Introduction

Welcome to “Nothing New.” The goal of my blog in the past has been to stimulate discussion about all things related to CBC, the Christian life, and the world at large. But it has recently been hijacked by my cancer and treatment. This means I have to eat some crow (which I hate) because early on I boldly claimed I would not allow my condition to take center stage in my life.

But it is taking center stage on my blog – for a while. I am rather torn about this development. I am uncomfortable making this all about me – because it’s not. It is strangely therapeutic for me to blog about this, however, and I cannot express even a fraction of my appreciation for everyone who reads and leaves their funny, weird, and /or encouraging words in comments and emails.

So please join with me in dialogue. I always look forward to reading your comments. (If you'd like to follow my cancer journey from day 1, please go to my post on 6/25/08 - Life Takes Guts - in the archives and follow the posts upwards from there.)

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Spring Broke

I haven’t posted as often this week – I suppose I am coasting into Spring Break. Some of my students will be doing big and great things like spending a week skiing with friends or serving on mission trips. Me? Here’s what my break will look like:


I’ll spend my mornings watching SpongeBob SquarePants and my afternoons riding bicycles.

I’ll be spending some sleepless nights in a half-panic as the reality of having another baby finally starts to set in.

I will have to take out a second mortgage to stock up on diapers, buy bunk beds, and find batteries for all the baby toys that will make crazy, repetitive, annoying noises.

I’ll be shedding tears of joy as the furniture folks deliver and assemble the bunk beds for me. Since it took me four weeks to assemble a Big Wheel, I’m afraid the boys wouldn’t be able to use the beds until they were ready for college if it were up to me.

I will have to keep two boys from killing each other, breaking stuff, and making their mother crazy while they are out of school, too.

I’ll watch my fair share of March Madness until my wife reminds me (three or four times) how desperately our yard needs work. Then I’ll get off my duff and start to work outside, discover I don’t have the right tool for something, hurt myself or break something, then come back inside feeling like a failure. I’ll turn basketball back on to make myself feel better.

I’ll try to read something that isn’t related to any of my classes.

If I do write about anything, it won’t be about sex because my friends have informed me that my blog has become a little “topic heavy.”

Enjoy the break.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I plan on going to bed on Friday night and I won't wake up until at least Tuesday.

-Zeb

Anonymous said...

Sounds a little like "whining"

Craig Smith said...

And so the SPAM begins. Thanks Barb.