The moment when you feel, "its not YOU, it's ME," with your church, when there are no bad feelings and nothing happened but it's just time to move on. Since I started working full time Monday- Friday and the boys have been in pre-school, I have felt like I haven't got to spend enough time with them, this coupled with the fact that Ben works every Saturday until almost 5 and it seems like we … [Read more...]
perception & transparency
Later this week Bear has an appointment with a gastroenterologist (and yes, I spelled that right the first time!) at Children's Hospital. If you were about to click away to google what a "gastroenterologist" is, I'll just fill you in my layperson's terms: A stomach and intestines doctor who deals with all sorts of hard-to-diagnose issues. Which is what we have had for years with Bear, but it's … [Read more...]
old-fashioned conversation vs. culturally relevant jargon
I'll be the first to admit this- I can be a bit slooooooow. I was slow to get Facebook, Twitter and Blogging- and really, really slow to get a Mac. Don't misunderstand that for laziness, I really didn't see the need for any of that until I HAD it and then the lightbulb went off above my head, the "ahhhh, now I get it." moment. I suppose I can take this as far as conversationally I'm a bit … [Read more...]