"what in the world?? we have to make the bed!"
"hey, mama, i have a surprise for you...B the Beeeeee.." (short for bob the builder. yep, my kid spells.)
"when my mama goes to minnesota, i say 'yes, mama. okay, mama' then i pinch and hit!" (joseph's remix of the kind and respectful joseph bourne linneman song.)
"i'm going to sing a song about don't step on judy."
"when we went to the broken ice cream store, the ice cream went woop! and it was broken. but now it's fixed. i call it the working ice cream store." (regarding mcdonalds.)
"working ice cream store. sha-boom." (later as i relayed our conversation to jeremy)
and my favorite oh my goodness can't stop laughing for some reason:
"my friend peter, he has a fan in his garage! his dad's name is ang. like anger. but ang." (the first completely fabricated story he's attempted to make us believe. serious cre-a-tivity.)
meanwhile, from the jude-meister, we had laughing dog barking new sounds i've never heard come out of him while he was awake sign language for friends-ing in the middle of the night last night. okay, it was 11, but it felt like the middle of the night. either way, i could not bring myself to attempt to get him back to sleep until he stopped making himself laugh.
amazing.
8.09.2012
7.22.2012
a sweet gift
joseph bourne linneman just filled up my love tank. for reals.
that boy and i spent seriously almost an hour sitting on the couch. talking. mostly him to me. with wide eyes and songs scattered throughout the string of thoughts of what we were reading making him think of something and what that made him think of and sigh.
that boy and i spent seriously almost an hour sitting on the couch. talking. mostly him to me. with wide eyes and songs scattered throughout the string of thoughts of what we were reading making him think of something and what that made him think of and sigh.
good sigh.
i know for a fact that my currently-in-minnesota husband has to be triple-quadruple praying for our time here at home, because it has been good. so good.
thank you, Lord. for real.
this one's alright, too. i guess. :)
6.27.2012
6.14.2012
just keep going
hmmm..i actually just sighed while this page was loading. because i have wanted to write but i haven't known what to write.
and that drives me crazy! and makes me eat ice cream. which isn't so bad.
joseph called his brother "judy" for most of this morning. it was kind of amazing.
and i've had to help jude (sorry -- judy) back to sleep about twelve times since putting him to sleep two hours ago. (twelve being my go-to number for exaggeration and the actual amount of times i've had to help him)
and that has been june. and may. we've had some rough weeks/month/month and a half/or so. but we've had some good in there too.
i'm not just trying to go all look on the bright side on you. although there is a bright side.
unless that sound i hear is joseph getting out of bed; then, there is no bright side. and i will quit.
not really.
but yeah, we've had some hard days around the linneman home. we've had sickness. and sickness. a babe who can't sleep. a toddler learning to be angry in new ways. a mama who likes to escape into wedding decoration world while her children are wanting her eye contact. five extra dogs in the apartment that already housed two dogs. dogs that bark. whiiiile babes are trying to sleep.
what's weird is that nothing has actually been that bad. it's just been a lot all at the same time. which also happened to be the time we had thought life was going to coast into summer (easy) mode.
we've been broken. lots. which has been really hard. and when it's been hard, my thoughts have been "this is dumb." "i just want to look at mason jar pictures on pinterest." "this is stupid." "i quit." and "my life is a joke." (that one happened when the double feature toy story AND toy story 2 were dropped out of the window of our moving vehicle at precisely the spot on the road my husband would kill me for trying to rescue it. i didn't try. okay, i almost did.)
and, at the same time as all of the above, i know that i've been sustained. God has sustained us. this hard season has been hopeful in that way -- in the way that a horrible (horrible) morning transforms into naptime and afternoon and after a breakdown, i'm washing dishes. and not crying. because i've been sustained.
it's been a season thick with this low-level sometimes makes me feel wimpy but sometimes makes me want to realllly over-dramatize it suffering. and when i look at my journal, my prayers, parts of the bible that have jumped out at me, it's thick with His work. which is amazing.
so, while i don't think this hard season is over, and i don't have the looking back now that it's easy conclusion that i'm sure would be pretty revolutionary, i can see that this is a season of abundance at the same time as being hard. i am seeing God revealing my heart and my need for Him and for friends and for help and for His word.
bright side.
oh, also, i don't have any pictures. (don't worry, things haven't been so bad that i wouldn't take pictures -- our camera went to france with our friends, and i have just been slow getting it back) sorrry :) if i did have any though, they'd for sure be of jude's two front teeth. so cute. and i'd probably show you the massive amount of mason jars on our piano excitedly anticipating their transformation into wedding centerpieces.
oh, and also, something that's been really amazing in our lives is this new way joseph takes something we tell him is going to happen and turns it into a surprise for us. he's still working on the surprise concept. case in point: me -- "joseph, we're going to have oatmeal for breakfast." joseph -- "mama, there's a surprise in the cabinet....it's something we eat for breakfast! it's..... (opens cabinet) OATMEAL!"
see? bright side. another one!
"for you, o God, have tested us;
you have tried us as silver is tried.
you brought us into the net;
you laid a crushing burden on our backs;
you let men ride over our heads;
we went through fire and through water;
yet you have brought us out to a place of abundance." -- psalm 66:10-12
and that drives me crazy! and makes me eat ice cream. which isn't so bad.
joseph called his brother "judy" for most of this morning. it was kind of amazing.
and i've had to help jude (sorry -- judy) back to sleep about twelve times since putting him to sleep two hours ago. (twelve being my go-to number for exaggeration and the actual amount of times i've had to help him)
and that has been june. and may. we've had some rough weeks/month/month and a half/or so. but we've had some good in there too.
i'm not just trying to go all look on the bright side on you. although there is a bright side.
unless that sound i hear is joseph getting out of bed; then, there is no bright side. and i will quit.
not really.
but yeah, we've had some hard days around the linneman home. we've had sickness. and sickness. a babe who can't sleep. a toddler learning to be angry in new ways. a mama who likes to escape into wedding decoration world while her children are wanting her eye contact. five extra dogs in the apartment that already housed two dogs. dogs that bark. whiiiile babes are trying to sleep.
what's weird is that nothing has actually been that bad. it's just been a lot all at the same time. which also happened to be the time we had thought life was going to coast into summer (easy) mode.
we've been broken. lots. which has been really hard. and when it's been hard, my thoughts have been "this is dumb." "i just want to look at mason jar pictures on pinterest." "this is stupid." "i quit." and "my life is a joke." (that one happened when the double feature toy story AND toy story 2 were dropped out of the window of our moving vehicle at precisely the spot on the road my husband would kill me for trying to rescue it. i didn't try. okay, i almost did.)
and, at the same time as all of the above, i know that i've been sustained. God has sustained us. this hard season has been hopeful in that way -- in the way that a horrible (horrible) morning transforms into naptime and afternoon and after a breakdown, i'm washing dishes. and not crying. because i've been sustained.
it's been a season thick with this low-level sometimes makes me feel wimpy but sometimes makes me want to realllly over-dramatize it suffering. and when i look at my journal, my prayers, parts of the bible that have jumped out at me, it's thick with His work. which is amazing.
so, while i don't think this hard season is over, and i don't have the looking back now that it's easy conclusion that i'm sure would be pretty revolutionary, i can see that this is a season of abundance at the same time as being hard. i am seeing God revealing my heart and my need for Him and for friends and for help and for His word.
bright side.
oh, also, i don't have any pictures. (don't worry, things haven't been so bad that i wouldn't take pictures -- our camera went to france with our friends, and i have just been slow getting it back) sorrry :) if i did have any though, they'd for sure be of jude's two front teeth. so cute. and i'd probably show you the massive amount of mason jars on our piano excitedly anticipating their transformation into wedding centerpieces.
oh, and also, something that's been really amazing in our lives is this new way joseph takes something we tell him is going to happen and turns it into a surprise for us. he's still working on the surprise concept. case in point: me -- "joseph, we're going to have oatmeal for breakfast." joseph -- "mama, there's a surprise in the cabinet....it's something we eat for breakfast! it's..... (opens cabinet) OATMEAL!"
see? bright side. another one!
"for you, o God, have tested us;
you have tried us as silver is tried.
you brought us into the net;
you laid a crushing burden on our backs;
you let men ride over our heads;
we went through fire and through water;
yet you have brought us out to a place of abundance." -- psalm 66:10-12
5.07.2012
buzz
"i'm buzz lightyear."
it's what sweet boy says when he wakes up in the morning. sometimes the very first thing he says. same thing with naps.
it's occasionally what he says when i tell him that he isn't supposed to be doing something.
as in, "hey joseph, it's too early to play the piano."
"i'm buzz lightyear."
"hey buzz, it's too early to play the piano."
also, the rest of buzz's family has been assigned our respective characters. jeremy is mr. potato head. jude is rex the dinosaur. i'm woody. (i'm kind of glad i'm not jessie)
sometimes, joseph will tell a story, and i'll have to decipher what part of toy story he's telling me about in first person as buzz. he will seriously stay in character the entire day.
sometimes, i'll say "that wasn't flying; that was falling. with style."
and he'll say "that actually was flying."
it's what sweet boy says when he wakes up in the morning. sometimes the very first thing he says. same thing with naps.
it's occasionally what he says when i tell him that he isn't supposed to be doing something.
as in, "hey joseph, it's too early to play the piano."
"i'm buzz lightyear."
"hey buzz, it's too early to play the piano."
also, the rest of buzz's family has been assigned our respective characters. jeremy is mr. potato head. jude is rex the dinosaur. i'm woody. (i'm kind of glad i'm not jessie)
sometimes, joseph will tell a story, and i'll have to decipher what part of toy story he's telling me about in first person as buzz. he will seriously stay in character the entire day.
sometimes, i'll say "that wasn't flying; that was falling. with style."
and he'll say "that actually was flying."
i love buzz lightyear. :)
5.02.2012
these days
such a good needed wonderful i can breathe day. i feel like i'm literally (lit'rally) breathing more deeply after this day. it wasn't anything revolutionary, just staying home. because we've been going. a lot. and we've been tired. our weeks have been full -- full of good things really -- but we've been tired.
yesterday, we spent the whole post-nap until dinner time playing basketball in the front yard and with the sand and water table in the backyard. today, we played in the pool and sat on a blanket with our friends next door and another dear friend who lives (for now) just down the street, friends i cannot believe God put this close to us -- just like that -- here you go, heart-friends. oh, and boys the same age as yours. next door! down the street!
i'm thankful. because days at home don't necessarily or even usually feel this refreshing, but the Lord decided to bless us with it. ditto with the friends.
from the past couple of weeks:
muffin date with this handsome
our new (craiglist find!) backyard favorite
sigh.
oh, jude.
the (joseph dramatic voice) rhinocerooooos!
the babes. big babes, really.
p.s. if you don't watch parks and rec, please do. we just finished our netflix cue until another season is released. jeremy's response to this (horrible & shocking) news: "well, did they have another suggestion? for sustaining a marriage?" :)
4.19.2012
life lately [in pictures]
[joseph swoon]
[what my son did while an easter egg hunt was happening]
[one..two..THREEEEEEE]
[jude swoon]
[i do]
[mrs. gabel and future mrs. gabel]
[even their baby pictures were blue and red. good job coordinating with the shower, history]
[jude swoon 2 -- he's very swoonworthy. i've never even used that word prior to this photo]
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