patience

I prefer the highway

As a photographer the one thing you learn early on is that to get ‘the’ shot, you need to show patience. As a parent… the first thing you learn early on is that you need to show patience… in fact, in any role you find yourself, you will probably be called upon to show patience.Continue reading “I prefer the highway”

beautifully normal

An interesting thing happened today. Normalcy. For the past few days I couldn’t see past this new mountain to see the horizon. I used to live in the mountains in Austria and every once and a while I would need to escape to breathe, I would get claustrophobic if I couldn’t see the horizon. ThatContinue reading “beautifully normal”

lessons in teaching

The other day I was at a birthday party for a sweet little two year old boy, it was a BBQ and there were a lot of kids running around ranging from 20 months to four years old. As the food was being put out the mothers all gathered around the table to get foodContinue reading “lessons in teaching”

Potty time has come to our house… yes, you heard me correctly. I am trying (so far in vain) to get Josh out of diapers and onto the potty. So far I have had no success, one pee in the potty but now that 24 hours have passed since that momentous event I fear thatContinue reading “Patience”

Waiting for patience impatiently

I have been alive a loooong time… (no I won’t say exactly what a loooong time is) and in all that time I have been impatient. I used to say ‘God made me this way, surly he likes me the way he made me, he doesn’t make mistakes’, but alas I think that the realityContinue reading “Waiting for patience impatiently”