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In late 2004ish (your memory goes when you get old you know) Hannah began a mysterious fever that lasted several weeks. It was mysterious because no doctor could figure out what was causing it. I was pretty well occupied trying to work full time and still facilitate several ministries at church as well as raise three little boys and finish remodeling a house that had nearly been eaten apart from the inside with pigeon poop (my life’s not weird enough you say? How about a house where the previous owners drained their sewer into the basement, and had a trash heap in the backyard with 5, yes 5, water heaters in it?). No, Hannah’s fever and illness had nothing to do with the pigeon poo, it was cleaned far before we moved in.

I hate infomercials

Last night I sat down with all three boys and played Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 for a little over an hour on PS3. This was the first time the twins have been allowed to play with the PS3 at all since it was purchased, although Caleb gets some screen time coaching my B–spec driver in GT5 when I’m too lazy to be giving all the commands. It was a challenge for me. Most everything in our house is community property, but there are a few things that are off limits to everyone under the age of 18; guitars, keyboard, PS3, my cell phone, power tools, kitchen appliances, machetes, laptops, and everything else dangerous or fragile.

Happy Birthday to me.

29 years ago today I was born. 13 years ago today I got my driver’s license and had to borrow my granddad’s pickup for the driver’s license celebratory drive since my parents wouldn’t let me borrow one of their vehicles. 9 years ago today I had moved across the country and was less than a month away from marrying a girl I had known only 7 months. 3 years ago today I preached my first funeral. 1 year ago today I missed my dinner plans with friends in order to spend the day breaking a borrowed ATV trying to fix fence posts that had burned while helping my parents' new business get off the ground. Today I get to start leading worship for a local youth group during their Wednesday night services.

Did I mention I didn't go to college?

In late 2003 the youth pastor at Hannah’s home church resigned. I was already a part of the student ministry and was searching for a ministry of my own, but after some prayer I met with the pastor to tell him that if they would have me, I would be happy to serve as the interim until they found a permanent staff member. I also told him that the day they hired someone else, I was sending out resumes again. In late 2004 they hired a new youth pastor and the next day I started sending out resumes again.

Not really about RSV...

I spent this weekend trying to pry some details out of Hannah for our experience with RSV the first winter that we had the twins but she kept avoiding me. She finally told me this evening that it is because she never really tells the story since we caught it so early that there was no need for breathing treatments or hospital visits or anything reasonably dramatic. I suppose when things are so absurd for so long a little thing like a life threatening illness can seem like a pretty small ordeal. Short version: preemies are very susceptible to RSV and we knew it was likely that Andrew and Joel would contract it. Hannah had spoken with the doctor and was informed that if the symptoms of a normal cold lasted for more than 13 days it was RSV. On day 14 she called the doctor and he saw the boys, prescribed some medication and that was the extent of our experience with it.