Stand by for action!
We knew that we wanted to have kids this year, but little did we know how many other people wanted kids this year, too. The announcement of our pregnancy was a great joy, and yet, it was one of many announcements from other friends, other people in our church community – and so, for us, the last eight months has felt like we have been standing in a slowly-advancing queue. You join the line and shuffle forwards every so often, forming friendships and enjoying comeraderie where you can get it with other people ahead or behind you.
In recent weeks days, it feels like the pregnancy queue has suddenly evaporated ahead of us and we are standing at the head of the line.
We now count down to the expected due date in days instead of months. We’ve successfully converted our spare room into a baby’s room, with all the expected paraphernalia (and some of the unexpected paraphernalia). Antenatal classes are completed and have given us a few shreds of courage with which to face the coming labour. At the last SRE lesson for the term, my Year 4 class were full of questions, not about Joshua and Caleb and Canaan, but about whether we are having a boy or a girl and what names we’ll choose. Lorien is no longer working and people are starting to say things like, “What? Haven’t you had the baby yet?” Yes, it does feel like the End Of The Line.
Hello again (I think)
Looks like I’m back online.
I think my dissatisfaction with weblogging somehow gets sublimated into dissatisfaction with design – after what seems to be a nine-month hiatus, I give to you a new design and, potentially, a jumpstart back into writing words for Internetland. The new design is a go, I think. The inner obsessive is still fiddling with bits of code, so please tell me if something is broken…or, if you know how to fix my hyperlinks (which change black when you click on them, making it hard to find them again).
So, how are you?
Blowing off the dust
Hmmm. It’s been a while. Is there anyone still out there?