Family – Page 13 – The Lutheran Zephyr

Bachelor for a week

My wife and daughters – ages 3 and 9 months – are driving on Wednesday & Thursday with Grandma and Grandpa to Georgia for my brother-in-law’s graduation from college. I don’t have enough vacation time from work to go, so I’ll be home alone – a bachelor – for nearly a week (they return onContinue reading “Bachelor for a week”

Details of Caring For a Sick Baby

Since Wednesday night neither my wife nor I have gotten more than 2 hours of contiguous sleep. It’s been rough for us, but not as bad as it has been for our 9 month-old baby, Cana (she turns 9 months tomorrow!). What follows is a cathartic release, a need for this exhausted father to tellContinue reading “Details of Caring For a Sick Baby”

Daddy Daycare

Last weekend my wife was away at a women’s retreat, leaving me with the girls for two days. We had a great weekend – exhausting with only one parent, yes, but a ton of fun. It was a foretaste, so to speak, of the feast that is to come this summer when Daddy Daycare comesContinue reading “Daddy Daycare”

I’m here. Really.

Though I haven’t blogged in a week – a longer hiatus than most of my declared blogging hiatuses – I’m here. The CPE residency has been particularly powerful yet draining over these past few weeks, both on the floor with patients and in the pastoral formation/self-learning side of the program. I also preached last Sunday,Continue reading “I’m here. Really.”

All Alleluia-ed Out!

I took this picture minutes after getting home from Easter Sunday worship. Cana (the baby) was screaming. She’s hungry, I assumed. I put her in the high chair and went into the kitchen to get her food ready. When I came back I found her asleep. I guess all those Alleluias knocked her out! BigContinue reading “All Alleluia-ed Out!”