Family News

Sorry it’s been so long since I’ve written here.
A lot’s been going on, but I’ve waited because none of it “stable” enough for me to write about it; to set in stone as “reality.”
But now I figure if I wait till it’s all at that level I might not remember enough to record a bunch [...]

Elisha was stung today: five times.
A group of children were playing outside the church after services today and they ran into a wasp nest. Elisha was stung between fingers on both hands (one each) the thumb and bicep of his right arm.
Natasha was stung too, on her leg under her skirt.  Melody came down with [...]

I can nearly recite all of Kipling’s The Elephant’s Child, except for the bit about his journey to the Limpopo.
My favorite bit is, The next day, when there was nothing left of the equinoxes (for the procession had proceeded according to precedent)…
I had the entertainment of reciting long chucks of it to my kids while [...]

Let’s see… I’m not sure If I can make this short or interesting, but there were enough details that I felt the need to write them down.
Last Monday Jay left early in the morning, and after he left I read an e-mail from my mother that she and my dad had driven to Anchorage because [...]

Last week Jay hurt his back when he brought the tree up from under the house.
His hurt wasn’t on my mind that evening, but, like I sometimes do, I changed into a nice dress right before Jay got home. The girls of course were thrilled and begged me to help them into dresses also, [...]

We took the kids to a playgroud last Saturday morning. There was a family of three kids already there, the oldest brother (maybe 10) seemed to be vaguely in-charge and eager to converse with an adult (hey, that’s me!).
He asked if that school was where my kids went. I said they weren’t old [...]

Was gone much of the last week for our last (immediate) family wedding.
Random “over-heards” from the weekend.
A tee-shirt on the groom:
No, I don’t have a girlfriend.
But a know a girl who would be pretty upset if she heard me say that.
After the wedding:
60-something uncle: So, [Groom] what are you planning on doing tonight?
Unbelieving stare [...]

I can’t remember if I mentioned it before, but I recieved a scholarship for the Summer Arts Festival’s storytelling class.
This was very cool because I wouldn’t have been able to go otherwise.
The combination of personalities and beliefs creates an interesting chemistry.  Elisha’s been sleeping poorly again, and my awareness is  being filtered through that tiredness, [...]

And in our own defense, when we’re not sleep-deprived we do remember.
We were at a wedding reception tonight where the main course was pulled-pork. We put the sandwiches together ourselves at a buffet-style table where there was also coleslaw to put on top of the meat. All this was very new to me.
Really, [...]

When Elisha was approaching a year I had this exchange with Nate V while we were getting ready to leave the church.
Me: It is so awesome to watch Elisha develop an attachment to his daddy. He’ll be lunging and calling for Jay as soon as he walks in the door. It’s so nice [...]