Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Quotes on Aug 31st, 2007 No Comments »
There is a saying that goes something like “Before enlightenment- chopping wood and hauling water. After enlightenment- chopping wood and hauling water.” It is very true.
Posted in I learned something new today, Rants & Rambles, Raquel on Aug 30th, 2007 3 Comments »
 For most of my life I’ve thought that it would be a lot simpler if I had one all consuming interest. You know, the one thing that I would obsess about and I would know that I could serve God best by just working on the this one thing and studying it. For a lot [...]
Posted in Raquel, Real Life Quotes on Aug 30th, 2007 No Comments »
A short collection of recent quotes:
“There’s not much you can do with a sock and rubber band!”
“You need to put away your math book now, and come empty the dishwasher.” (It needs to be understood that this happened on a Saturday afternoon, when the culprit had apparently opted for some recreational math.)
“I’m juggling too many [...]
Posted in For Amusement Purposes Only, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Aug 28th, 2007 2 Comments »
“I quit!” I said as I walked down the stairs. “I just quit! I am going to march up to Seth and Crystal and inform them I quit. And there is nothing they can do to make me change my mind!” I figure once a day is enough for any toddler to strip his diaper [...]
Posted in All About Words, I learned something new today, Projects, Raquel on Aug 27th, 2007 3 Comments »
Theresa mentioned on her blog that she’s starting a new writing curriculum with the children. I’m sitting in on the exercises (hup, two, three… no wait, wrong kind of exercises), the first one of which was to fill out a questionnaire about writing preferences and write a vignette about someone. Probably the most interesting question [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Poems and Stories, Rants & Rambles on Aug 23rd, 2007 1 Comment »
I am in the middle of writing a story. I’ve been in the middle of writing this story for about a month now. And I just don’t want to go back to it. I know what will happen next; it isn’t that hard to describe. But it’s heart-breaking. And I just don’t want to go [...]
Posted in Friends & Family, Gabrielle, Thoughts About Heaven on Aug 21st, 2007 No Comments »
I have been wanting to write a post about this restaurant we ate at while we were on our trip, but somehow the words haven’t been lining up for me. I was very happy to see then that James had written the post I’d wanted to. Enjoy.
Posted in I learned something new today, Life, Children and Dishes, Raquel on Aug 15th, 2007 1 Comment »
I don’t swim. I’m rather fond of water, but only up to a point, and that point is about at my chin. Wandering around in shoulder high water is rather fun. Putting my face underwater is a horrible experience, not because of the actual water, but because of the suffocating panic which assures me [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, On Being Single, Rants & Rambles on Aug 14th, 2007 3 Comments »
I just noticed, and not for the first time, that we have a category called Thoughts About Being Single. If you click on this link you will find eight posts. Together, Raquel and I have written over seven hundred posts. There are a hundred and seventeen posts on Friends and Family, seventy-six posts on Poems [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Rants & Rambles, Raquel, Thoughts About Heaven on Aug 14th, 2007 No Comments »
I’m told turnabout is fairplay. To that I say whatever, but I ran across this post Raquel had written and decided it should really be posted. When I asked her about she said she thought it needed a complete rewrite. I talked her down off of that ledge mostly by being loud (over IM no [...]