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Anyone who knows me can attest that I am NOT a technophile. So perhaps you can guess why I find this image deeply disturbing (in a shake my head, ah-what-a-world kind of way):
Yes, that is Nicholas, age two, swiping through pictures on Christian’s phone.
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Not impressed? How about this?
(If it’s tough for a 2-year-old’s chubby hands, it’s excruciating to watch Julianna try to make her hands do what she wants them to. But good fine-motor practice, I suppose.)
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But despite my status as a curmudgeonly Luddite, today I can, at long last, do something I’ve wanted to do for several years: namely, give you a sound byte of our church choir. For this privilege, we must credit Christian’s iPhone and a child who IS a technophile (or anyway, soon will be): Namely Alex, whose voice you will hear urging Nicholas to dance, while the choir sings Bernadette Farrell’s “O God You Search Me” in the background. And if you listen to/ “watch” the whole thing, you’ll even get a split second view of the choir. 😉 But be warned…this is a 6 year old at the helm…brace for motion sickness.
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I was working on a column this week, and in doing some web searching, I stumbled across the hymn “There’s A Wideness In God’s Mercy.” I’ve been singing this hymn my whole life, but I had no idea the text was longer than what goes in the hymnal. There are some really good lines in there. Check it out.
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You know what I love about my little girl, whose favorite foods are pasta and ice cream, my little food-scavenger girl? When she decides she’s done with her meal, she slides down from her chair and stealthily wanders around the table to see what others have left on their plates. Last night, she left her chocolate cake three-quarters eaten and went after…wait for it…Nicholas’s BROCCOLI.
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Is anyone else kerflummoxed by the fact that we’re all but halfway through 2011? Every year I have trouble adjusting to the date, and this year it’s half over already!
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I don’t usually go running on trash day, but this morning I did, and it raised a question for me: Do you put out more recycling or trash? I really don’t understand how people who have fewer people in the household can be making three and four times as much trash as we do. Even if you count the recycling, they’re putting out more than we are. We put out one bag of trash a week, and it’s not even full. Survey: how much trash/recycling does your household put out in a week?
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Kathleen M. Basi 
When all are home we are a family of 7 and our garbage bin always fully closes. I see so many houses that I know have no more than 4 with their cans OVERFLOWING. Of course some of these same houses either do no recycling or there is next to nothing in that bin 😦
Love #5, our autistic princess is the same way. Sometimes she will take an entire plate one of her brother’s is eating off of from across the table (we do try to discourage Miss Shelby from doing that, but it happens, sometimes they boys are thrilled, other times, not so much!). I don’t know if you read Al Bore, uh Gore’s new global warming initiative to have fewer children…utterly disgusting. We also seem to have less trash and recycling in our family of 5 than childless couples on our street for sure. Not sure how. So I put that evidence, your evidence and Simcha Fisher’s post that large families are the new green as a counter argument to Mr. Gore. In fact, I’ve been putting a link to Simcha’s article underneath every posting I’ve seen of Gore’s article on facebook. The amazing thing….Dems and Reps alike, small and large families alike are agreeing with me for the most part 🙂 Blessings on your family and pregnancy this week!
Take 5 cracked me up.
Also, how wasteful we’ve come as a society has really saddened me.
Our family of five, with one in disposable diapers, usually put out about two bags of trash per week, one blue bag of recycling and moderate to large amounts of cardboard/paper. ‘Till recently I have focused most on cardboard-type items (we don’t get the newspaper), but have realized there is still a lot of paper going into our trash. So, I’m working on recycling that as well. Does anyone know if food cans with the white lining can be recycled? Veg-All comes in cans like that and my mother said she’d heard once that they can’t be recycled.
We are about equal with a full can of trash or recycling (+ the occasional box or two).
Cute pictures!
We put out the recycling bin every two weeks and about two bags of trash every week. Before we had 5 litter-box-using pets, we would have less than a bagful of trash a week, but it is kind of hard to avoid throwing out used kitty- and bunny-litter.
Our family of 3 doesn’t fill the trash can each week but we do fill the recycler, mostly because we recycle EVERYTHING in California. We also do pretty well on filling the yard waste container.
Loving the comments. Apparently trash annoys others, too. 🙂
Jenny, I always put those cans in the recycling. I could be wrong, but we’ve always done it.
Paper is HUGE. Especially with kids bringing home stuff from school all the time. Yikes!
We always have more recycling than trash! Nowadays we average 1 bag, and that includes that we have diapers to put out. If it werent for diapers, there would be weeks when only the recycling bin gets put on the curb.
We can’t get that good, even using cloth diapers–the trash is NEVER full, but it ALWAYS has something smelly in it. Meat packages that have gone nasty, etc.
Love the choir snippet?? Need a soprano?? (virtually?) you guys sound beautiful!
We produce (?) about 2 bags of trash a week. No… Probably 3. Includes recycling. Interesting question.