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Life, Right Now
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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.

  • Chris Krycho
    Chris Krycho
3 min read
We’re In!
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.

  • Chris Krycho
    Chris Krycho
2 min read
A Few Life Updates
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!

  • Chris Krycho
    Chris Krycho
3 min read
The Adjustment
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

  • Jaimie Krycho
    Jaimie Krycho
2 min read
Homeschool Happenings
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

  • Jaimie Krycho
    Jaimie Krycho
2 min read
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

  • Chris Krycho
    Chris Krycho
3 min read
A Kate-ism
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

  • Chris Krycho
    Chris Krycho
1 min read
A Science Experiment!
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

  • Jaimie Krycho
    Jaimie Krycho
2 min read
Indelible Marks
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

  • Jaimie Krycho
    Jaimie Krycho
2 min read
Humidity
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

  • Chris Krycho
    Chris Krycho
2 min read
Wives, Fight for Your Husbands - Or, a Response to the Edges Collective Article
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

  • Jaimie Krycho
    Jaimie Krycho
4 min read
How I Feel About...Pencil Skirts.
humor

How I Feel About...Pencil Skirts.

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

  • Jaimie Krycho
    Jaimie Krycho
1 min read
A Regular Work Week?
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

  • Chris Krycho
    Chris Krycho
2 min read
"Wanna Get Away?" - Or, The Time I Spilled Water on Brandon Sanderson
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

  • Jaimie Krycho
    Jaimie Krycho
3 min read
That Moment I Dropped Them Off
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

  • Jaimie Krycho
    Jaimie Krycho
1 min read
On Decompression
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

  • Chris Krycho
    Chris Krycho
3 min read
SALUTATIONS, EARTHLING

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

  • Jaimie Krycho
    Jaimie Krycho
1 min read
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