This Reminds Me

We’ve had a chaotic couple of weeks with basketball, choir, Latin competitions, trading germs, etc.   Today’s been the first day in many that I haven’t sounded like a emphysemic sailor hacking up a lung.   When I feel cruddy, everything either wears me out (makes me sad) or riles me up (makes me mad.)  I [...]

Baptists aren’t really “Lenten people” but our church family is preparing our hearts for Easter with this series.  Finding the 28 minutes a day for listening was challenging me.  So…..I’ve given up K-Love during drive time until I’ve finished hearing the New Testament.
Julia is sitting next to me right this minute, practicing the songs her [...]

What else is there to say?  Or sing?

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That’s alto Rachel on the far left, harmonizing in the gray jacket – joining as an alumni, since she was graduated last year.
Merry Christmas!

Just a little musical interlude for you today – “I Saw Three Ships,” performed by the Reagan High School choir, including Lois.
I love Christmas music.  In fact – In 1994, Keith convinced me to abandon over-the-air TV for DISH because of its holiday music channel.  Pretty funny, since we both work on U-verse now.

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Just a little number my homies and I choreographed.
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Until I went digital in 2003 – I was always a “Nikon gal,” going back to my 1979  Nikon EM (”The plastic Nikon,” as my friend and professional photographer Steve sniffed).  My digital cameras have all been Kodak models, largely because -  I confess – I like the software.
But my latest Kodak  – a 2005 [...]

The girls and I are fairly tired and definitely sweaty after a full day of filling, carting, stacking and banding Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child boxes.  We’re not sure how many boxes we have just yet.  I’m never even  sure what we have to pack until I start dragging it out and slicing open boxes.  [...]

We celebrated our third Sister’s Day today, remembering when Julia came home from Russia and became not only our daughter, but also the sister of Rachel, Lois and Hannah.  That sibling relationship and subsequent attachment has been every bit as important as her relationship and subsequent attachment to Keith and me.  We were a “unit” [...]

I hate to cry.  Always have.  But this time next year, I’m planning a nose-blowing, eye-wiping blubber fest when Hannah last performs with the Bush Middle School choir.  For the final song of the school year – “The Lord Bless You and Keep You” – alumni join the graded choirs on stage.  Like Rachel and [...]

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I’ve enjoyed hand-created cards, paperweights, refrigerator magnets, list holders and coupon books.  But never – before now – a song.
When Lois was little and the middle of our original three girls, she and I shared a “secret.”  I would whisper to her, “You’re in the middle, and I’m in the middle.”  [...]