Happy New Year!



What better way to celebrate the end of 2016 than a trip to the Oregon Zoo with friends, to see the Zoolights?  Thanks to Joanna for the great picture! 


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Problem With Marriage

The problem with marriage - or the modern understanding of marriage - is that a union which claims to help two independent people find "self-actualization" or to "fulfill all their dreams" is impossible. What happens when one person's self-actualization is one hundred percent in the way of the other person's dream? Well, maybe divorce. Maybe just a fight. Possibly one partner yields all rights to his own "self-actualization" and bends to the other's will - not happily, but out of necessity - perhaps there are children involved. Sometimes the idea of "compromise" is introduced - I give this, you give that. Maybe neither is happy, but hey, any reasonable person can see that you can't have your own way all the time. I just read Dr. Leithart's article " When Marriage is Dying ." He made the case that any marriage involves death - the death of two single people to produce a couple, and that every marriage requires daily...
Read more

Scones!

Image
Since the the big kids we're having Thanksgiving parties at school today, I thought that Phinehas and Elena and I should do something special! So we did some baking after Circle Time. Elena played with playdoh while Phinehas and I made scones... Only when the second batch was nearly ready to go in the oven did I realize that we had cut up the butter, but never added it in to the dough! Whoops! Still, there was enough sugar and raisins and whipping cream in the dough, to be very edible. And it filled Phinehas' "love tank" right up! 
Read more

Unexpected Houseguest

Image
Photobomber at Mary S. Young Park Watching Ethan play games on his phone COVID Parking lot church! Grill Master! In February of 2020, shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic shut everything down, we ended up having an unexpected houseguest join us for a few day - which turned into 6 months! Our friend's son, Ethan, ended up rooming with Ezra and Phin for that time. Since his stay impacted us in a big way, I didn't want to leave him out of our photo albums! 
Read more