Lux et umbra vicissum…

I think it’s a shame that the pro-abortion crowd has claimed the term “pro-choice”. I’m exceedingly anti-abortion (if you want to get me going, tell me you’re a pro-choice Christian), but I believe that we do have choices in a lot of areas and I believe that we need to give our children choices if […]

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It’s hard to find an online Latin translator, so I’ll provide a translation for my new blog title. It’s “light and shadow by turn”, and it seemed appropriate for my rather mood-based entries. I took it from a quote I learned back in highschool (I took four years of Latin, most of which I’ve forgotten, […]

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When Alexis was an infant, we did the whole “tough love” thing and let her cry sometimes at night so she learned she could put herself back to sleep. It worked beautifully and she slept through the night from a very early age. However, since Branwen has been born, both of them have been waking […]

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I found with my first and doubly so with my second that the only reading time I get is while I’m nursing the baby. Actually, I usually end up being drafted to read Clifford books to Alexis during that time (“I’m going to climb up here and you will read this to me!”), but when […]

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Wow. The holidays are always so crazy. I can hardly believe that Christmas is over, the New Year has begun, and Joel’s back at work. Alexis misses having her daddy at home. She cried the first morning he went back. It was really quite sweet. Now we’re counting the days till Saturday. 🙂 Branwen had […]

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