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
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