Posted in The Fatherhood Chronicles on Sunday, 13 July 2008 | 2 Comments »
Struggling to Rest
I think most parents know the difficult challenge of the naptime struggle. The little ones are still learning how to release all the energy they’ve got pent up inside them. They need, even unconsciously yearn, for sleep, but they cannot enter into the rest that is waiting for them.
Parental skills are [...]
Posted in The Fatherhood Chronicles on Monday, 30 June 2008 | No Comments »
Domestic Dad
We had a good weekend, the girls and I. Lots of cuddling, playing, praying. New routines, old routines.
As we’ve done every two weeks (on payday weekends) since the first of May, the girls and I headed to our nearest Trader Joe’s to buy groceries for the fortnight. The girls thoroughly enjoy [...]
Posted in Church Fathers, The Fatherhood Chronicles on Tuesday, 24 June 2008 | No Comments »
Hmmm. Maybe it really is the case that while Daddy has Jesus in his heart, Sofie and Delaina have Baby Jesus in their hearts:
For He came to save all through means of Himself—all, I say, who through Him are born again to God—infants, and children, and boys, and youths, and old men. He therefore [...]
Posted in Prayer, The Fatherhood Chronicles on Tuesday, 24 June 2008 | 3 Comments »
As I’ve said before in my wrestling on this: The struggle of faith in the midst of pain and suffering is not, I do not think, a question of God’s existence (though it may come to that), as it is a question of God’s goodness. It is not a question, it does not seem to [...]
Posted in The Fatherhood Chronicles on Saturday, 21 June 2008 | 1 Comment »
Lord, help me to find a way to find my way to something like this:
The Team Hoyt Website
Posted in The Fatherhood Chronicles on Thursday, 15 May 2008 | No Comments »
Be Still, My Beeping Heart
Sofie supplied some neat quotes yesterday morning that still give me chuckles.
She, Delaina and I were in the common room, Delaina and I on the couch, Sofie standing in front of us. We were getting them dressed in their play clothes for the day. As she was getting dressed, [...]
Posted in The Fatherhood Chronicles on Monday, 4 February 2008 | 1 Comment »
Delaina Feeds the Squirrels
So, I stepped out of the shower yesterday, and walked into the kitchen. I felt something crunchy under my feet. There on the floor were scattered a few, as I soon learned, tiny handfuls of peanuts. On the girls’ table was the open can from which the peanuts had come. My first [...]
Posted in The Fatherhood Chronicles on Friday, 21 December 2007 | 1 Comment »
Sofie’s First Christmas Pageant
Sofie, as my blogreaders know, began this school term to attend the Preschool at the Guardian Angel Center for Child Development (a ministry of St John the Baptist Orthodox Church). It is a great gift and blessing to us that she has been able so to do (and with the added benefit, [...]
Posted in The Fatherhood Chronicles on Friday, 14 December 2007 | No Comments »
Sofie and the Joseph Dream
Sofie goes to a Greek Orthodox preschool, and quite properly they are doing a lot of discussion about the coming Feast of the Lord’s Nativity. Well, as I was getting ready this morning, Sofie wanted to tell me about her dream.
It seems that an alligator was going to get her, and [...]
Posted in The Fatherhood Chronicles on Saturday, 17 November 2007 | 2 Comments »
It is absolutely amazing to me how fast the day can go while taking care of the girls. Take yesterday for example: We got up, I got the girls breakfast, dressed them, got all four of us out the door, to Anna’s orthodontist appointment, to the church, to Trader Joe’s, and then it was home [...]
Posted in The Fatherhood Chronicles on Friday, 16 November 2007 | 1 Comment »
Just like last year, Anna went with several women of the parish to the monastery in Rives Junction, Michigan. The girls and I took Anna to the church building. We said the Trisagion prayers and Father prayed a travel blessing over them all. (We also spoke briefly to Father Pat about the girls’ baptisms, but [...]
Posted in The Fatherhood Chronicles on Monday, 8 October 2007 | 3 Comments »
Well, we check out later this morning and head back home. It’s been a good trip.
Yesterday we headed into St. Joseph and had a good time walking around and in and out of several stores. We purchased a couple of kites for the girls which we will take out to the beach this [...]
Posted in The Fatherhood Chronicles on Saturday, 6 October 2007 | No Comments »
It’s 08:01 Michigan time, as the girls and I are up playing in the TV and play room of the River’s Edge Bed and Breakfast, in Union Pier. I have been looking forward to this little weekend getaway for some time. Last year about this time we took what was our first family vacation (i.e., [...]
Posted in The Fatherhood Chronicles on Monday, 10 September 2007 | 1 Comment »
Sofie Goes to School
Although I’ve been blogging less, and did not commemorate Sofie’s first day of preschool with a blog post, it was, nonetheless, a big, big day.
Anna and I have talked about, looked into, and prayed about preschool for Sofie. On the one hand, we both were utterly disgusted by those parents around [...]
Posted in The Fatherhood Chronicles on Wednesday, 29 August 2007 | 2 Comments »
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