Not a Hint of Hyperbole

Life, Right Now

Most of life is neither good nor bad right now, exactly. The worst I can say for most of it is that it's low-level-stressful! We're still really happy to be here, grateful for our congregation, glad to be nearer to family, happy to have a house we can use to bless others.

family

We’re In!

It's strange: though we have been in Colorado for three full months already – and they have been full indeed – there is a real sense in which we are just starting this new phase of life now.

Colorado

A Few Life Updates

Since we moved to Colorado, a few pretty major things have happened. Our house date got bumped. My dad has a brain tumor. And we joined a church!

family

The Adjustment

Hello! By the time you read this, we will have been in our new (temporary) home in Colorado Springs for about five days. Five days to process a new normal. Five days to

Homeschool

Homeschool Happenings

I figure I owe y'all a photo dump of what we've been doing in homeschool lately. Elayne is greatly enjoying math (Saxon), science, and writing (D'Nealian), and improving every day in her reading

family

Daddy-Daughter Discipleship Time

For the past four years, I've been frequenting a local coffee shop every Friday, because they provide free shots of single origin espresso on Fridays for anyone who asks for one. It's part

children

A Kate-ism

This morning, as we were all going back and forth being silly (as we so often do), Kate declared to me: Daddy, you're the icing on the monster cupcake! (We have Cookie Monster

Homeschool

A Science Experiment!

Some people like to name their home schools. I would like to name mine, "My-Kind-Of Homeschool." Because so far, teaching kindergarten, at least (I'm SURE it gets a lot harder and

tattoos

Indelible Marks

Lately, I've been thinking about my 30th birthday. It's never too early to start thinking about your 30th birthday (#snark), and I'm only 2 years away from mine. I recently read a magazine

how I feel about

Humidity

One of the apparently-small but huge for me things I'm looking forward to in our new home—into which we'll move sometime in early 2018—is lower humidity. Yes, you heard me: lower

marriage

Wives, Fight for Your Husbands - Or, a Response to the Edges Collective Article

I am righteously angry. I'll tell you why in a minute. But first, some epic awesome: One of my favorite moments in all of literature is from The Return of the King, when

humor

How I Feel About...Pencil Skirts.

Srsly tho. You'd think after two babies I'd have hips...

rest

A Regular Work Week?

Over the past decade, I have spent most of my time at something roughly approximating a breakneck pace. First it was teaching myself web development, then it was doing web development consulting on

humor

"Wanna Get Away?" - Or, The Time I Spilled Water on Brandon Sanderson

My heart can't take any more serious posts right now. In the spirit of laughter being good medicine, let me regale you with a tale of one of my most embarassing moments. Those

poetry

That Moment I Dropped Them Off

My stomach is doing somersaults inside me, telling me that I just climbed off a loop-the-loop that ended in a 100-foot drop to boot. Am I facing a drastic life-change, a watershed, something

reading

On Decompression

I've been thinking about reading plans and book lists. And about rest. Plans and lists may not sound like rest to you; that's fine: they don't to me, either. I've been eager to

SALUTATIONS, EARTHLING

Hyperbole: exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. There's a problem with this. Most of the Krycho Kouple's outward-facing persona is conducted online, and online, people are about as literal