Our sweet baby boy is a year old today!
Happy Birthday Gerhardt!
August 28th, 2011 by Aubri
Just a Wind Storm
August 27th, 2011 by Aubri
I have had a great many days in a row where I can’t tell what I did at the end of the day. I am pretty sure I did something. I didn’t sit down that I can remember. These are the kind of days when my husband tells me that I was being fruitful, even if it doesn’t look productive. A fruit tree doesn’t move things from an in-basket to an out-basket all day. It is not in the business of ticking off boxes on a to-do list. Sometimes the business of being fruitful is standing in the rain, holding on to your branches in a wind storm, or simply providing shade. Every day is not an apple harvest day. Every day is part of a process, part of a journey towards fruit. Your whole life is part of a fruit bearing work, but today was just a wind storm.
In The Trenches
August 24th, 2011 by Aubri
Lily fell asleep laying across my lap yesterday afternoon. She’s been a little under the weather lately so I left her while I fiddled on my laptop. Then I felt it. Hot and wet streaming into my lap. She slept on right while she wet all over me and the couch. And I just sat waiting and waiting (is she still going?!) until she was done and then I kept sitting, soaked, but she was taking such a good nap and she needed rest. I needed to change my pants.
Mothering in the trenches! Still not as nitty gritty as the time I napped with Lily and got a very different surprise right in my hand. But no one needs to know about that do they? Sometimes you just have to laugh at the glamor of it all.
A Good Daddy
August 23rd, 2011 by Aubri
Phil helped Lily put together her first big girl puzzle. Is it weird that I’m so excited she’s finally in this new category of “3-5 years old” range of toys that finally seem fun even to me?
It’s a whole new world!
