Jack asked to hold the baby today.  And then my heart exploded. He did really well.  God knows why he wanted to do it suddenly today, but he kept insisting “Hold baby, hold…

There are just a handful of baby clothes that I will not be handing down to one of my siblings when one of them has a boy.  (Odds are in my favor.  I…

We’ve finally begun to venture forth, now that Li-Li (the goopy name I seem to like calling him) is approaching a month old.  Each outing requires a pack of competent adults to just…

There is a Bible verse I used to love back in the days when I was an evangelical, and though my ardor for daily Bible reading (i.e. self-flagellation and guilt over my not…