This is the last semester of school for my cohort as only me and one other are continuing on to get the MDiv. instead of stopping with the MAML. The school purposefully puts us in certain classes at the "end" because of the built amount of trust we have with each other as well as to launch us on healthy, steady footing. We are taking ( Read more... )

Christmas morning the boys laid in bed with Auntie Hannah (Hantie Nanna) and Uncle Robby (Wobby) while waiting for me and Shaun to come back over for the unwrapping of gifts. The boys decided to tell them about their farts including this; "One time I farted while sitting in the chair next to daddy and it sounded like a whip. Whapish ( Read more... )

I have an insatiable appetite for head colds it seems. The mother of all sinus infections was eventually slain only to allow for another head cold to take up residence inside my head as of yesterday. Fortunately there isn't any fever (that I have caught in the act at least) but the throat is under attack. I have whipped out the tea and honey as ( Read more... )

I am very impressed with myself whilst at the same time surprised. I managed to stay up until midnight the other night, relatively coherently I might add! And then the next morning I slept till noon, which is also rather odd. It was fun ( Read more... )

Thanks giving weekend was the last weekend we needed to give to someone else. I was expecting to feel relieved and happy that for the next month there is not one single obligation on our calendar, and I do a little bit. But mostly I am sick (cold and then sinus infection) and kinda depressed. I honestly think that one weekend was one weekend to ( Read more... )

The younger of my spawn is turning 5 years old ( Read more... )

My boys are awesome ( Read more... )

Oh, the irony. Just when I finish writing about how lovely it will be to rest, the bathroom splodes. Although, it is partly our own fault because when we fix thing we do it right and would rather get it all done rather than half done... and if I hadn't of been in such a tizzy over the mold growing UNDER the caulking I was replacing we wouldn't ( Read more... )

I can feel Autumn soaking into my bones, and I love it. Oooo! And I just looked out my window and its sprinkling! Yippee!!! (I missed the first big storm of the season when I went up to Portland for school. *pout ( Read more... )

I am often asked by friends and colleagues about my involvement in "church" and have decided that the blundering around the proverbial bush needs to stop and I instead should be able to articulate where I am at. Here is an attempt, although probably a bit long winded ( Read more... )