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Making pudding. Mmmm….
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March 2011
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Heavenly Mother
You will be like a child that is nursed by its mother. I will comfort you as a mother comforts her child.               Isaiah 66:12-13 Every morning we sit here on the couch, or in bed, or, well, even in the middle of a coffee shop, for this intimate time together. (Sometimes it embarrasses other people, but it’s only natural. We can be discreet, though, so we don’t scare anyone ...
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February 2011
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January 2011
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Hiccups, or, On Suffering
My daughter is banging her head against my pelvis. From the inside. Soon she’ll be kicking my ribs too. I can’t blame her, though; it’s got to be uncomfortable to have hiccups in low gravity, your entire body jerking to an involuntary rhythm. I might kick a little too if the hiccups sent me slamming into the nearest wall. My son is not a big fan of the hiccups either. He’s big enough to be...
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December 2010
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November 2010
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Nov 30th
The Story
         Uncle Chad called from base last week. Icy Lake Michigan was out his windows and we were driving through the northern pines for a visit to Grandpa and Nana. It being only weeks before Christmas, Chad got on speakerphone and asked Sören what he wanted from his uncle. “Hey, Sören—what do you want for Christmas?” “A bell.” “Okay, buddy,” Chad said. “I guess I’ll ask another time.” We...
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October 2010
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Soren Turns 3
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September 2010
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Thank you Wild and Bethel’s CDC for free tickets!
Sep 30th
Theology 101
We’re tramping through the woods this morning. Hunting deer. “I’m a hunter,” Sören says. “You be the deer, mama. Then you die and we eat you.” “Uh. Okay, hunter.” At least I’m just blandly dying—rather than my own son stalking and premeditating killing me. (I’m learning to take what I can get.) The vast forest of our quest is the lilac hedge between our yard and Miss Heather’s, a two-foot swath of...
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Harvest at Crofut Vineyard
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Harvesting Hops
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Renaissance Festival
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Fairy Ella reviving Michael while Soren runs circles, and runs circles, and runs circles…
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August 2010
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Up North
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Learning the play baseball with Grandpa.
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