(What Would Douglas Wilson Download?)
So in case you haven’t noticed, I’ve been a bit absent. I miss you all, really I do. And special thanks to those of you (you know who you are) who take time to remind me of my obvious abdication of blogging duties. Too much to say and not enough time to distill the brilliance. But you knew that already. And there are all those crafts I’ve been doing.
To make up for my Femina neglect (and since I still have nothing at all of interest to say), I’ve decided to stage a contest. Continue reading ‘WWDWD?’
Today we had our sweet cousin Ameera over to play and busted out the golden oldie of paper plate hats. What can’t you do with a glue gun, pipe cleaners, some splashy ribbon and enormous paper flowers? After the initial tea party in the fairy palace we turned the fairy hats into fairy belts so we could run with greater fairy alacrity. This particular little sunshine is Daphne.
Spring has come just in time to be summer. The snow is gone and look what magic is happening right out of the ground on the end of long green prickly sticks. They know it’s June, and so they are doing their dance all around my front porch. And what a welcome for my Merkle gang who will be arriving here tomorrow! Happy Summer!
A few years back I wrote a newsletter called The Minister’s Wife, and it was mailed to a handful of wives of pastors around the country, mostly in the CREC. But I got side-tracked and it didn’t last very long. I’m thinking of resurrecting it as an email newsletter to those pastors’ wives out there who would like to receive it. It will not be published on my blog, but rather just sent out to a list of email “subscribers” who would like to receive it.
So, if you are interested, you can leave a comment here, and I will email you back with more information. You do not need to be married to a minister who is pastoring in a church in our denomination. Any pastor’s wives interested are welcome. And if your husband is preparing for the ministry and not yet ordained, you are certainly welcome as well. I will be addressing practical topics that I think might be of help or interest, and you will be able to email me any specific questions or topics you would like me to address. As a minister’s wife of over thirty years, I hope I can be encouraging to you.
When you leave a comment, you don’t need to leave any more information, but when I email you in return, I’d be interested to know a few things about you: what denomination your church is in, how long your husband has been in the ministry, and what part of the U.S. (or what country!) you are in.
I will try to send a “newsletter” once a month, Lord willing. So let me know if you are interested!
Back a couple of months ago, my husband and Matt Whitling did a conference called Spring Cleaning, which had to do with raising children. Matt and Doug are a great combo: Matt addressed issues particularly related to raising little ones, and Doug’s topics had to do with older children. It was fabulous. So if you want to listen to the tapes, and I heartily recommend them to all parents, just click here and you’ll get Canon Press and how to order.
Also, since I am plugging good teaching, if you would like to download some good stuff by my father-in-law Jim Wilson, you can go here. If you have never heard Jim, you are in for a real treat. He has several specialties, particularly his teaching on bitterness, as well as his talk on parents and raising children. His practical Christian teaching is what started all “this” in Moscow back in the early seventies.
A bunch of you have heard me write or talk about the jammy ride. But I feel I should bring it up just in case someone out there doesn’t know what a jammy ride is. Or perhaps you’ve forgotten about it. I would hate to feel like anyone was going to live through another summer with little kids around and not have at least one jammy ride.
Here’s what it is. We would get the kids bathed and jammied and put in bed and prayed over and then we would say our goodnights. A few minutes later my husband would holler, “Jammy ride!” and the kids would all tumble out of bed and come running. Then we would pack them up into the car and head off somewhere usually involving ice cream followed by a drop-in on the grandparents.
I tell you those were the big hits. If it was cold or snowy out, we threw an afghan or blanket in the back with the kids. If it was summertime, it was usually still light out and tough for the kids to get to sleep anyway.
There. My conscience is clear. Now you have no excuse for not scheduling at least one jammy ride this summer!
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