By Hannah|2014-01-14T19:01:50+00:00January 14th, 2014|Uncategorized|6 Comments
“Edy Jane, why are you up?” It was about the fifth time she had gotten out of bed that night, and Josh and I had had it. She was 3 ½ years old at the time. Sweet, smart, and somewhat resembling a Dr. Seuss character… But her critical thinking skills were poor. Having already used all the usual excuses- I’m cold. I’m thirsty. I need to go to the bathroom. Etc.- the blank [...]
By Hannah|2014-01-07T13:30:11+00:00January 7th, 2014|Uncategorized|30 Comments
A few years ago- pre-children- I was eating breakfast by myself. (That was way back in the days when doing something alone was a normal, everyday thing. Oh my goodness, how I took that for granted!) I was gazing at my cereal box with its “enlarged to show detail” generic mini-wheats dolloped with tasty blueberries when I thought to myself, “It would be nice to have blueberries on my cereal.” [...]
By Hannah|2013-12-31T19:27:11+00:00December 31st, 2013|Uncategorized|6 Comments
Christmas Eve morning. 5:30 a.m. My first thought: I want to whack Josh in the face with a pillow. Christian had been up and down all night- mad about something- so I had been up and down as well. I patted, snuggled, sang, located run-away pacifiers and the like, and all the while Sleeping Beauty with his fifteen pillows in the next room snoozed through the whole thing. I considered [...]
By Hannah|2013-12-17T09:07:26+00:00December 17th, 2013|Uncategorized|4 Comments
So our family devotion times have been pretty hit and miss. Not in consistency. We’ve been consistent. But success has been considerably harder to measure. One night the girls will impress us with what they retained from the evening before: “Immanuel means ‘God with us!’” The next night Hattie interrupts the prophecy in Isaiah with this question: “Why do your teeth stay in your mouth?” Since it just so happened [...]
By Hannah|2013-12-10T16:31:47+00:00December 10th, 2013|Uncategorized|8 Comments
I have recently developed a theory about marriage, and it goes something like this: People who like to play games tend to marry people who do not like to play games. Gamers marry non-gamers. Simple, right? However, if you are at this moment nodding your head in agreement, then you know, as I do, and have experienced, as I have, the many, many difficulties that this little theory means for [...]
By Hannah|2013-12-03T20:08:15+00:00December 3rd, 2013|Uncategorized|4 Comments
My kitchen resembles the inside of an obnoxious Mexican restaurant. Josh had to work a few nights ago, so I suggested we girls do some kind of Christmas craft to pass the time. As always, any mention of crafting was met with exuberant excitement and sheer joy. All this for chains made out of construction paper. I had imagined quaint and homey Little House on the Prairie-like red and green [...]
By Hannah|2013-11-26T20:56:35+00:00November 26th, 2013|Uncategorized|2 Comments
I had one of those days yesterday. The kind of day when my sweet friend sends me a text (you know who you are!) reminding me that mothering is both the hardest and most rewarding job ever, and I didn’t know what to say back. I didn’t respond because, honestly, I wasn’t seeing much of the reward. It went something like this: While I was making lunch I found my [...]
By Hannah|2013-11-23T00:13:29+00:00November 23rd, 2013|Uncategorized|10 Comments
I cried in Barnes and Noble the other night. I stood there in the children’s section surrounded by Pete’s New Shoes, crayons revolting (The Day the Crayons Quit- a terribly clever book. Check it out!) and about a bazillion Berenstain Bears books and cried. Now, I don’t normally cry in retail stores, but that night was different. I was holding in my hands yet another example of God’s incredible goodness to me. It [...]
By Hannah|2013-11-15T01:50:13+00:00November 15th, 2013|Uncategorized|0 Comments
If the title didn’t give it away, perhaps this will: I have unsuccessfully attempted approximately four or five previous blogs. Sadly, none of them stuck, and other than when I experienced a burst of writing genius (which never actually happened) posts were few and very far between. And yet here I am again. Hello. My very newborn writing career is just beginning, and if everyone in the whole wide world [...]
