Wednesday, March 13, 2013
"To Jesus..."
Noah picked up my little Spurgeon devotional book at breakfast this morning. It looks like another one that I keep in the bathroom ;). He opened it and "read" aloud what I presume must have been the dedication: "To Jesus...in the bathroom."
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Motherhood - the hugeness of the task
I am so helped by this perspective-giving quote from G.K. Chesterton:
“[Woman is surrounded] with very young children, who require to be taught not so much anything as everything. Babies need not to be taught a trade, but to be introduced to a world. To put the matter shortly, woman is generally shut up in a house with a human being at the time when he asks all the questions that there are, and some that there aren’t….”
“[W]hen people begin to talk about this domestic duty as not merely difficult but trivial and dreary, I simply give up the question. For I cannot with the utmost energy of imagination conceive what they mean. When domesticity, for instance, is called drudgery, all the difficulty arises from a double meaning in the word. If drudgery only means dreadfully hard work, I admit the woman drudges in the home, as a man might drudge [at his work]. But if it means that the hard work is more heavy because it is trifling, colorless and of small import to the soul, then as I say, I give it up; I do not know what the words mean…. I can understand how this might exhaust the mind, but I cannot imagine how it could narrow it. How can it be a large career to tell other people’s children [arithmetic], and a small career to tell one’s own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No; a woman’s function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness.”
“[Woman is surrounded] with very young children, who require to be taught not so much anything as everything. Babies need not to be taught a trade, but to be introduced to a world. To put the matter shortly, woman is generally shut up in a house with a human being at the time when he asks all the questions that there are, and some that there aren’t….”
“[W]hen people begin to talk about this domestic duty as not merely difficult but trivial and dreary, I simply give up the question. For I cannot with the utmost energy of imagination conceive what they mean. When domesticity, for instance, is called drudgery, all the difficulty arises from a double meaning in the word. If drudgery only means dreadfully hard work, I admit the woman drudges in the home, as a man might drudge [at his work]. But if it means that the hard work is more heavy because it is trifling, colorless and of small import to the soul, then as I say, I give it up; I do not know what the words mean…. I can understand how this might exhaust the mind, but I cannot imagine how it could narrow it. How can it be a large career to tell other people’s children [arithmetic], and a small career to tell one’s own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No; a woman’s function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness.”
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
~40 laps
This is why I am looking into purchasing some kind of indoor play equipment or mini-trampoline. This film only covers about half of the time he was running like this! And I wonder why I'm exhausted at the end of every day.
http://youtu.be/TiJNYBjtk4c
http://youtu.be/TiJNYBjtk4c
Sunday, March 3, 2013
Snow Day
Just enough to catch on your tongue and make you want to dance around. A first for Noah. I thi he is a fan.
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Quotable Kiddos
When Robbie puts Noah to bed, like most kids, Noah tries to put off the actual "goodnight" as much as possible. Some kids will ask for water. Or one more story. Or try to start conversation. Tonight, as Robbie was leaving the room, Noah said with great urgency, "Daddy! I have questions! I have QUESTIONS!"
I guess he hadn't quite figured out what his questions were, but that wasn't important. All that mattered was keeping daddy close for as long as possible.
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