March 8, 2011

• I’m having a difficult time setting myself down to write anything. I apologize. I really believe it’s due to some spiritual attack, as strange as that may sound. I have finally committed to getting back into writing and now i cant find the resolve to actually do it. Hence the abundance of videos. I suppose some might prefer the videos and photos to the blathering. I’m actually talking about other writing though. Book reviews and articles for venues other than my personal blog. ha.

  Caught Asher playing with an earthworm today. He was so tickled by the squirming and jumping little thing he squealed with delight every time it jumped and twisted in response to his prodding, picking up and putting down. When i ran in to get the camera to take a video i came back to find him with the thing in his mouth…

  Judah and i were talking at bedtime today about how daddy needs to go away in a few months for some meetings in Kenya so he can get better at his job. After pondering this a while he said to me that i was already quite good at my job, so i neednt go away for meetings. (ha. thanks buddy.)

  Asher is cutting his two bottom teeth on either side of the two middle chompers. Hence the sleep-less nights recently. (gah!)

  I wrote a long and involved treatise on why i celebrate lent… and then lost it. probably to your benefit. in it i quoted Beth Moore’s Daniel introductory session, Doris Longacre Janzen’s More with Less Cookbook, and some books on Sabbath… in addition to some academically and theologically suspect websites on the origins of lent. I dont care anymore to write about it. sorry. but i have been convicted to spend my Lenten season focusing on the freedom to NOT buy things i do not need and on the sufficiency i have in the Almighty and what he has already blessed us with. Beth Moore’s Daniel series is just so fantastic. and especially during the Lenten season. I’m sorry that Josh cant take it with me.

  A month after our anniversary and i still havent really touched the E-Book reader Josh bought me for a present. He’s monopolized it to read his own books.

  Hopefully our newsletter will hit newsstands (figuratively speaking) next week. My writers ‘block’ seems to have had ‘far-reaching’ effects. I’m hoping to start going on more flights on my own while Josh stays home so i can write about what’s going on ‘out there’ for the benefit of the “wider MAF community” (aka. the MAF home office in England). Looking forward to this new challenge, but a bit nervous about the logistics of how that will work out with things/children at home.

  The rain is ridonculous. Our secret fort house in the back is still lacking the plastic roofing that i did buy on Monday, but Josh hasnt put it up yet and therefore the house is flooded with a foot of water every morning. Boo-urns! Our real house is suffering the effects of the rain also – moldy smells abound. Deck chair cushions remained stacked indoors for days, cluttering up the space and providing endless cluttery fun for the boys who love to jump on them and whack each other over the head with the foam. (i’m talking mostly of Josh and Judah here). Our truck has a leak somewhere and after a good rain i can hear buckets of water sloshing around under the floor mats. the MAF garage is so busy, however, that they dont have time to check it out… but when they did hoist it up to see under the truck on Monday for a quick look-see they also found another problem with the ______ (i dont remember the name. the seal that connects the wheel to the axel?). Sigh.

  Reading Three Cups of Tea just now. Amazing. Also, Sabbath Keeping by Lynne M. Baab as a Lenten read, Hold onto Your Kids, Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Mate; Families on the Move: Growing up Overseas and Loving it! by Marion Knell (which i WILL write a book review for for the Messenger, i’m committed!) Josh is reading some Clive Cussler book on the e-reader. (bah!) Also, still reading Wizard of Oz to Judah. Almost done.

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