Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on May 31st, 2007 1 Comment »
We have officially survived day two. Jana Peiffer tried to convince me that we had successfully conquered day two, but I don’t believe her.
No, honestly, things are going very well. The children are behaving well for me and the four children under four are playing nicely together. For the most part, at least. Justice [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on May 30th, 2007 2 Comments »
I don’t know why I entitled this series Road Trip when the whole point is that I’m not going anywhere. Or maybe it’s that a road trip the the defining feature of my life in the short term. Or maybe it’s just wishful thinking. Or maybe it’s the penguins.
Be that as it may, today [...]
Posted in Friends & Family, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on May 28th, 2007 No Comments »
“Life. Don’t talk to me about life.”
I think I’ve quoted Marvin the Paranoid Android before. There is also a Babylon 5 quote that goes something like “You have just given me what could be the biggest challenge of my life. Thank you! (pause) I don’t know why I’m thanking you, but there it is.” [...]
Posted in Around Town, Gabrielle, Not Much of Anything on May 24th, 2007 1 Comment »
Raquel and I take a walk most every weekday. We have established our usual route mostly by accident. It’s just the places to walk that work the best. Sometimes we go crazy and walk a different way, but we try to keep those times special.
Our usual route takes us past the corner of Bestor [...]
Posted in Friends & Family, Not Much of Anything, Raquel on May 23rd, 2007 4 Comments »
Monday was Samuel’s birthday, and we celebrated with a Heroscape party. Theresa molded chocolate inside Heroscape terrain pieces and used those to decorate the cake. Some colored coconut on top of the pieces gave us different kinds of terrain, and she added blue food coloring to some white chocolate for the river pieces.
Moriah dressed [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Not Much of Anything on May 19th, 2007 1 Comment »
For accidentally sleeping in too late, for good books and sunny steps to read them on, for games we play where everyone has fun, for good food that little people finish, for toddler boys in Winnie-the-Pooh pajamas and for television shows without commercials. That’s why I say thanks everyday.
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on May 18th, 2007 1 Comment »
I watched a couple fight the other day. I thought it was very sweet.
See, he had thrown his back out and was only walking with the help of a staff. It was also Mother’s Day so he wanted his wife to have a chance to sit down and relax. This was fine until their [...]
Posted in For Amusement Purposes Only, Friends & Family, Life, Children and Dishes, Raquel on May 16th, 2007 2 Comments »
 My father’s birthday was just over a week ago. In a devoloping tradition of mine, he did not recieve his present yesterday. While some traditions are rather charming and ought to be upheld, such as my attempt to open the locked door every time I start to to leave the Ben-Ezra’s house, the late birthday [...]
Posted in I learned something new today, Life, Children and Dishes, On Being Single, Rants & Rambles, Raquel on May 15th, 2007 3 Comments »
Something’s been nagging at the edges of my mind for a while. I identified it as feeling that it was time to get married. I struggled to put words to it, because obviously, it’s not as though I have arrived at a state of perfection. But in some indefinable way it felt like I was [...]
Posted in Friends & Family, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on May 14th, 2007 1 Comment »
Yesterday was Mother’s Day. Happy Mother’s Day all you mothers! After worship yesterday a sweet woman named Kim came up to me and gave me a hug and said she had been thinking of me. I stared at her blankly until it sunk in. Mother’s Day. My mother is dead. This would normally be a [...]