“He sings so…..so…..so…..singing!” From Aaron, near speechless, while catching a few moments of American Idol tonight.
Category: Family
And then there’s the Baron…
Mercy has started a weekly piano class with kids from the neighborhood, taught by our good friend from church. They haven’t touched the piano yet (these are three and four year olds), but have been using songs and games to learn about notes and the staff and treble clefs and the like. One week Mercy… Continue reading And then there’s the Baron…
She’s smart, this one…
Mercy is three and recently she has become fascinated by words and how they are spelled. She will sound out every word she sees and ask me to spell everything. This is of course very cute and sweet, and as a lover of language and words I encourage her at every step. That is until… Continue reading She’s smart, this one…
Happy 24
I knew my brother for three years before he became my brother. I was young, he was just a kid, and those three years hold for me some of my most precious memories. Cruising around Chicago in the Urban Outreach van; making phone calls for him to the girl he liked (whose father did not… Continue reading Happy 24
The power of the unseen
The other night I went to take the trash out down the two flights of stairs behind our house to the big cans out back. The kitchen trash was very full: it should have been taken out days earlier and I could barely lift the plastic handled bag out from the trash can. As I… Continue reading The power of the unseen
Did anyone see any fish?
On Saturday, we drove down to the Long Beach Aquarium to meet up with our good friends, Steven and Jennifer and their little baby Evan. Our kids love the aquarium, and we have been members since we had Mercy. The day was a little bit crazy. Between all of the feedings and changings and trips… Continue reading Did anyone see any fish?
Deliver Me
Living in L.A., it is not uncommon to see people with clothing or accessories bearing logos from different film or television productions. So many people here have some connection to “the industry”, and their baseball caps and messenger bags and bomber jackets let you know it. Yesterday the doorbell rang and I was greeted with… Continue reading Deliver Me
This one’s for you, Julia
This morning we were sitting watching a Thomas the Tank Engine video that Doug and Mercy checked out from the library. The narrator described one of the engines as being “cross”. Mercy turned to me knowingly and said: “Cross is angry….in German.”
The Garden
Today we went to one of our favorite little getaway spots here in L.A.: the Huntington Gardens in Pasadena. We are members and we love strolling through the Desert Garden and letting the kids run like crazy through the giant fields and talking to the lion statues that guard the entrance to the Japanese Garden.… Continue reading The Garden
Them bones
I had a great conversation the other day with someone dear to us about the impact our communities have on who our kids become. He was arguing that the community itself plays a much greater role than the parents: something I am not sure I believe. In light of this, he was describing their struggle… Continue reading Them bones