Easter Sunday, 2009
Christos vostress! That (or something very like it) means “Christ is risen” in Slovak. The tradition is that you say that to Pap, my grandfather (whose parents were from Czechoslovakia) and then the response, of course, is “Truly He has risen,” (or “He has risen indeed,” whatever) except I can’t remember how to say that […]
Shoe Molding at Last!
Last night was a rough one. First off, since Karen and Phil Mercer were staying the night, Bruce and Harvey kept getting out of bed and going downstairs then coming back up. Then, at about 2:30 it started raining really, really hard. Amanda suddenly remembered that all of the shoe molding that we had stained […]
Mercers at Indochine
Being that today is Good Friday and many people are off of work, I wasn’t expecting it to be too busy for me today, and for the most part it wasn’t. I kept an eye on e-mail and answered any calls that came in, but there weren’t too many. Amanda and I started off the […]
All the Pieces of the Cuthbert Family
Amanda was let off work an hour early today, but I ended up working an hour later. Go figure. Every second Thursday, Port City Community Church has a meeting of all the small group leaders. Usually it’s a group of group leaders under a mentor or mentoring couple, called a pod. You discuss how the […]
Canceled Plans
The answer to the question I posed myself last night is that is doesn’t matter- I can pull the toenail and a new one will grow back or I can leave it on and a new one will grow under it, pushing the old one off when it’s ready. The story of the day is […]
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