all present and accounted for, all are not all paying attention.

kind of like a circus.

Oh, how many lives are wasted by people who believe that the Christian life means simply avoiding badness and providing for the family. So there is no adultery, no stealing, no killing, no embezzlement, no fraud--just lots of hard work during the day and lots of TV and PG-13 videos in the evening (during quality family time), and lots of fun stuff on the weekend--woven around the church (mostly). This is life for millions of people. Wasted life. We were created for more, far more.

- from John Piper's Don't Waste Your Life

petting baby Ellie

No, it was not planned that Sam would be wearing a very green shirt and Priya a red. I'm just not that coordinated.

ellie sophia eisfeld

eight pounds, thirteen ounces

november one, two thousand nine

Absorbing a small amount of Vitamin D while the sun was out briefly was Sam, looking for worms and special rocks.

The bonnet wasn't quite warm enough for the weather, but Priya's cold was greatly improved by the short walk we took while the sun shone.

Left to her own devices for a few minutes, Anneka helped herself to my eye pencil and decorated herself a few days early. She dressed herself too with the coordinating tank top dress and swimsuit coverup.

a current correlation

Said H.L. Mencken (1880-1965):
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”