photos from last summer when I took the kids to Chicago to see U2
We had tickets for the upcoming concert here in Minneapolis.We hope to not lose them, because we've been told they will be good in 2011 when they try to tour again.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
What We Won't be Seeing
We had tickets for the upcoming concert here in Minneapolis.We hope to not lose them, because we've been told they will be good in 2011 when they try to tour again.
Today's Run
How did I prepare for today's hearing? Packed a bag of clothes for a post-hearing run!
No, seriously. Today was the third and final installment in a rather lengthy hearing. 3 months lengthy. One of the many things I did to prepare for today's installment was to prepare for my post-hearing sanity. This included: shorts, shirt, shoes, water bottle and salt tablets.
We began at 8:30 and finished at 12:30. After some post-hearing follow up with clients, I donned the running attire and headed out to SLOWLY tackle Stillwater hills.
I set the daunting goal of attempting to run hills in such a manner that I would bring my heart rate down as I ascended. I think it's possible, but I certainly wasn't able to do it today. At best, I was able to keep my heart rate from topping 175 - and this is on a hill that takes 2 minutes to run up. I ran five hills
It felt great. I'm very thankful to be running again with it only being 9 days since I ran those 93 miles.
Tonight, Zeke talked me into giving him and Lizzie under-dogs out on the swings. Levi talked me and the older kids into a game of Apples to Apples. Marty talked me and the whole gang into a walk around the block (an additional mile for the log book). I talked the older kids into beginning another MST3K movie, "Attack of the Gila Monsters." I talked no one into anything!
No, seriously. Today was the third and final installment in a rather lengthy hearing. 3 months lengthy. One of the many things I did to prepare for today's installment was to prepare for my post-hearing sanity. This included: shorts, shirt, shoes, water bottle and salt tablets.
We began at 8:30 and finished at 12:30. After some post-hearing follow up with clients, I donned the running attire and headed out to SLOWLY tackle Stillwater hills.
I set the daunting goal of attempting to run hills in such a manner that I would bring my heart rate down as I ascended. I think it's possible, but I certainly wasn't able to do it today. At best, I was able to keep my heart rate from topping 175 - and this is on a hill that takes 2 minutes to run up. I ran five hills
It felt great. I'm very thankful to be running again with it only being 9 days since I ran those 93 miles.
Tonight, Zeke talked me into giving him and Lizzie under-dogs out on the swings. Levi talked me and the older kids into a game of Apples to Apples. Marty talked me and the whole gang into a walk around the block (an additional mile for the log book). I talked the older kids into beginning another MST3K movie, "Attack of the Gila Monsters." I talked no one into anything!
Monday, June 14, 2010
Posts about Kids
I'm working on it. I'm writing descriptions of each of the kids (7) right now. I thought it best to write a little "off blog" about each kid first so that the creative juices get spread out over all the kids a little more evenly.
If I start blogging live, I either start with Emma the oldest or Sadie the youngest. Then, as is typical with most of my life, the writings about the first kids would be less good and funny than subsequent kids. Also, the later kids might just get described in bullet points, while the earlier kids would get full-on, descriptive paragraphs.
Also, there might be days, weeks, even months between each kid's blogs if I try to write them separately. This might cause great confusion among blog readers who 1) might be gearing up to read about each child in quick succession or 2) stumble upon my blog between kid-descriptive blogs and make the horrible mistake of assuming incorrectly that we have 3 children. When you have 7 you really want all assumptions about the number of children to be sufficiently weighty and substantial. No wimpy assumption when the day includes everything from under-dog pushes to college planning, from games of Apples to Apples to incessant drooling due to new teeth.
So, if possible, wait. Descriptive posts about each child are soon in coming.
Oh, today I ran up 4 flights of stairs. In dress shoes. It felt glorious.
Tomorrow, slow repeat hills in downtown Stillwater as a post-hearing stress release.
If I start blogging live, I either start with Emma the oldest or Sadie the youngest. Then, as is typical with most of my life, the writings about the first kids would be less good and funny than subsequent kids. Also, the later kids might just get described in bullet points, while the earlier kids would get full-on, descriptive paragraphs.
Also, there might be days, weeks, even months between each kid's blogs if I try to write them separately. This might cause great confusion among blog readers who 1) might be gearing up to read about each child in quick succession or 2) stumble upon my blog between kid-descriptive blogs and make the horrible mistake of assuming incorrectly that we have 3 children. When you have 7 you really want all assumptions about the number of children to be sufficiently weighty and substantial. No wimpy assumption when the day includes everything from under-dog pushes to college planning, from games of Apples to Apples to incessant drooling due to new teeth.
So, if possible, wait. Descriptive posts about each child are soon in coming.
Oh, today I ran up 4 flights of stairs. In dress shoes. It felt glorious.
Tomorrow, slow repeat hills in downtown Stillwater as a post-hearing stress release.
Runner Post
Anytime someone takes up running, it should be commended.
A friend from church has just started; well, maybe restarted, I'm not certain.
To aid her in her resolve, her sister signed her up for an upcoming 5K.
Check out her new blog site and give her an encouraging word.
In fact, encourage her to not worry so much about running every step (walk a little, and go farther).
A friend from church has just started; well, maybe restarted, I'm not certain.
To aid her in her resolve, her sister signed her up for an upcoming 5K.
Check out her new blog site and give her an encouraging word.
In fact, encourage her to not worry so much about running every step (walk a little, and go farther).
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Friday, June 4, 2010
Blogging about the Kids
Next week, I hope to start blogging a little more frequently and will begin by highlighting each of the seven children in their own blog post. As I have thought about doing this, I have thought about what all of the kids have in common and what they all don't have in common.
Here's my short lists.
In common:
• they are all highly verbal. There is so much conversation in our house that we often have to have periods of no talking. Even Sadie can carry her own "verbal weight." Lizzie's language is a combination of massacred English words, Amharic vowel and consonant sounds, and hysteric excitement.
• they all love to swim
• they all read
• no child is Asian, although several had Mongolian spots when born.
Not in common:
• they fall asleep at different times.
• they each are able to time their interruptions such that there is a constant, unending assault on concentration.
Inviting Interruptions
The Button family bluegrass band will be performing today at the Desiring God picnic at the North Campus site. Larry Agnew was so kind as to invite them and join them on accordion.The kids have spent the last week practicing their set, and in the process, straining the limits of their patience for each other.
Emma will be playing fiddle and guitar, Eli is on fiddle, Grace plays mandolin, and Levi will be a guest singer in two songs.
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