Aaron walked up to me today with his blue blanket draped over one arm and I told him he looked like Jesus. So we started playing that I was a woman with a sick child in need of healing, and I pleaded repeatedly with Aaron/Jesus to come and heal my baby. Aaron got really self-conscious… Continue reading Prosperity Gospel
Category: Family
Happy Day
In the span of just over a week, our family will celebrate my birthday, Elijah will turn one, my sister’s new baby’s will be born, and Mercy will turn four. It is a bit of a marathon, really, but what a reminder of how very much I have to be thankful for. I am heading… Continue reading Happy Day
Fun times after church
Sunday after church we headed to a nearby restaurant to grab lunch with our good friends. As we arrived and found street parking, I sent Doug and the baby and Mercy to go in and grab us a table while I changed Aaron’s drinking-fountain-soaked shirt in the back of the van. I had barely finished… Continue reading Fun times after church
School mom
I have a blogging friend I really appreciate who posts periodically about her mishaps in negotiating parenting kids in school: things like forgetting picture day or failing to order the needed school supplies. I have always read these posts and smiled but not related, until now. Mercy started preschool two weeks ago, and I feel… Continue reading School mom
Change
Transition is in the air. Mercy started preschool this past week at a little Catholic school a few blocks away. The nuns are delightful and Mercy seems to be enjoying her experience very much. Elijah has started walking and talking. And at his physical yesterday, he weighed in at a not-so-modest twenty-seven pounds. My mom… Continue reading Change
School
Mercy started preschool this week to her great delight. It is a Catholic school in our neighborhood run by resident nuns, and today I was telling Mercy about a conversation I had with one of her teachers. When I was done I asked Mercy if she liked Sister Zina and she said that she did.… Continue reading School
Our little Ophelias
A few weeks back, my friend Christine posted an excerpt from an L.A. Times article that included a bunch of statistics released by the YWCA concerning women and girls and issues of image, beauty and societal pressure. I remember reading it and being sobered by the pervasive acceptance of plastic surgery as well as by… Continue reading Our little Ophelias
Ignorance as bliss?
I went to the mall today with the big kids and Doug’s sister. I had a pair of shoes for Aaron to exchange that had been a gift, and another pair I had purchased for him in Seattle that needed to be returned. Our first stop was a Croc’s kiosk where Aaron got to pick… Continue reading Ignorance as bliss?
We’ve gone green
Our family is completely under the spell of the Wicked soundtrack at the moment. Every time we get in the car, the cries arise from the back seat: “Put on Wicked!” “Wicked, please!” “Put on the starting part!” The kids have their favorite songs and lines, and I am amazed at how many of the… Continue reading We’ve gone green
Mood lighting
The other day I went into the bathroom with Aaron, and I automatically reached up and flipped on the light switch. “No, Mommy!” Aaron said, as he reached up and turned off the light. Just as I was about to argue the wisdom of him using the bathroom in the dark, Aaron moved his hand… Continue reading Mood lighting