Today, Hadley and Harper are eating Cheerios with milk, and an apple. I hate giving them cereal with milk because they spill it every time, but today they PROMISE they won’t, and as soon as the promise has been made Harper lifts a spoonful of Cheerios into her mouth and they promptly fall to the table. She then rearranges them… View Post

Enjoying – A french pressed cup of coffee in my new Intelligentsia Chicago mug. (Thank you, Mom and Dad!  Geoff!  Come over for coffee!) Listening to – Hadley and Harper tell me what they want for breakfast (waffles for Harper, hard boiled egg for Hadley). Reading – two books: The Christmas Plains by Joseph Bottum and Anything but Typical by… View Post

I take a notebook to church with me.  It’s something I’ve been trying to take along with me since our days in the South Bend CRC, when I saw the pastor’s wife sketching in a notebook  as he spoke.  “That’s so cool,” I thought, “To sketch what you’re listening to and thinking about.”  I wished I could’ve talked to her… View Post

Hadley’s taken to communicating through spelling.  One morning she asked, “Is my e-g-g ready?” I said, “Not y-e-t.” She gave me one of those smiles people give when they see you understand what they’re trying to say.  Those are the best smiles, aren’t they? The smiles of people able to speak the same language are some of my favorite. Harper… View Post

Thankful to have a spot to record some of it down. Thankful for those of you who read it now and then. On to the Christmas season we go!