Plumbing Our Depths

Our kitchen faucet dripped. Blip, blip, blip, bloop. Constantly.
Az the Helpful Husband changed the washer, but it still dripped. The faucet needed to be replaced.
Az’s father has quietly shown his love for our girls by home improvement since the first birth, installing, at last count: a new toilet, a new sink, a [...]

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Interview

Meredith of Poppy Fields posted an interview of questions she received from Jennifer of Italian Trivia, and asked for volunteers to be interviewed by her. I am thrilled to exercise my vanity and answer questions as though I were fascinating (I AM a blogger), so I stepped right up.
So imagine Meredith sitting attentively, pitching [...]

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Plans

This Sunday begins a new Christian year.  The Christian liturgical calendar begins at Advent, when we prepare to welcome Jesus at Christmas.
This year I am planning to write a post for each Sunday in Advent and then follow up with another devotional series for the Twelve Days of Christmas, which is December 25th through January [...]

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Seven Random Reasons Why I Don’t Have a New Post Today

I can’t find a way to slip the word “apophatic” into the post I’m working on without you suspecting that I’m just showing off.
JellyBean and Sweetpea have decided to check their own blogs as I check mine.  This involves typing over my fingers and declaring, “Look, Mama! I’m doing it, too!”  from JellyBean, and from [...]

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In Light of Your Comments…

on the Baby Names post, I have decided to name my hypothetical next daughter Braedynn McKayla or Mercer Paulettine.  Thank you.

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