Purpose

tradition

• breakfast work
  Three years ago, while Jeremy was still in Georgia getting our house together to sell and I was living here alone with four children, I started reading the Bible to the kids over breakfast.
• the lure of slow living: on paying attention
  I am drowning, I wrote to myself in my journal. No, that’s not right. I’m being bricked in. It was a few weeks after Beatrice was born. I was already back in the swing of things–I had been since her second
• father’s day, 2019

homemaking

• kransling the eighth (month five.one)
  week 17 obstinate baby This week I had a doctor’s appointment. It was a very fast visit. The longest part of the appointment was trying to find baby’s heartbeat. It took long enough that I was starting to
• baking eclairs, nov. 14
  Ephraim is always asking to make things in the kitchen. I had been sitting on this eclair recipe for a few days hoping that I would have enough energy one afternoon to try them. He saw the page
• gallimaufry, oct. 2021
  It’s Thursday afternoon, close enough to lunch that everyone’s done eating but not so far from it that we’re done cleaning up. I am sitting next to the bathtub on a tiny chair; Aurick is in the tub–alone,
• out of the mouths of babes
  Mama: You don’t have to worry about making bad scrambled eggs, Ephraim. Lots of times we make bad food. I’ve made bad food lots of times! Anselm: You don’t make lots of bad food, Mama! Clive: Don’t lie
• the first instance of nesting for eighth kransling
  One of the more miserable parts of the first trimester funk is knowing how badly you need to do things but not being able to do them. Nine weeks was a bad week for me, and I spent

homeschooling

• king saul & captain hook
  Hook was profoundly dejected. […] Good form! However much he may have degenerated, he still knew that this is all that really matters. From far within him he heard a creaking as of rusty portals, and through them came
• Some scary Schubert music videos
  A couple of the Kranslings have a taste for “scary music”. I can relate, since as a child I used to listen to Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain” until I was so scared I couldn’t go in the basement.
• reading (or, re-reading) plan for 2020
  I’ve been thinking about books. There are a few (very few) I want to re-read–slowly–and then write about while re-reading. Or after I’ve re-read them. Or something like that.

motherhood

• eighth kransling (month six.one-three)
  21 weeks
• kransling the eighth (month five.one)
  week 17 obstinate baby This week I had a doctor’s appointment. It was a very fast visit. The longest part of the appointment was trying to find baby’s heartbeat. It took long enough that I was starting
• baking eclairs, nov. 14
  Ephraim is always asking to make things in the kitchen. I had been sitting on this eclair recipe for a few days hoping that I would have enough energy one afternoon to try them. He saw the