From the category archives:

Life on Sabbatical

This is what put me in the hospital last night…

August 2, 2009

My messy living room.  Or in the 4 words my friend Michelle likes to say to me often, “you doin’ too much!”
Last night at about 2:20am I woke up with contractions, getting fast & more intense as the hour went on.  At first I took some Tums.  In pregnancy, it seems Tums cures everything! [...]

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Social City

July 17, 2009

In the last month, wev’e gotten to…
Spend a night at a lake house with our IV staff team
Spend a night with Dave & Jess watching a great movie, “Bella.”
Spend a day with my preggo friend, April (who “poppped” last week!
Play Catan/Cities & Knights with Jim & Jamie (I won!)
Play Catan/Cities & Knights with [...]

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Winding Down…

July 16, 2009

Today is July 16.  Yikes!  Meaning I’ve got exactly 16 days left until my Sabbatical is over on Aug.1 .  I was given the glorious gift of a 12-month paid time of rest & refreshment from my normal day-to-day work.  I chose to use 8 months of that time going to school full-time.  And now, [...]

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Let the Pictures do the talkin'…

July 11, 2009

Dave typically spends time reading the Bible/praying/journaling in the morning & for the past few mornings Ran has run to get his Bible to join him.  I happened to capture them this morning while walking by the sun-porch.  It seemed like such a great tasters choice moment between men.

And then a few minutes [...]

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Home and Toast

July 7, 2009

We are home from several days in Madison.  I managed to do a few responsible things but as of yet, we need to unpack, open mail & grocery shop.  Ransom seems genuinely sad when he can’t have his addiction milk.  He’s been so incredibly wonderful to have around since coming out of his whiny three’s [...]

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