Caught some of the news tonight. 100 people died when a fuel truck overturned and people were trying to gather the fuel for themselves and their shelters burned. The kids in the community who died were watching soccer.
A speedboat inside a houseboat. People injured, one person died.
My friend in Rwanda is working [...]
So many blessings.
So much change.
So many looming questions – and so much of us “surviving” the everyday.
As I look back at this year the one thing that comes to mind, over and over again is OVERWHELMED. Granted, probably anyone in our shoes would feel that way, not just a person with bouts of depression (that [...]
Children and Family, Claire, Sabrina, Savannah, Sean, Thinking
THE LONG SESSION
Be sure, however, that you provide more than enough wine. To run out of wine is less excusable than to run short of food. For a true dinner party, the absolute minimum is ¾ bottle per person, not counting the apértif. Eight completely moderate souls will, over three [...]
Water in Excelsis
My airport isn’t working properly on my computer. I think it’s because, for the last month or so, I’ve spent too much time on my computer while in bed – and I recall, about a month ago, that my lap started getting overly warm every time I used my computer (to the [...]
I really shouldn’t be doing anything on the computer right now. Heck, even the airport isn’t working properly so I can’t lay in bed and chat (I have to uncomfortably sit in the office/kitchen chair). But I’m just thinking way too much. Nothing entertaining, unfortunately.
Tonight we have a viewing. Someone who [...]
This is a response I started to write to Regina’s blog today. I have about 5 drafts of things that I’ve started to write, all in response to how Mrs “Stodmor” has made me think. So, instead of filling her comments with all the things I was going to say…
Goosebumps yet again. I think [...]
Ken and the kids (all 4 of them) gave me a P&S camera with video capabilities today. In the last couple weeks our not-so-cheap digital video camera decided to give us some static so we’ve not been able to catch Claire smiling “live.” Not that I was able to today, I’m still just trying to [...]
At 7:08 the midwife did arrive, and as I explained Jen’s symptoms her face changed and she sprinted up the stairs. She checked Jen out and promptly said, “You won’t make the hospital. You’re going to have the baby here.”
When we last left our story, baby Claire had given some dramatic signs that she was ready to move herself out the comfortable yet confining space of Jen’s womb and into the larger world around her. More specifically, Jen’s water broke. I say dramatic, but here I’m probably guilty of using hyperbole to heighten the [...]
In some ways this blog starts at the end. Not the end, end, (hopefully there is much more of life to come) but definitely the end of a significant time in the existence of Ken and Jen as a couple. If I were to break our lives into chapters I would refer to this last [...]