A City Life For Me

On Saturday we were headed to see the sights of New York since Danielle is in town.  Ben’s brother Evan came down from Connecticut for the day to join us (he was unable to visit over July 4th with the rest of the family).  [ Picture: Danielle, Andrea, Evan at the subway station ] Evan is a great guy with a great sense of humor.  We haven’t spent quality time with Evan since January, so this was a nice day!  We visited Boro Park (the orthodox Jewish neighborhood), the Statue of Liberty, Central Park, and took in a couple of other little things. Brothers: Evan & Ben on Liberty Island with the NYC skyline in the background       Evan & Elaine with Lady Liberty Evan tried really hard (and eventually succeeded) in getting Elaine to smile!   Ben found a crevice in Central Park and dared Evan to get in.  So Evan did.  And then Elaine joined him! Uncles are supposed to be silly…so I guess that make Evan a good uncle!   ...

…but it’s better when they are together in person!   Danielle, Me, Elaine, Samantha, Erika, Baby Kevin My “bestest” girlfriend Danielle DeVane came to visit!  She lives in Florida and we have not spent a decent amount of time together since college, except for the little bit of time at my wedding in October 2007, and a few days in July, 2008.  We enjoyed the girl stuff…shopping, city sites, ice cream, and Elaine.  On Friday we drove two hours to Donny & Erika Meader’s house, and Samantha Kane joined us from Maine.  The four of us were pals in college.  It was so great to be together again.  We all got to meet Kevin Douglas, Erika’s 3 week old baby boy.  We talked about going out, but in the end we spent the whole day talking and catching up.  So much fun!   Erika’s little man.  He slept the whole time! Elaine really liked baby Kevin.  She made her excited noises (like when she sees the kitty).  She wanted to touc...

As I blogged here , I am reading Voices of the True Woman Movement to review for Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Leigh DeMoss .  Today I will discuss chapter 2, “From Him, Through Him, To Him,” by Nancy. This chapter was fantastic, and my heart is still overflowing from the truths it reveals.  Though it is nothing new to me, I needed to be reminded of many things, and God gave it to me at just the right time!  I marked so many things in my book that I cannot share all of them with you, but I will do my best to highlight the theme.  This chapter follows well on the heels of John Piper’s introductory chapter entitled The Ultimate Meaning of True Womanhood .  For in chapter two, Nancy describes the ultimate purpose of true womanhood as finding God’s purpose.  She says on page that “everything finds its true meaning and purpose in God’s meaning and purpose.”  How true that is! The Scriptural basis for this chapter is Romans 11.  The Apostle Paul fin...

Elaine has developed a fascination with the piano…following in Mommy’s footsteps!  She loves to stand on the bench and plunk around, and she even turns the pages in the hymnbook now and then! I think we will designate this hymnbook as Elaine’s.  It is getting very wrinkled!

We have shutter-style doors between our master bedroom and Elaine’s bedroom/the living room.  They haven’t quite hung properly or closed completely or locked since we moved in.  Ben said that it would involve a lot of work to fix, so we just lived with it.  However, last night Ben was motivated to work on a home improvement project.  He really wanted the doors to be able to lock for visitors and convenience.  So…the doors came off the hinges and the tool bag came out of the closet. The first door was fixed relatively easy, but in order to get the doors to close Ben had to get out the saw and shave some edge off of the second door.  It was more involved than planned, but he did a good job! Elaine was ever so curious about the whole thing, and it was my difficult job to keep her on the other end of the house and away from sharp and dangerous tools. As you can see, I was not quite successful!  I was very pre-occupied working on my Diaper Blog. At one...

I would like you all to bear witness with me to this auspicious day in history.  On this the 26th day of July, in the year of our Lord two thousand ten, Elaine’s best friend (commonly known as “Bunny”) received a bath! Elaine rarely lets Bunny out of her sight.  In fact, recently she has started crawling back into a room to retrieve him and drag him along with her.  It is very difficult to get Bunny for a cycle in the washer.  But, alas, after being dropped on the sidewalk and in train stations, and a rough week of Summer Adventure Club, it was inevitable – Bunny needed a bath! A little less significant, but worth mentioning none the less, is that today Ben and I have been married for 33 months today.  And on Saturday, we passed the 1000 days of marriage mark.  I meant to write a blog for that, but I forgot!