for bridget. Monday, November 8, 2010      

  fall in lititz. Sunday, November 7, 2010      

  Steve and Linda moved into their new house on Friday of last week, and we showed up on Monday. It was a “fixer-upper” and they spent months working hard to get it ready before we all descended upon it.  The place looks great and it is very homey and cozy.  Linda has a nice big backyard, and is already planning for next year’s vegetable garden. It was a gift to explore and make memories together in it before we leave for Asia.  

  pillow talk. Thursday, November 4, 2010      

  tonight. Tuesday, November 2, 2010   Tonight I vented to Linda and David about how Judah’s current season of clinginess drives me crazy.  It’s not that I don’t want to be near him … it’s the constant tugging and climbing all over me and only wanting me to hold him or wipe his bottom or tuck him in bed.  Sometimes it’s plain suffocating. I asked Linda, “Why!?”  And she said, in her patient and wise way, “Because he’s just a baby, Jules.  And babies want their mommies.” And then, his little voice was calling my name from the bedroom.  I marched dutifully up the creaky stairs.  I changed a…

  linear park. Monday, November 1, 2010      

  trick or treat. Sunday, October 31, 2010   This was Judah, Amelie and their cousin Lina’s first time trick or treating.  I’m not sure who had more fun: the grown-ups raiding a thrift store and cutting up cardboard and aluminum foil to make them into three wily pirates, or the kiddos once they learned what the phrase “trick or treat!” produces.   I think these three would have been utterly thrilled with their first little bag of candy, but there were more doorbells to ring and more neighbors to meet.  They loved the chilly evening walk.  They loved being oohed and ahhed over.  They loved telling people what a…

  tioga trip. Saturday, October 30, 2010     Dad, Joe, and I took a mid-week Dude Weekend trip to Tioga in Wellsboro, PA.  We biked, hiked, shot guns, lit fires, set off fireworks, and ate red meat.  It was epic. previous   next    

    This was our moving week.  Thanks to those who helped us by praying, taking things off our hands, caring for our children, making us dinner, and sending emails and texts of encouragement. Yesterday David and I drove to our Waterway apartment 606 one last time.  We did a Goodwill run with my dad’s truck, gathered up our last few things, cleaned bathrooms and kitchen counters and toddler fingerprints off glass. And then, we said good-bye.  One more good-bye in a whole season of good-byes. Now we are more or less settled at my parents’ for this final month in the States.  Tomorrow we say our Lexington Presbyterian and…

  favorite haunt. Saturday, October 23, 2010