There’s always a good chance that matching outfits with your kids will land you on awkwardfamilyphotos.com. But it’s worth the risk when the payoff is 20 minutes of pure joy jumping and playing around with your son.
Some posts from wondermade / Nathan Clark.
Joie de vivre
Wednesday, April 11th, 2012Sometimes thing just work out
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
It’s hard to go wrong with red, black and white.
Side effects vs net effect
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012For the last weeks I’ve been on various medicine to combat some respiratory illnesses. Despite the promise of modern medicine, my recovery has been slower than advertised.
Obviously that’s not ideal. For countless reasons I’d like to have fully functional lungs back again. But it’s given me a great chance to weigh the costs of side effects vs the promise of net effect.
Over the time I’ve been on these meds I’ve experienced many of the listed side effects: Nausea, vertigo, accelerated heartbeats, insomnia, acid reflux, uneven body temperature, moodiness and a general haze over my mind.
The illness I’m trying to fight off caused breathing difficulties and fatigue.
Which is worse? Generally we accept the side effects because wellness is the worth the brief costs. But it’s not something we accept by way of specific decision each time. In my particular instance the side effects were only a part of the discussion in that they were listed on the meds.
So the question I keep wrestling with is whether I would’ve recovered naturally. Clearly, I haven’t recovered yet with meds so perhaps if I’d done nothing I’d be worse off. But if I’d avoided the meds I would’ve had a few weeks of insomnia-free sleep. I would’ve likely enjoyed slightly more regular body function and metabolism too.
Most of the time this isn’t something that comes up. You take the medicine, you get better, you stop taking the meds and the side effects and illness are both gone. But with my fifth visit to the doctor on Friday there’s a good chance I’ll get to decide whether the hopeful net gain is worth more side loss.
Everyone can speak the love and trust of Jesus
Monday, March 5th, 2012Hunter was grateful for what had been said, grateful that it helped to lift the pain. He would never forget how a president became, for a moment, a pastor and a grieving pastor could only receive and the lines between the political left and right were dissolved by the greater force of faith.
We should all spend more time at the beach
Sunday, March 4th, 2012In 45 minutes we can go from our home to the beach. Over the last 5 years we’ve made that trip nearly every month. It’s hard to imagine a place where our whole family finds more joy and release and love than in the time we spend running and building and toppling and swimming and bird chasing. Four sleepers on most drives home doesn’t hurt either.
As the weather warms and the days lengthen, we’ll start going from monthly trips to weekly trips. By the time summer strikes we’ll probably need all our fingers to count our waterfront back-and-forths. For now we’re just happy we could finally take the year’s first proper Atlantic excursion.
Par for course
Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
Someone’s usually upside down and it’s par for course that we’re all looking in different places.
Waffle iron sandwich press: best idea ever
Friday, March 2nd, 2012
Today we took an amazing bandwidth – mesquite grilled sliced turkey with avocado, havariti cheese and bacon on fresh bread – and made it even better. All it took was pressing the sandwich… on a waffle iron.
The key is to simmer the bread in a little butter first, then put the lightly cooked side on the inside of the sandwich. Then butter the outside, set it on the waffle iron and give it a minute. Seriously one of the best sandwiches I’ve had in a very long time.
Take photos
Thursday, March 1st, 2012There’s nothing quite like stopping everything for 15 minutes to take pictures with your child. Like every experience it will fade, but uniquely the record of this interaction will stick around for a while.
Three problems with Netflix
Wednesday, February 29th, 20121. Compare what’s at Redbox and what’s at Netflix. Which has more films you’d prefer to watch?
2. Compare what’s at Netflix and what DVDs are available… at Netflix. It’s a problem when your best service is the one you hide.
3. There’s almost always something better I could do with my time than watch anything. That’s not a truth I should receive from a company that only makes money if I prioritize watching videos. But every time I look at their top 10 recommendation, I can only imagine someone in their engineering department really wants me to spend more time reading.
Preparations
Tuesday, February 28th, 2012Hopefully when Friday comes neither Harper or I will be sick. I’m hoping that for a lot of reasons, chiefly because Northland’s Daddy Daughter Dance is Friday and she’s been looking forward to it since the last one ended.
There’s not much to do in advance, but this year we’re supposed to submit photos beforehand that they’ll run during the event on the big screen. Surprisingly there are few photos of the two of us in the last year, so we took this pair today.
All that’s left now is to stay no sicker than we already are.
