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Outer Banks Vacation
The last week of May we* all drove 12 hours from Toledo/Boston/Birmingham and met at a HUGEmongous house in Nags Head, NC.
This was our house: http://www.outerbanksvacations.com/rental/house.html?ID=382&Avail=20130526&Stay=7&User=SSV3254
It was even better in person.
The List:
- Ticks
- This house is huge! Run around giddy like children
- Spaghetti ( Read more... ) -
Portals to the Sublime
The inevitable 'gush' came in spurts after the concert; immediately following and then on the drive home the next morning. I posted more pics than anyone cares about on my Facebook and I keep flipping through them trying to relive it. I'm currently in the melancholy stage of this whole affair and I only just now have the time to write out my ( Read more... ) -
VIP Passes and Shiny Toy Guns!
A couple months ago Coyla and I purchased our VIP passes for the Shiny Toy Guns concert on April 18, 2013 ( Read more... ) -
Blank Box
Is this place going to feel like home someday ( Read more... ) -
A Promise
"It is not good for us to take too seriously the many untoward experiences we have with ourselves in meditation. It is here that our old vanity and our illicit claims upon God may creep in by a pious detour, as if it were our right to have nothing but elevating and fruitful experiences, and as if the discovery of our own inner poverty were quite ( Read more... ) -
The Year 2012
January 2012
- New Year's tradition with the Zeislofts in Pittsburgh
- 3 year anniversary of mom's death
- Began attending Contemplative Prayer Group at Dayspring
- Trinity began ballet
- Applying for jobs
February 2012
- Applying for jobs!
March 2012
- Took Trinity to see a free Shiny Toy Guns concert in Austin
- Applying for jobs
April 2012 ( Read more... ) -
Shootings
When these things happen I try to imagine how it gets to that point for someone - that they are so disillusioned or filled with hate that they can actually walk into a school and start shooting children. When I heard the news of the Connecticut shooting a half-hour ago I immediately began to cry and just began crying out to God the normal " ( Read more... ) -
Things Nathan says...
Nathan: "Mom, I don't want to grow up ( Read more... ) -
Being Santa
Ah, Christmas - the most gluttonous time of year ( Read more... )