Posted in Church Year, Raising kids on May 3rd, 2011
Today, I took my kids to the toy store—Jack wanted to buy a space shuttle with the allowance money he’s saved. He hadn’t had the toy five minutes when Jane asked to play with it. To my surprise, he let her. To my further surprise, after she’d played with it for a couple minutes, Jane [...]
Posted in Church Year on Apr 26th, 2011
I was so impressed by the success of our family’s Lenten tree that I decided to do yet another crafty-wafty thing. Years ago, someone at my mom’s group made an Easter garden, and I thought it was a cool idea, but I never did it myself because I’m not artsy-fartsy. That was my excuse anyway. [...]
Posted in Church Year on Apr 24th, 2011
The Easter Jack was two, his Sunday School teacher brought a huge bouquet of helium balloons and let each child choose one to take home. Jack chose red. Proudly and joyfully, he carried his bobbing balloon down the church hallway to the Fellowship Hall, where Doug and I stopped to chat with our associate pastor, [...]
I am a reader (I feel about books the way some people feel about chocolate: yum), a writer (I've written a book, even: The Circle of Seasons: Meeting God in the Church Year), and a mother (of four). So that's what I blog about: reading, writing, and raising my kids.