Don’t worry, I promise I won’t turn this blog into a book-reviewing website. For one thing, I won’t be reading enough books to merit that, and for another, I don’t usually enjoy reviewing books. So maybe just think of this as a “part two” to my last book review post. 🙂 ...continue reading
Sitting with the Crucifixion
Yesterday at Bible Time, Alec was looking through the new Bible story book we’re reading, and he found a picture of light streaming out of an empty tomb.
“Can we read this story, Mom?”
I told him that Easter was actually this coming weekend, and that Easter is when we celebrate that very story, and of course we could read it.
It started with the crucifixion, and as I read I tried to make sure Alec especially understood why it was that Jesus had to die, but as I tried to talk about it, he kind of brushed off what I was saying with, “But in three days . . .”
Yes, in three days came the resurrection. And when we read it all as one story, when we know that glorious ending, it’s hard to remember to sit with the enormity of the crucifixion. ...continue reading
Casamigos con Mi Amigo
I know, lame title, but we went on our first kid-free date in over a year, and we went to Casamigos. 🙂 (House of Friends with my friend.)
My dear sister came to our house and watched all three of our boys while we slipped off to one of our favorite restaurants in town. ...continue reading
My Little Keyboard Bandit
No mother is just a mother. We all have hobbies and interests, even if they’ve been on the back burner so long we’ve about forgotten them. Some of us have side gigs; some of us have little projects we fit in here and there.
I have a few of those, but the one that takes up the most of my time these days is probably the business bookkeeping. I won’t lie, there are quite a few days when I ponder how much extra time I would have if I wasn’t always filling in the cracks with paying bills and entering data and filing invoices. ...continue reading
The Baers Go to the Zoo
I don’t know why you read here, and I hope you don’t either because, my word, my 2023 blog posts have been all over the map. Literally.
In January, a house tour in Australia. In February, a book review about Mennonites kidnapped in Haiti and another book review about parenting and brain science.
Let’s not get off track here in March, shall we? 🙂
How about a trip to the zoo . . . Emmett’s first zoo trip. Sebastian’s, too. Even Alec’s first time, although I probably shouldn’t be admitting that. A child not going to the zoo till they’re five years old? When the zoo is literally less than an hour away?
I think we kept saying, Let’s wait till he’s old enough to appreciate it. And then another baby brother would come along, so we’d say, Let’s wait till he’s old enough to appreciate it. And pretty soon, another baby brother came along, and we finally just went. ...continue reading
