About to head out to church camp with the preteens. Would appreciate your prayers for endurance, wisdom, and good temperament. Also that we will stay safe in the 100+ temperatures that are forecasted all weekend. And for spiritual growth for each of our campers.
May the grace and peace of Christ be with you all. I'll see you on Monday.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
v2, d387: Unfinished
I have a lot of blog posts started in my head, but none of them have come to a conclusion yet. Which, if the past is any indicator, means many of them will never come to be, especially after a weekend at preteen camp.
I will finish vacation write-ups after I get back.
Mostly, I'd like to reflect on how basically everything about my life is so radically different now that I haven't had a full-time job in the past three weeks. I know I've touched on it, but the whole situation has got my mind turning over the idea of Change. I'm talking Big-C Change, major Change. Paradigm-shift Change. Moving away from home, having kids, amputating a leg, buying a goldfish. You know. That sorta stuff. Because really, since I left the players, everything has changed. My schedule, my priorities, my friendships, my energy level, my financial health. Everything. Some of it has hurt. Some of it has caused others to hurt. Some has healed. Some has helped others. Some has neither hurt nor healed yet, but believe me it's going to before too long. And a lot of it is just different.
It's a wacky thing, Big-C Change, and I don't think you can really wrap your mind around it sufficiently until after the Change has become the new norm. Which, I guess, is why I can't come to a tidy conclusion the more I think about it.
So for now, we'll leave this blog post unfinished. Maybe I'll have something more definitive around time for my Year-In-Review.
I will finish vacation write-ups after I get back.
Mostly, I'd like to reflect on how basically everything about my life is so radically different now that I haven't had a full-time job in the past three weeks. I know I've touched on it, but the whole situation has got my mind turning over the idea of Change. I'm talking Big-C Change, major Change. Paradigm-shift Change. Moving away from home, having kids, amputating a leg, buying a goldfish. You know. That sorta stuff. Because really, since I left the players, everything has changed. My schedule, my priorities, my friendships, my energy level, my financial health. Everything. Some of it has hurt. Some of it has caused others to hurt. Some has healed. Some has helped others. Some has neither hurt nor healed yet, but believe me it's going to before too long. And a lot of it is just different.
It's a wacky thing, Big-C Change, and I don't think you can really wrap your mind around it sufficiently until after the Change has become the new norm. Which, I guess, is why I can't come to a tidy conclusion the more I think about it.
So for now, we'll leave this blog post unfinished. Maybe I'll have something more definitive around time for my Year-In-Review.
Monday, July 25, 2011
v2, d386: A) and B)
Hello friends. I didn't blog all weekend. That is because A) Saturday, Tarvis the Awesome set up a night out to see Captain America, which was pretty good and featured an Avengers teaser after the credits, and B) I accidentally went to sleep at about 9:30 on Sunday. Woke at five this morning and had a pretty good day.
I also won't be blogging the back half of this week, because I'm leaving on Thursday morning with eight preteens and two other adults to go to church camp. Thursday through Monday. Starting at 7:00 a.m. every day and going till lights out at 11:00 p.m. Pray for me.
So you'd think I'd have lots of good blogging for you today to make up for it, but I don't because A) I've spent a good amount of time working on my book blog already today (still haven't finished the entry) and I'm getting 'over' blogging for today, and B) what I have to share is far better than anything I could say anyway.
This is on my heart tonight. It's Colossians 3: 12-17.
"12 So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience; 13 bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you. 14 Beyond all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity. 15 Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 17 Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father."
So much good stuff packed in there.
I also won't be blogging the back half of this week, because I'm leaving on Thursday morning with eight preteens and two other adults to go to church camp. Thursday through Monday. Starting at 7:00 a.m. every day and going till lights out at 11:00 p.m. Pray for me.
So you'd think I'd have lots of good blogging for you today to make up for it, but I don't because A) I've spent a good amount of time working on my book blog already today (still haven't finished the entry) and I'm getting 'over' blogging for today, and B) what I have to share is far better than anything I could say anyway.
This is on my heart tonight. It's Colossians 3: 12-17.
"12 So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience; 13 bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you. 14 Beyond all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity. 15 Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 17 Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father."
So much good stuff packed in there.
Friday, July 22, 2011
v2, d385: 1996
Hi everyone. Welcome to 1996. Home of Joe Sakic and the Stanley Cup Champion Colorado Avalanche. (Tricky to find some music videos from 1996, by the way)
Thank you good night.
Thank you good night.
Thursday, July 21, 2011
v2, d384: FeverGate
Putting "Gate" after anything makes it sound more exciting.
Can't type long tonight, because I'm working on putting together a "professional" web site, but I thought I ought to check in and let everybody know that Robbie's fever went down this morning and stayed down, so we didn't have to go back to the doctor. So, praise the Lord for that.
Can't type long tonight, because I'm working on putting together a "professional" web site, but I thought I ought to check in and let everybody know that Robbie's fever went down this morning and stayed down, so we didn't have to go back to the doctor. So, praise the Lord for that.
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
v2, d383: Disappointment!
Well, the news from here is still pretty bad, as Robbie's temperature finally dipped below 100 right around dinner only to shoot back up to 102 in time for bed. Back to the doctor we go.
So to lighten up the mood around here, I made y'all another crossword puzzle!!! But, I'm having trouble getting it posted onto here in a way that you can actually read the numbers...I'll keep trying. It's been a long while since we've had some good clean crossword fun around here.
So to lighten up the mood around here, I made y'all another crossword puzzle!!! But, I'm having trouble getting it posted onto here in a way that you can actually read the numbers...I'll keep trying. It's been a long while since we've had some good clean crossword fun around here.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
v2, d382: Not a high point
Today was a rough day. Robbie still has a pretty intense fever (it was 102.8 as of about 4:30 this afternoon) and Isaac is still just as demanding as when he's the only kid around. Also, they tag-teamed it so that one would wake up moments after I'd get the other to settle down for a rest. As a result, the dishes and laundry I hoped to get at today didn't necessarily get done. Also also, as I finally settled down to bed at about three this morning (because that is, it appears, just the way I roll these days), Robbie suddenly woke, screaming that there were bugs in his room and asking me to squish them, so I didn't get to sleep until about four.
Kim was, of course, awesome today, going into work late so I wouldn't have to wake up at seven-thirty like I usually do, and giving me a brief rest period after she got home from work, but the day, on the whole, was just pretty rough.
That said, it wasn't bad. Just hard. Hopefully tomorrow will be a little bit easier.
Signs your 4-year-old may be watching a little too much Wall-E:
--You're playing airplane with him, and you get to be the pilot. You're awfully tired, though, so you tell him you're just going to turn on the auto-pilot and close your eyes for a bit. "Don't do that!" he says. "Why not?" you ask. "Because I don't WANT you to do that," he replies. "Why don't you WANT me to do that?" you ask, reasonably enough. "Well," he says as though it should be obvious, "I did watch that one movie."
--You ask him to pick up some papers from the floor in his bedroom and throw them away. He scrambles down the hallway. A minute later, he returns with a bulge under his shirt. He goes to the trash can, opens his shirt, and dumps the trash in before going to get some more.
--You are sitting in the doctor's office, waiting (of course). You've been waiting for quite a while. "I don't want to wait any more," he whines. "We have to," you say. "The doctor will be here as soon as she can." "But I don't want to just sit here," he complains. "I wanna live!"
Kim was, of course, awesome today, going into work late so I wouldn't have to wake up at seven-thirty like I usually do, and giving me a brief rest period after she got home from work, but the day, on the whole, was just pretty rough.
That said, it wasn't bad. Just hard. Hopefully tomorrow will be a little bit easier.
Signs your 4-year-old may be watching a little too much Wall-E:
--You're playing airplane with him, and you get to be the pilot. You're awfully tired, though, so you tell him you're just going to turn on the auto-pilot and close your eyes for a bit. "Don't do that!" he says. "Why not?" you ask. "Because I don't WANT you to do that," he replies. "Why don't you WANT me to do that?" you ask, reasonably enough. "Well," he says as though it should be obvious, "I did watch that one movie."
--You ask him to pick up some papers from the floor in his bedroom and throw them away. He scrambles down the hallway. A minute later, he returns with a bulge under his shirt. He goes to the trash can, opens his shirt, and dumps the trash in before going to get some more.
--You are sitting in the doctor's office, waiting (of course). You've been waiting for quite a while. "I don't want to wait any more," he whines. "We have to," you say. "The doctor will be here as soon as she can." "But I don't want to just sit here," he complains. "I wanna live!"
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