Seven Angels, Four Kids, One Family
Sometimes sarcasm is the only sane response
I’ve realized how much I’m a geek: it’s visible. This week I’ve been “teaching” Vacation Bible School (I’m a youtherd, shepherding children from activity to activity) and every day they have a “color of the day,” and they’d like you…
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When I nearly forgot to go pick up my kid from summer camp because I was engrossed in Katrina Kittle‘s “Two Truths and a Lie,” I knew for sure I needed to write a book review. But actually, I’m going…
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Every so often we still find a “surprise” leftover from The Cursed Move, which if you recall was still giving us paperwork headaches a year and a half later. (“Surprise! Your flood insurance isn’t valid!” and “Surprise! Your email address…
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I was asked to help out with a local church’s Vacation Bible School, and somehow I stumbled through the first day, Kiddo #4 attached to my hip, herding the kids from activity to activity. (Job title: Youtherd.) I’ve been nervous…
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To: virgin.mary@ancientisrael.com From: gabriel@janelebak.com Date: March 25th, 9:35:55 AM Subject: IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT! — Hello Mary, Full of Grace I know this is kind of weird, but bear with me and don’t get worried. I’m Gabriel, one of the angels who…
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After this post, I think I’m allowed to call myself a writer for real, rather than just someone who pretends to write. What do you think? 1) Always open your junk mail. I got a letter from Liguorian, which I…
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Out at the mailbox I was greeted with a surprise. Inside, I called to my Patient Husband, “Sweetie? Do you have something to tell me?” and I handed him a container of infant formula. He looked puzzled. “Wouldn’t you have…
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Sunday at the train station I found myself face to face with a black plastic trash bag standing under a central support post in the bottom floor of the parking garage, no one around it. It wasn’t someplace you might…
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Dear Emily, Today should have been your tenth birthday, and tomorrow is ten years since you entered Heaven. I just wanted to tell you we still miss you and sometimes I still see the gap in our family where you’d…
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“Do you think that stone owl is passive-aggressive?” I asked my Patient Husband. “What stone owl?” he asked. “On the mailbox of the house next to the one where they’re selling the fresh eggs,” I said. “I drove by and…
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