Centripetal Force

It was a big science activity day today--one kid blew up balloons to match the planets of the solar system in scale and the other experimented with centripetal force, whirling washers around on string. I wish I could say we had a great time and learned a lot, but the sad truth is that we would all just as soon not be bothered by these activities (though I think we may have learned something in spite of ourselves).

My Pastor

I took this with my camera phone as my pastor was preparing for our Sunday evening service. I am so grateful to God for this servant of His, who faithfully keeps watch over my soul--may I live in such a way that he can do this with joy and not groaning (Hebrews 13:17)!

Spring Ring

I spent the day at the Connecticut Spring Ring, a gathering of a number of handbell choirs from around the state. Here is our director rehearsing for the massed ring that concluded the event.

Gamers

They're shooting each other--or maybe a common enemy?--in a computer game. In the foreground is my third good-looking child.

Shoreline

I have clearly obligated myself to post a picture of my third good-looking child, but that will have to wait. I spent the afternoon with a friend, ferrying her to her back surgeon's office and then, fortified at Starbuck's, exploring the Connecticut shoreline together. This picture is a view from the shore in Stony Creek, looking at one of the inhabited Thimble Islands. It would be interesting, I think, to live in a house on a rock in Long Island Sound, relying on water taxi for transportation to the mainland.

Aimee

Another nice-looking kid.

Ben

Am I the only mother who looks at her kids and thinks, Where did that good-looking person come from?! Whatever. This is my good-looking son.