At some moment last night, I looked at the mass of small children on the floor before me, laying, crawling, toddling, walking in a great conglomeration of arms and legs, heads and bodies, and had a vision of the future. In twelve years, the youngest there will have just passed that year marker. There will be two thirteen-year-olds, two fourteen-year-olds, […]
A Quoteable Week
Home for the birth of Jonathan Lewis Warnemuende, who made his arrival a few days late at 9:56 am, Monday, August 10, 2009, weighing in at 9 lbs. 11 oz., and 21.5 inches long, I’ve realized once again how quoteable my family can be. Here’s a few choice notes from the week so far. In a discussion about various family […]
The Comfort of the Familiar
It was a few years ago that I had the realization – my entire being would relax when I heard Tagalog. It was something I’m sure I’d experienced prior to the realization, but it hit me one day that though I couldn’t understand what was being said, my mind just let the words and intonations roll over it without struggle […]