It’s Monday, and it feels like a Wednesday. It was a hard weekend. Tim was on a men’s “retreat,” so I was alone with the kids. And, I was grieving. So, though I woke up this morning feeling ready to go, I am now done. Have you had those Mondays? When, though you get started […]
A Bright Light in the Darkness
I wrote these words this past spring and they did not make it up on this blog then. I would like to share them with you now. For three and a half years, I slaved away at Denver Seminary working towards my Master of Divinity degree. The last nine moths of those years I was […]
An Update
On Saturday my little Jack became a… After I went to the fabric store and couldn’t find the right fake fur for the skunk idea I gave up and bought a costume. Yeah, I didn’t try very hard… but even that was a lot of effort for me. I’ve mentioned a few times my struggle […]
Brighten My Heart
I have not written in some time because I have been uncertain what to say. Sometimes it is hard for me to process my own feelings. I find that what I want to feel is often different from how I am feeling. Therefore I fight my feelings, trying to convince myself that I am not […]
Thoughts on the Last Post
The responses to my last post made me think a lot about what I experienced nine or ten months ago. The truth is I actually wrote the majority of that post last March or April. I wrote it when I was much closer to the drama than I am now. I wrote it when I […]
Mental & Physical Health
I don’t remember if I’ve mentioned this here, but I have had a pretty negative attitude in the last few months. I guess I said I was depressed due to sleep depravation. Well, the sleep depravation hasn’t totally gone away and neither has the depression. I’m not clinically depressed. But I am generally down. I […]
Ferber is Stressing Me Out
It has begun. On Monday night Tim and I started “Ferberizing” Jack. I have been mostly against this form of sleep training because it seems so cruel, but I feel it has to be done. Not only am I once again dependent on caffeine, but I’m also depressed. There, I said it. In the past […]