“There is possible malaria risk in rural areas of Santa Anna. I will not know the exact area we will be working in until we arrive. Let your conscience and your physician be your guide.” — Willie Nemeth, our Habitat for Humanity team leader in a recent email. So I’m leaving for El Salvador in [...]
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Week 47: Half birthdays and malaria
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged el salvador, half birthday, mission trip on September 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Week 46: Fall — the season to simmer soup and soul
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged autumn, fall on September 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »
” Simmering food slowly, for a long time, helps the juices penetrate the whole. Hardly anyone simmers anything anymore. Everything is zapped in the microwave or cooked as quickly as possible. I think this reflects on our spiritual life as well. Wisdom and wholeness deepen in us when we reflectively allow ideas and feelings to sit inside us for a [...]
Listening to the voices inside my head
Posted in Africa, dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged spiritual director on September 14, 2010 | 5 Comments »
“Could you really be doing more by doing less?” — my head to me on a walk through my neighborhood one recent morning. A few months ago, I hooked up with a spiritual director. I was having lunch with someone I work with on church/immigration issues, someone I respect massively. She was going through a [...]
Week 45: This week, let’s go to bed hungry and eat Taco Bell in the car
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting on September 12, 2010 | 3 Comments »
“So if you don’t like it, you can just go to bed.” — me to Noah at the dinner table. And thus began a very stressful weekend in parenting-teen relations. All was good in 13-year-old land until he got a text, inviting him skating at the last minute Friday night. We’re new at this going [...]
Week 44: The inspiration of cousins and country air
Posted in Africa, dinner, family dinner, parenting on September 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“This is what this house is all about.” — Clyde’s cousin, Shelly, in the kitchen of her new country home this weekend. Both of Clyde’s parents are only children, yet he has children’s-book-worthy memories of growing up with his cousins. He was especially close to three girls, his second cousins from California, who spent many [...]
Week 43: Kids Cook Sundays and four other tips for getting through the busy week
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting on August 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” — Harriet Van Horn, American newspaper columnist Hear, hear! My kids are so like this. They will venture into any recipe with as much enthusiasm as they might give to a tree unclimbed or, sometimes, a match unlit. To nurture [...]
25 random reasons I love my husband
Posted in parenting, tagged birthdays, love on August 27, 2010 | 3 Comments »
“May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.” — Frank Sinatra Today is Clyde’s 44th birthday. He’s not as into birthdays as I am, hates opening gifts, and doesn’t usually want a fuss. Still, it is a day to celebrate the most important person in my life. So [...]
Week 42: The summer of SAD (Seriously107degreesisnothumane Affective Disorder), endless okra, and our annual goal list
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged goals, summer on August 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German playwright, poet, novelist For the last several summers, the kids and I have created a summer goal list sometime between the teacher gifts and shelved lunch boxes that mark the end of the school year and the always-packed pool bag [...]
Free digs, underage accountants, and other rules of the family road trip
Posted in family dinner, parenting, tagged budget, road trip, travel, vacation on August 5, 2010 | 3 Comments »
“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.” — James Michener, American author Every year, I make it a goal to be out of Texas for one month. It used to be six weeks — the length most Europeans get for holiday — but [...]
When the teenager’s OK, everybody’s OK
Posted in parenting on July 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“OK.” — Noah, Wednesday night. Several times. May not seem like much. But an “OK” from my 13-year-old is an oh-my-God-you-are-the-most-wonderful-mom-in-the-world-let-me-shout-it-from-the-Empire-State-Building-proclaim-it-in-front-of-all-the-world-and-Facebook-and-buy-you-chocolate-I-can-barely-contain-my-adoration kind of statement. Or something like that. The dinner I slaved over was OK. Watching a movie with us was OK. The snack I suggested after dinner, yep, OK. Can you feed the guinea [...]
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