Monthly Archive: July 2010

geek clothes

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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My mysterious house

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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Light

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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A formula piece

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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