Again, only of interest for those who wish to pray… This month, our prayer is: Thy Will Be Done! For Christmas, I was given a book about Spindrift, an organization that did scientific experiments into the efficacy of prayer from the 70s to the 90s. Nowadays, one sees research into prayer all the time. My church…
This weekend being Juss’s birthday, we decided to take advantage of the free weekend at ZooAmerica at Hershey’s park in Hershey’s PA. We knew about this thanks to my friend Sharon, who had sent us a link about it. Apparently, the weekend was free, and they had groundhog activities. So, we played hooky from…
Juss: “Two days to my birthday!”Mommy: “Right!”Juss: “Then, tomorrow, it will be one day!:Mommy: “Right!”Juss: “Then the day after that, it will be zero days!”Mommy: “And the day after that it will be 364 days to your next birthday.”Juss: “Oh, Maaaaan!”
“Mom!” Juss calls from the Bedroom when he’s supposed to be sleeping, “Where’s Arko? I can’t find him?” ??? Anyone else’s children lose or misplace their invisible friends? I should have known this kid was going to be trouble ever since the time he cried because he left his imaginary skateboard in the car, back…
Boy, I haven’t been here in like, forever! I wonder where I’ve been… Preparing for the fifth birthday of son #3. For so long, he was the baby while the others were little tykes, it’s amazing to seem him up and about and excelling at practically everything (except keeping his temper.) He’s been talking about…
I spent several amusing hours this weekend writing character sketches for my upcoming series. I was having a little trouble translated the characters from the roleplaying game where they originated to the paper. Then, I came upon a scene in a Harry Dresden book by Jim Butcher that seemed like the perfect vehicle for exploring…
I grew up in the “Anti-Victorian” generation of the 60s and 70s. Of all sins and crimes, hypocrisy was the worst, the ultimate of evil. A parent saying “Do as I say, not as I do” was mocked and derided. What a hypocrite! What an idiot! So, once I became a mom, I tried…
Last Sunday, I had Child Room duties at Church. This particular day, it was just me and Juss. After our own puppet show, we got into a conversation about his imaginary brothers. (Recently, he told me that there are 16 of them.) I was curious whether I was the mother of these invisible brothers, so I asked Juss…
Last year, we adopted the Christmas tradition of having the children give something to charity. At the suggestion of a friend, we chose Heifer.org, a wonderfully cool organization that gives poor people living animals and teaches them how to use them, so that they can make a living from them — rather than just giving them…
Folks, thanks to the discerning eye of our friend Evil Dave, this blog is no longer about the Minks of Arhyalon (Vison) and has returned to the original purpose of being Visions — with the second ‘i’ — of Arhyalon. (A vison is a type of mink. ) And for those of you who are…