Happy Birthday Jesus

Happy Birthday Jesus. (Okay, so I am a day late.) Thanks be to God for the greatest gift ever given in the form of his baby son. Many blessings to you all as you celebrate this joyous occasion, with whatever traditions you have accumulated over the years!

Unique Uses

Did you know that Vick's Vaporub makes a great hairgel? (Though the smell leaves a lot to be desired?!) Gavin decided to gel his hair into a mohawk and in mistaking my very similar gel/hair mold container for Vick's applied very liberally...

My "under construction" project involves removing hurricane debris from our living room. It is amazing what mess an extra two children can create, but we have a blast with our nieces last night. (And I even had my very own piano recital this morning!) Currently Gavin and Rebekah are dancing and bouncing on the mattresses still piled in the living room. I hear a gaspy "I can't wait to tire myself out to sleep!" and can hardly believe it!

Did you also know that turtle-shaped sandbox lids make great toboggans (that fit 3 or 4 kids)? (And the massive green UFO-shaped half-dome sure can destroy a poor little innocent spruce...)

Me Once Removed

As heard on the CBC: "There used to be a me behind my mask but I had it surgically removed".

My problem is that the me behind the mask rears its ugly head too often...not so much a scary me (well for me, that is, so of course it is a biased opinion) but an honest me. A go-against-the-grain me. An I-can't-understand-why-everyone-else-has-such-a-problem-with-change me.

Yep, that's the one. Rearin' its strange, seemingly anti-culture and ugly to everyone else head...