because reading matters
January 27, 2010
truth and lies
January 24, 2010
I’m feeling that way today. It’s just not a good day, in general.
I wish I didn’t get frustrated so easily. It seems like everyone else in the world just has a switch that they flip, and then they’re back to being their happy-go-lucky selves. Or they have the ability to not let things frustrate them in the first place.
I have neither.
Of course, the first thing that comes to mind is Philippians 4:13. A promise to which I can lay claim.
But it’s hard to do anything through Christ when you feel so very un-Christlike. I suppose that’s how Satan works – taking a truth (because it IS hard) and convincing you that you must succumb to it, turning it into a lie.
Frankly, I have yet to figure out how to defeat him in this arena.
there, in the brush!
January 17, 2010
I’m going to try to get him to post more frequently. This is, after all, supposed to be a blog by both of us. From now on, you’ll see blue backgrounds on his posts and yellow ones on mine to make it easier to tell who’s writing (since the author tag is at the bottom of the post, not the top).
My Movie Obsession
January 17, 2010
Well, this year brought along with it a new television (46″ Samsung 1080p mounted on the wall), and Christmas followed with a Blu-Ray player from the in-laws. I have no desire to ever step foot inside a movie theater again. No more loud conversations or confrontations in the theater. I can absorb the wonder of cinema from the comfort of my own couch. Hopefully I can build some memories here at home with Asher that are just as epic as mine were.
A recent trailer I saw online sparked some of that same cinematic awe in me that I remember from those first movie experiences. It’s a Terry Gilliam film, so you know that the visuals are going to be wild, but this preview just blew me away. I cannot wait to see it. It is rare that I get truly excited about an upcoming movie. Here it is:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/theimaginariumofdoctorparnassus/
12:39a
January 17, 2010
HA!
I should know better. It never fails that I will click on a link, which leads to another link, which leads to another, which leads to me stumbling across a blog that I read briefly about a year ago and now absolutely MUST catch up on as so much has happened since then.
And now I’m here.
Hi. 
You’ll notice the new look. It figures that the one year I get the tree down promptly on New Year’s Day, I leave the blog Christmas theme up until mid-way through January. It’s fixed now.
Things have been going sort of well around here lately. By “sort of” I mean everything is generally dandy, but Asher has been behaving out of sorts (read: freaking the crap out at random), and it’s taken its toll on both of our stress levels. I find myself getting really angry – not AT Asher, but at this feeling of being at a complete loss as to how to make it better. In MomLand, we call that epic fail. Chad tends to think that Children’s Motrin is the answer. And in all fairness, sometimes it is. But sometimes it isn’t, and with as many meds as Asher takes on a regular basis, I hate giving him yet another one arbitrarily. It’s hard to argue that point when nothing is working, though.
But in general things are good. Asher is inching (millimetering?) closer to crawling every day. I was hoping he would be on the move by his 2nd birthday, but the pessimist in me is thinking we might have to push that goal back to the summer, maybe even fall. The optimist in me thinks it could happen “right on schedule” (our Asher-altered schedule, that is). The realist in me is laughing at both of them because she knows we’re all doing everything we can on our end, and it’s ultimately in God’s hands.
12:53. I’m trying to decide what book to read next, and if I should run myself a hot bath to read it in in hopes of re-attaining my sleepy state. The house is hovering at a barely-tolerable 68 degrees thanks to the Electric Bill From Hell, so the bath is sounding really nice at this point. I finished The Lovely Bones yesterday and need to decide between two $1 books I picked up at BAM the other day. One is about a cop in… Russia? Maybe in the future? I can’t even remember what the other one is about. Hey, they were only a buck. Give me a break.
12:59. Okay, I hunted down the books and it appears I blended their plots. One is about a man interviewing Holocaust survivors in Russia and ending up in an underbelly of sorts. The other is about a cop who ends up in the underbelly of his PD.
I’m going to read the one about the cop because it’s a signed copy, and… well… that just makes it a little cooler.
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January 14, 2010
Yet another confirmation that I am still alive. One day the blogging spirit will come upon me again. Not this day.
boo!
December 28, 2009
Did I scare ya? 
I don’t actually have anything to say. How sad is that? ESPECIALLY considering how much has gone on since the last update. I’m just not in that typing place.
I do have a request, though. Could you pray for little Kaydence? She is going Home soon, and she and her family need all the love they can get right now. http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/kaydenceholmes
on babies and birthing
December 2, 2009
Sometimes I want to take my facebook news feed and throw it through a window.
It baffles me how many expectant moms (usually young ones) will post a status 6+ weeks before their due date that says something to the effect of “I am SO sick of being pregnant – I hope he/she will come early!”
All I can say is you have no idea how badly I want to throttle them. Whenever baby number 2 comes along (not for at least another year, so don’t hold your breath just yet ;] ), I pray to God he or she will bake for 40 or more weeks. I know it’s uncomfortable… my Asher belly was HUGE, even at 28 weeks – he was oversized for his age and I had waaaay more fluid than is typical. I don’t care, though. Four months in a NICU will change your outlook on a lot of things. Heartburn? Bring it. Swelling? Fine with me. It’s all worth it.
Having a baby prematurely? It’s no picnic, friends.
So yeah. I see these updates and they make me angry, because these girls are squandering away a beautiful time, and they have NO IDEA what it is they are hoping for.
For that I suppose I can grant them mercy… after I whack them with a clue-by-four.
on the mend
November 27, 2009
I’m feeling a little better today. Not totally recovered, but enough to function fairly well without being super medicated. My throat is much better – it’s now more of a congestion battle.
Yesterday we had a great time at Grossmommy’s for Thanksgiving. There was good food, good family, and fun games. We go to Dad’s for Round 2 tomorrow. Hopefully my recuperation will continue. Unfortunately, Chad is now getting the crud, so our house as a whole probably has a few days of blah left.
I really want to put up the tree today, despite not feeling 100%… tradition and all. I have Pandora set to Christmas music; it’s helping to inspire.
turkey and NyQuil
November 25, 2009
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and I have the worst sore throat I can recall. I’m okay when I just breathe, but when I swallow… OY.
I almost never get sick. I was just wondering the other day if I would even get a chance to use the NyQuil this winter (okay, I confess – cherry NyQuil is awesome, and it makes me want to be sick at least once a year… no, that is not normal; I’m a weirdo). As I said, tomorrow is Thanksgiving. Swallowing is excruciating. Despite my guilty pleasure for NyQuil, it is not nearly as strong as my guilty pleasure for justified excessive eating.
This is cruel irony.
the wife
the husband
