Okay, all you book lovers. My pastor asked me if I would clean out, weed, and otherwise improve our church library. I have a modest budget to work with and I need to spend it in the next few weeks or I’ll lose it at the end of the fiscal year. So I need to …
Call it cocooning, hunkering down, being a homebody, or whatever. It is me. And it especially describes my life over the past ten years or so. Now I’ve discovered it has yet another name: dwelling. From What consumers do in a downturn: Roughly speaking, consumers have two modalities: surging and dwelling. In the surging modality, …
I’ve got about a dozen different titles I thought about for this post, but now that we will be living in the land of intimidation, censorship and such, I’ve decided against them. What is there to say? People can celebrate the results of this election, but personally I would weep if I had any tears. …
A reader sent this to me and since she hasn’t blogged about the election on her own blog, I’m not going to identify her (unless she wants to do so herself). From The Obama Temptation. Bold mine: I honestly never thought we’d see such a thing in our country – not yet anyway – but …
Amy linked to a sobering piece by Randy Alcorn entitled I’m not Voting for a Man, I’m Voting for Generations of Children and their Right to Live. I’ll try to restrain myself and only share a few paragraphs so you will read the rest. All of the bolds are mine. Yesterday someone else left a …
(Reader’s mind races… What is EEF? Didn’t I read about that online? Or was it on the news? Maybe it was in USA Today. Is it serious? Is it life-threatening?) 😯 I bet you are suffering from it, too. EEF is Election and Economy Fatigue. (Yes, I just coined it this afternoon.) 😀 Blech. I’m …
Yes, you read that right. $800+ A MONTH. It was like the planets aligned this week for me. (If I believed in that kind of stuff, which I don’t.) But still. All I have to do is hope Obama wins. Forget everything I said about voting for McCain. Because, you know, it’s all about the …
If you’ve read my blog for a bit, you might remember that we were sick a lot last winter. I was sick more in a few months than I was in multiple years prior. Having an infant/toddler will do that to you. This year.. I. AM. READY. Ginger ale? Check. Crackers? Check. Cold and Flu …
Caroline turned two a couple of weeks ago. We don’t have any good pictures to share from that day. (We really are not very talented picture takers, unfortunately.) However, this morning we went to the Meijer Gardens and did get a few good shots. Caroline is a big girl. She’s still almost off the charts …
Feel free to leave a comment, even if you disagree with me. However, if you surfed your way here by searching out election-related blog entries, just know my longstanding policy is to delete anything that is not kind. Disagree nicely and you’ll see it here. Disagree rudely and you’ll be deleted. So I mentioned before …
This is so good I have to put it here for posterity’s sake. This comment was left by TC on Amy’s “A woman’s highest calling” discussion: So much of the Church – reformed and otherwise – has fallen into the fundamentalist, legalist trap. Man likes laws and rules and regulations, because by them we can …
It is my natural bent to be very aware of my faults and failings. So it is good for me to step back at times and remind myself of what I have done well. I was recently thinking about our first two years with Caroline and reflecting on what we’ve done well. A part of …
