When The Hurlyburly's Done

Seven years ago ...

Luke 22:14-23 April 1

those who feel lonely, today's 5^th graders 10704.01

And [Jesus] said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:

For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God. 15-16

Job 20 – Zophar says the wicked man against God will ultimately perish too, like all men, and he'll be destroyed in the sight of man and God.

Today we heard our Easter cantata in fine form, and now we're trying to get Sarah to sleep; we know we need it! Tomorrow is another day, and our parenting will get better!

[Across the page, I started a review – probably the day before, March 31 – of John Twelve Hawks' debut novel The Traveler.]

Over the weekend …

So far I've spent $5.71 this month before work.

I promised with my wife that we would keep track of every penny we spend this month because we want to find out where all our money's going – toward bills, toward food, toward personal enrichment – over a thirty day period. Which April is. But don't worry, I won't be posting it here regularly. I value my happy household. And I learned this morning we have a special artist in my daughter Sarah; one of her class pictures was selected to be displayed at our local art museum (or is the event sponsored by our local art museum? I don't remember right now) and to be exhibited as part of our local art display at this year's North Dakota State Fair. Yesterday morning before I brought Sarah and Jeffrey to work they played two of the games they'd learned in school with me, “Ghosts in the Graveyard” and “Pumpkin Patch”. And nothing beats a good game of hide-and-seek!

Sunday was the day for church, the last day of teaching Sunday school until this fall (Dalyce and I with six 2^nd and 3^rd graders) on Jesus' Trial and Crucifixion, and the rest of the day – with the exception of a walk the four of us took that afternoon and Martha driving to Chamber Chorale that night – found us not leaving the house and lazing around! I'll live with that. Got to finish two books (and one of them I started AND finished Saturday with the kids in our church nursery during Breakfast with the Boys), Karen Ackerman's Song and Dance Man illustrated by Stephen Gammell, the latter for which the book won the Caldecott Medal, ISBN 0590430092, and the 1952 edition of The Pocket Book of Quotations edited by Henry Davidoff, ISBN 0671476224. And the latter's a mite top-heavy on fascist quotes and unheard-of authors (though I did not know the origins of some nursery rhymes) while the former's about a grandfather acting out his glory days in vaudeville for his grandchildren, props included!

When the battle's lost and won, David