Family and Friends

The dawning of a new trimester.

In four days time the first trimester will be over. This is just the kind of milestone that warrants reflection. No, seriously. We’ve ushered in the concept of multiple birth to our consciousness. We’ve had climactic doctor’s visits. We’ve listened to the sound of heart beats seemingly in stereo. We’ve discovered Beth is clever enough to notice when a bulge appears in…
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Family and Friends

A man’s culpability never ends.

I’ve heard it said that being a fighter pilot can be described as 10 hours of boredom followed by 30 seconds of terror. The same can be said of being a husband. Tonight was a case in point. I was sitting in the living room, minding my own business, with my iBook firmly entrenched right where it belongs – in my lap. I had been there for quite some time, so this was not a sudden…
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Family and Friends

Bad answers.

While I find the adage “there’s no such thing as a stupid question” debatable, it is clear that not only IS there such a thing as a stupid answer, they are plentiful. As these entries tend to go, there is a reason I bring this up. Step this way. I am home after a physically tiring day. My stomach is digesting dinner and a haze has descended over my eyes. I’m lounging in the…
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Beth

A change in circumstances does the trick.

Beth was sitting in the bathroom requesting assistance. We told her that she was too old for that kind of assistance and that she needed to do it herself. She spent the next twenty minutes not doing it herself, asking repeatedly for the assistance that would never come. “MOM, ARE YOU IGNORING ME?” Mommy answers with more silence. “MOM, YOU CAN’T IGNORE ME!” Mommy…
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Family and Friends

Calling on God.

Dear God, First of all I wanted to thank you. Thank you for listening to me, for your patience with me, and for all of your gifts given for me. Sometimes the whole “God loves me” thing seems a little abstract, but I guess that’s partly why we go to church: to make it a little less abstract. Oh dear Lord that sounds a little over simplified now that I can read it on the…
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Family and Friends

Fifteen minutes.

One exciting thing has happened in the last day or so… Cheryl saw her cousin on T.V. There is a “reality” show on FOX called “Playing it Straight”, and her cousin is part of a group men trying to win the affection of an unsuspecting damsel. Normally I am not a big fan of “reality” T.V. (remind me again what exactly is real about it?), but I must admit to a…
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