For the first time in sixteen years, and for only the second time in my life, I am catless ( Read more... )

Fancy died yesterday. I found her by the garage after putting the children to bed; don't know how long she'd been there. My poor laughing trickster kitty-cat. She won't ever bitch me out for being late with dinner again. Dug a hole, set her in. Said some words. Something like ( Read more... )

The sheer level of crazy in my life can be deduced from the fact that the following post was written in early December, and is only actually getting copy/pasted into lj now, in late May. Aye, yi, yi ( Read more... )

Said by Child the Elder following one of several discussions about the recent death of his great-grandmother, with particular reference to my statement that everyone has a time to die: "And when all the humans are dead, then the dinosaurs can come back." "We're taking turns, are we?" I asked. He nodded decisively. "It's fair," he said. The boy ( Read more... )

This has apparently been a weekend for philsophizing; assisted, no doubt, by the need to stay home with my younger kid, who was wrestling with dairrhea on Friday and therefore could not go to daycare. It says something about my life that spending the day with a toddler experiencing intermittent explosive diarrhea was one of the most relaxing (and ( Read more... )

I was correct in the last entry -- Grandma was making her final approach to death ( Read more... )

As slice-of-life journal entries go, this one is actually a fairly poor example, because this week has (thankfully) been a bit more extreme than the usual ( Read more... )

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At church the other week, the preacher mentioned Matthew 17:20 - “if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move.” He only touched on the verse in passing, but it got me thinking. I occasionally wonder if I ought to be thinking more about what the preachers actually say; but ( Read more... )

Last week's sermon was particularly interesting to me, so I wanted to write down a few of the preacher's thoughts, along with a few of my own. We're unpacking the story of Jesus calming the storm, Matthew 8:23-27 ( Read more... )