It's after 11 p.m. now. The Country Bunny and the Golden Shoes has been read aloud; we marveled at how the little country Cottontail bunny managed to get all those bunny children to do the household chores! The eggs are colored and hidden hither and yon outside. The chocolate bunnies are snug in their plastic eggy bubbles. The carrots we left out ( Read more... )

I have stuff I want to write about, but I'm currently drowning in work that is tricky and boring and freaking me out. [meta-data, master/slave, debian packages, Boolean, instantiated, Ubuntu, libmemcached, Perl, insert statements, incrementing] Gah! Please wish me luck this week: A huge mountain of editing must be done, and done well, before I can ( Read more... )

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This past week in the cabin in Tahoe was a nice break in the typical Wilson routine, even though a lot of routine came along with us: We still had to feed the children, bathe them, put them to bed on time, deal with colds and vomiting, small squabbles, pay attention to them, entertain them, etc. But, on the other hand, this past week I also got to ( Read more... )

It's Tuesday. We're vacationing in Tahoe at the cabin. Lucas and Asher have the week off school, so we've sequestered ourselves in this little house surrounded by white. I asked Lucas whether he thought the landscape looked more like someone had glopped whipped cream everywhere or sprinkled the world with powdered sugar. At first he answered ( Read more... )

I find it amusing that Lucas's first school project-complete with that special kind of School Project Stress-was the making of 30 valentines for his classmates and teachers. The teacher's letter was very clear about them NOT being store-bought valentines. I feel very glad that I managed to read that letter the day it was brought home because it ( Read more... )

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Thank you all so much for a wonderful Christmas party. The presence of our dear friends made the 14th annual Wilson holiday party a huge success! It was awesome seeing so many of you.

These recent post-Christmas days have been filled with drowsy mornings, playing with new toys, cleaning, laundry, textbook editing, and sifting through old belongings- ( Read more... )

The days are ticking down to the Solstice. It is finally, unequivocally cold here in the sunny Californian bread basket we call the Central Valley. Ice laced the leaves and ground this morning, making everything blue and quiet. I can sense the turning inward. I see it in the eyes of all of my boys. It's a tiredness of spirit and body. It's a ( Read more... )

Joy. That was the topic of today's sermon at UUSS. It was a good reminder that joy is always accessible to us, if we make the effort to be aware of our bodies, be in the present moment, relax, breathe, and smile. Doug, the senior minister, said something that really resonated for me: "Anxiety is excitement without the benefit of oxygen." In other ( Read more... )