Locks of dread...
Keelin's hair is very long and flows prettily down her back. Being six-and-a-half, she doesn't quite understand how to brush all of it yet. When she was quite little, she'd just brush the front that she could see and thought she'd done it all. Now, she brushes till she hits something and then takes the brush out and goes somewhere else with it. Of course, she tells you that yes, she's just brushed her hair, but you can see from above the messy lumps she avoided. Does she want help? No, of course not. She repeats this for days. Actually, if she could avoid brushing it altogether, that would be her first choice. She hides her tangles for a while by keeping her hair up in a pony tail. Eventual

ten kinds of weird.
"I feel ten kinds of weird today," I told Melanie on our way downstairs to the basement of the Underground this morning for Bible study.We got downstairs and set down our stuff, and I proceeded to go make coffee. I walked into the kitchen area, when Melanie exclaimed, "Hey, look at the floor."There was a huge puddle of water on the floor. I hadn't even noticed it as I walked right through it to go to the kitchen.Make that eleven.I feel just "off" today. I really did try to be "on." I think it's the Monday thing. I tried to be SuperMom as I cooked rolls and cinnamon rolls for us all this morning before school, packed hot lunches for the kids

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Under the lights...
I coach Keelin's soccer team. A few weeks back, I was approached with a fantastic invitation to bring our team to play at halftime of the Nanaimo United (Division 1 Women) soccer game last Saturday night. We'd been to this particular field before just recently, but not at night. Way more impressive at night! We drove up to park. All lit up, it might as well have been Dodger stadium. I felt that same sense of wonder. We'd made it to the bigs.Keelin was adorable. Before we left the house, she had made sure to wear a headband to pull her bangs back. We went to see her thirteen-year old "cousin" play a couple weeks ago at this field on Sunday afternoon (why we'd been there). Before

Costumes and compromises....
November 3, 2009Wow, last week was a whirlwind!Halloween ended up being a whole lot of fun this year. For one, it didn't rain. Secondly, I've finally arrived at the big Halloween promotion. I don't have to walk up and ring the doorbell at every house. I am an end-of-the-driveway Trick-Or-Treater Supervisor now! Yipee! However, the whole Halloween season started out, I could tell, very hard for Candan. He's not ever super big on the day in the beginning of October. He tells me that first day or so of the month that he'd just prefer me buying him a box of chocolate and being done with it (I'd be more than okay with that!). As the month progresses, he usually figures so