Not a Hint of Hyperbole

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Somehow 2020 is Almost Over

The Krycho family has gotten through this year, though, and in better shape than we might have given 2020. COVID, taekwondo, music and more!

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School-age Kids, Silmarils, and Everything In-Between

Me? Tongue-in-cheek? Never.

travel

Long time, no post!

At looooong last… an update!

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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.

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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!

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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 reconcile our bodies to the two-hour time change. Five days to mourn the loss of an ending

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 skills. Our schedule is chugging along nicely, though that will change when we drive out of Wake

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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 of their goal to help people come to appreciate good coffee. It's a huge part of why

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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 cupcakes from a birthday party the girls went to.) My brain melts from the cuteness sometimes. Header

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 I do not diminish that in the least!), has been pretty easy. It took a few days

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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 blurb in which a 90-year-old woman got a long-desired tattoo of a flower on her birthday, and

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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 humidity. This is a thing that has wearied me for 12 years now: from the moment I

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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 Éowyn rides forth to fight the Witch King of Angmar. He has mortally wounded her uncle, and

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How I Feel About...Pencil Skirts.

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

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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 the side to help pay for seminary, then it was seminary itself. All along the way, I

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"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 of you who know me know that I am a writer and, therefore, a reader. One of

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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 that will alter me for the rest of time? No. I dropped my daughters off at day

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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 move back into the kinds of reading I'm actively interested in doing now that I'm done with

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 as my linguistically-budding toddler. For example, I say: "The undertone on this batch of coffee is