In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,
In the bleak midwinter, long ago.
Our God, Heaven cannot hold Him, nor earth sustain;
Heaven and earth shall flee away when He comes to reign.
In the bleak midwinter a stable place sufficed
The Lord God Almighty, Jesus Christ.
Enough for Him, whom cherubim, worship night and day,
Breastful of milk, and a mangerful of hay;
Enough for Him, whom angels fall before,
The ox and ass and camel which adore.
Angels and archangels may have gathered there,
Cherubim and seraphim thronged the air;
But His mother only, in her maiden bliss,
Worshipped the beloved with a kiss.
What can I give Him, poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd, I would bring a lamb;
If I were a Wise Man, I would do my part;
Yet what I can I give Him: give my heart.
As of August 2010, posts about my kids are appearing at a new hidden blog for their privacy. If you would like to continue to be part of the inner workings of parenting these kids, you'll need to send an email to me a sznnchndlr at gmail dot com and I'll draw a map for you. It would be nice -- if you do follow me to the new blog -- that you promise to post lots of supportive comments.
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Here I chatter about books, parenting, election 2008, recipes, teaching college writing, and the adventures of getting settled in with our two freshly (Fall 06) adopted school-age children from Russia. This blog is chapter two; chapter one is posted at Jamie & Suzanne go to Russia.
I live in the City of Subdued Excitement, Cascadia, Land of the Free.
I am the wife of a man I call My Gift from a Generous God. I am mama to two lovely children, Dandy and Chickadee that became ours in September 2006 in a court-room in Siberia. I am the daughter of two people
whom I love and admire. One of them, my dad, is a new (Dec 06) paraplegic.
In my previous life (B.C. - before children), I was a college English teacher, specializing in composition and ESL composition.
This blog started life as hackosphere's neo and has been
heavily tweaked and widgetized by Suzanne :: I got all the coding for the
peek-a-boo posts over at hackosphere :: All my pretty little icons came from famfamfam :: The coding for
the rotating banners came from Vince Liu :: The very cool tabbed sidebar widgets are thanks to the very
cool hoctro :: The fun "Feeling Lucky?" toy -- which is currently disabled -- came
from phydeaux3 (fido 3?) :: The pretty label cloud also came from phydeaux3 :: The elegant and easy to install related posts widget
came from Jackbook :: I got all the
social bookmarking icons nicely packaged for me at the aptly named Social Bookmarking
Script Generator :: The 3 column footer came from Technodia :: The pretty sliding photo galleries are from CSSplay :: The recent
comments widget is from Hackosphere::
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