one element of a good evening

was finding that Ray Ortlund had posted this video. Love Ashley Cleveland.

This about sums it up at our house

except that the middle of our three children seems to be a morning person. So while the rest of us are stumbling around making mono-syllabic noises, she is Oh-So-Happy! that the rest of us are finally up . . . there are mornings that doesn't work out so well.

Hymn of St. Patrick

The worship leader of our chapel program in college wrote this arrangement of St. Patrick's Breastplate. I like it best of any of them I've heard.

link to audio only:

http://www.calvin.edu/worship/pub/ten_plans/stpatricks_prayer.mp3

Seven

So our four year old has a thing for They Might Be Giants. Best of all, she loves their song "Seven," (I think because she gets to go around shouting "Where's our cake? We want cake!" with impunity for days afterwards.) It was with great delight that she realized that the seven song was originally podcast on . . . March 7th. Her birthday. Apparently that's her birthday cake that all the sevens are devouring.