If I haven’t written much this week on most of my blogs, well, it’s because I’ve been pretty busy.
One of the major transitions Jaimie and I have already gone through is that I’ve picked up some extra work on the side. I now spend 10-15 hours a week doing back end web development consulting work. Read on, intrepid explorer →
You may have more discipline than I do. But for me, the mission is everything; I’m downright religious about it. Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange have been wildly successful, but I finally realized that success at the cost of my children is not success. It is failure.
—Joel SpolskyJeff Atwood, “Farewell Stack Exchange”, Coding Horror
Two days in a row, now, I have called Jaimie on my way home from work. A rough transcript of the beginning of each conversation:
“Hello, Jaimie Dawn.”
“Hi! *belch*“
“You burped!”
“Yes. *giggle* Are you coming home now?”
Two days in a row. I’m eagerly awaiting today’s conversation to see if it happens again. Read on, intrepid explorer →
I just felt baby girl kicking and moving around for the first time!
It is one of the coolest, strangest, most awesome, most mind-boggling things I have ever felt. There is a little person in there, growing – now big enough that when she moves and pushes or kicks against the womb, I can feel it. Read on, intrepid explorer →
One evening recently, Jaimie went to bed early. I stayed up late working. Around 11pm, she walked out of our bedroom and stared at me, then proceeded to tell me about a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream, each one involving waking up in her bed – and several of them involving coming out and talking to me. Read on, intrepid explorer →
Jaimie Dawn writes well (as always) – and piercingly, too.
If you know me, you know how works-oriented I am, constantly thinking that I need to meet my Christian quota in order to earn or maintain God’s love. You’d think I would want someone to debunk that myth for me. Many loved ones and mentors have tried. I always thought I wasn’t getting over my works-guilt-complex because of some personal inability to do so, but on reading the aforementioned quote, I suddenly realized that I didn’t want to get over the complex. I didn’t want to pray for God to provide my needs and let him answer. I didn’t want to glorify God, because I want to do it myself.
The only way to get a clear picture…