Every day is complicated, messy, and full of friction. And every day has glorious or cozy moments worth celebrating. I seldom bother to chronicle the friction and the mess because writing time is fleeting and precious—and childhood even more so. I’d rather capture the small joys that I might forget—or take for granted—if I don’t take time to set them down in words.
(Excerpt from
this post about Real Life, quoted here because I don't want anyone to be under the impression that things are always perfect around here! Heaven knows we are anything but. Perfect, frictionless, orderly? Nope. Happy? Most of the time!)
- Beth: So help me, I am laughing so hard I have scared my children. Mamacrow ~ you did just say that, yes you did, I...
- Amy C.: I laughed . . . then I began to fear for you and your upcoming birth, attended by the person who permitted...
- Carmen L.: Had these pictures been up at my OB’s office, I would have chuckled at them at every visit. As I sit...
- Andrea: I Love You! LOL!
- Alice C: Oh, my! I love the names you gave them!
Be like the bird
Who, pausing in flight
On limb too slight,
Feels it give way beneath her,
Yet sings,
Knowing she has wings.
—Victor Hugo
Six Things to Include in Your Child's Day:
meaningful work
imaginative play
good books
beauty (art, music, nature)
ideas to ponder and discuss
prayer
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My husband and I spent the first five months of our relationship IM’ing back and forth between West Virginia and Delaware. All I can say is, yep, that’s exactly what its like. Long-distance relationships can work out! Good luck to you both.
Posted on September 7th, 2006 at 11:43 amElizabeth Foss says:
LOL! I laughed until I contracted. This is SO you two!
Posted on September 7th, 2006 at 11:48 amKatie says:
My husband was in Korea for the year before our wedding. Then on several deployments our first few years. Even after getting out of the army, we’ve had three long distance moves where’s he’s had to go on ahead. It’s hard, very hard. And if it don’t kill ya’, it really will make you stronger.
Posted on September 7th, 2006 at 12:54 pmSo far we haven’t been apart, except when I was overnight in the hospital; but my husband and I do IM each other from separate rooms of the house (instead of yelling across the house):
ME: Could you get me a glass of water?
(Can’t move, I’m feeding the baby.)
HIM: sure
Posted on September 7th, 2006 at 1:50 pmLOL!! Too funny. You two sound like a hoot.
Posted on September 7th, 2006 at 2:21 pmThat really cracked me up.
Especially since, geekily, I just loaded a google clock on my home page to tell me what time it is in Tokyo so I can figure out when my husband might be up to IM me.
yeah, did I mention that we just moved into a new house and they sent him to TOKYO and KOREA for a month or so? *sigh*
Posted on September 7th, 2006 at 3:15 pmToo funny!
Posted on September 7th, 2006 at 4:10 pmHow sweet and funny at the same time. Keep it up, so Elizabeth can have that baby!
Posted on September 7th, 2006 at 7:48 pmBeen there, done that. My husband and I met online in a Christian chat room seven years ago, in the early days of ICQ. We had hours and hours of conversations like that. We have random ones saved and occasionally we uncover them and get quite a laugh out of it. And recently I read about something called ‘couple-surfing’ which is a couple, each with their respective computers, sitting next to each other, surfing the internet, reading each other excerpts of what they find. We totally do that! Yes, we’re geeks. And we love it
Posted on September 7th, 2006 at 8:03 pmLOL! That is great!
Posted on September 8th, 2006 at 5:12 amThe LLama Butchers says:
If Jackson Browne weren’t a washed-up drunk he could write a funny song about this
Long distance love, geek style. The Jackson Browne title would have to be “Homeschooling juvie fiction writers and comic book editors in love.”…
Posted on September 8th, 2006 at 5:22 amI love it! My hubby and I IM back and forth like that too! We are total geeks.
Posted on September 8th, 2006 at 6:27 amSo funny! I looked at this just as I hung up from my hubby (who’s across the street in his office). We were simultaneously finding our house on the “wikimapia.org”.
Posted on September 8th, 2006 at 10:45 ammaybe you will someday be washed up drunk. so you write things you know about- being a goody-goody. how attractive
Posted on November 8th, 2007 at 3:47 amSaturday Miscellany | Melissa Wiley says:
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