What we're working toward

I still remember the first time I saw this in 2006. I found it very insightful and profound then, one of my favorite BYU devotionals ever, and I've revisited it several times since. We watched it tonight for family night. I highly recommend it. Tell me what you think!

BYUtv - BYU Devotional: Douglas L. Callister (9/19/06)
More on this man.

quote of the day

Me: (Moan.) I don't feel so good.
Chace: (Sniff.) You don't smell so good.

And alas, he's right. Thanks for the honesty.

My Better Half

As usual, Wendell Berry says it best. Borrowed thoughts on our fourth anniversary:

"Walter Cotman always spoke of Mary as Elton's "better half." In spite of his sulks and silences, she would not go so far as "better." That she was his half, she had no doubt at all. He needed her. At times she knew with a joyous ache that she completed him, just as she knew with that same joy that she needed him and he completed her. How beautiful a thing it was, she thought, to be a half, to be completed by such another half! When had there ever been such a yearning of halves toward each other, such a longing, even in quarrels, to be whole? And sometimes they would be whole. Their wholeness came upon them as a rush of light, around them and within them, so that she felt they must be shining in the dark."

Wendell Berry, A Jonquil for Mary Penn



Four years down, forever to go! WAHOO!

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Our True Identity

Something to keep in mind today. And always!

Good morning, Spike.

 

 

I'm reading on the couch when Chace calls urgently from the next room, "Um, Rivka, can you please come and help me with something?" I, made suspicious by the strange tone in his voice, mosy into the kitchen to find him laying the table:

 

We have an impromptu mini-date with ice cream cones and a game of Briscola (a Sicilian card game.) House rules say the winner gets a foot rub, but somehow the loser always gets one too. Nice how that works out, especially tonight when I happen to be the loser.

Why is my husband the best?

Because when he comes home from a business trip in Minnesota, he brings me this:


Yes, Chace lovingly held this real pizza napolitana on his lap the whole flight. Betcha didn't know they let pizzas through airport security, did ya?

Moods

For Matilda's 3-month birthday, she wanted to play her favorite game, "Moods" where one player portrays a certain mood and the others have to guess it. Our best guesses:

Persnickety

 

Disdainful

 

Indignant

 

Dubious

 

Melodramatic

 

Mischievous

> 

breakfast

Before......during...

 

...after!

 

Can you say...

...over-stimulated?

*Thank you Hirschis for the excersaucer. I think it's a hit. She even meows back when we press the kitten button!

A favorite

In case you haven't cried along to a beautiful song lately,

here you go.

Happy Sabbath.