m tired of [...]
Posted in Comfort & Control on Jul 8th, 2009 7 Comments »
On the heels of my last post re the boundaries of my comfort zone, I happened to catch the last part of a PBS documentary called Life. Support. Music. about a NYC musician who emerged from a vegetative state after suffering a near fatal brain hemorrhage. The documentary included video clips from the rehabilitation center [...]
Posted in Comfort & Control, Living In Community on Jul 3rd, 2009 3 Comments »
Five years ago in the middle of the night on July 3rd, Bryan and I woke suddenly to a smoke filled house. My heart fluttered in my chest as the adrenaline washed through me, and I rushed into Ruthie’s room to snatch her from her crib. We quickly realized the fire was not in our [...]
Posted in Comfort & Control, Depression on Jun 24th, 2009 6 Comments »
“…God will not ask you to follow any biblical mandate without providing the grace and ability to carry it out.” – Lou Priolo, The Heart of Anger The other day I watched a substitute mail carrier drive up to our cluster of boxes, tinker around, then drive away. When I opened the box I saw [...]
Posted in Comfort & Control, Learning, Soundrack on Mar 31st, 2009 3 Comments »
We sing this song often in our church, but it became particularly relevant during the five weeks Bryan was out of work. It often seems that stress begets stress, and things began to fall apart a little between us in that season. We pressed through and we’re all good now, but I wouldn’t change a [...]
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