God's Love

For the love of God will transform you.  When the love of God is through with you, you will be shot through with his light.  You will be changed into something you never expected to be. You will be what he planned you to be from the beginning-- the only one of you in the universe. (166 Mathewes-Green).  

I'm loving this message today.

A Timely Reminder

'Do what you can calmly and gently. Do not be disturbed about what you cannot manage yourself. God is well pleased with the earnestness and moderate anxiety with which we attend to our obligations, but He is not pleased with that anxiety which afflicts the soul, because He wishes our limitations and weakness to seek the support of His strength and omnipotence, with the trust in His goodness He will supply what is lacking to our weakness and shortcomings.'

-St Ignatius of Loyola

Stolen from an old role model

Not Sleeping

Nora's bedtime ramblings (imagine these interspersed with kicking her heels against her mattress and banging a toy on the bars of her crib:

"Jonah eat it.  He's an idiot.  No, he's not.   Blitzkrieg Bop.  Let's say prayers, guys.  Spacekrieg bop.  Let's just say prayers, guys.  I dropped my guy, can you get him?  Those kids are quiet.  They not allowed to quiet. .... I farted.  You gonna eat it?  Pleeee-oh pleee-oh pleee-oh.  Brush your eye!  Cheer up!  Cheer up!  What are you doing?  Can we play with you?  Nope!  Okay!  Smelly.  Yeah.  Look at my butt!  Look at my butt!  I'm a crazy butt!"

Now she just yawned. I think she's done.

Fairy Names

In an effort to direct attention away from the fact that Jonah kept killing fairies by saying he did not believe in them, I asked the kids what my fairy name would be.  Their answers were immediate and in rapid succession:

"GLASSES!"

"CRACKER!"

"HOWITZER!"

Yeah, Howitzer.

Then, after a thoughtful pause, and some discussion, they settled on "Peppermint Rose" and I would be a garden fairy.  

I'll take that.

Start wearing purple

While listening to Gogol Bordello in the car: "Mom, is this pirate music? " Em says.

Sucka

"Sucka is not a number.  It does not go 'one, two, three, four, five, six, Sucka.' You need to go back to math school." -Chris

Bedtime Stories

"I'm going to tell you guys a story, but not a scary one.  It doesn't have any scary monsters or guys with guns or triangles."
-Jones