Tag: vacation

  • God loves me when I be

  • Back From the Brink

    I just turned on my computer for the first time in 7 days.  It still feels a bit funky. My fingers are stretching to familiar places but typing feels totally odd. Yesterday, I woke up to cuddle a freezing Jackson back to sleep. Today, he woke up in his crib to a warm bowl of…

  • A breath mark

    A breath mark or luftpause or, for bowed instruments, a bow lift (also retake), is a symbol used in musical notation. It directs the performer of the music passage to take a breath (for wind instruments and vocalists) or to make a slight pause (for non-wind instruments). For bowed instruments, it means to lift the bow. This pause is normally intended to affect the duration of the preceding note and not…

  • Mini-Vacation

    I’m fried. The past 4 months were exhilarating and exhausting at the same time. Here’s a summary of the stuff I’ve been up to. We changed churches I helped launched 2 businesses, mountains of paperwork and 27 trips to the bank, and hundreds of hours of “other crap.” I wrapped up 3+ years of time…

  • Staycation Success

    We did it! It feels good just to say it. “We had a successful vacation.” Last night, Kristen and I went for a walk in our neighborhood and this was really the summary statement of our week in Carlsbad. It was nice to get away while only traveling about 40 minutes from our house. I…

  • Vacation Reading

    Yesterday officially kicked off my summer vacation. For the first time since I was 24 I’ll only have two weeks of vacation this year, one of which I’ll use for my July trip to Haiti, so I have to make the most of this one. My intention is to disconnect as much as possible. (More…

  • 3 Upcoming Things I’m Excited About

    I’ve got 3 big things on the horizon which are capturing a ton of my attention. Both the details and the scope of them are great! In just a few weeks I’m embarking on a road trip up I-5, through California, Oregon, and Seattle. The goal is simple, connect with a bunch of West Coast…

  • Philly Pictures

  • NYC Pictures | Day One

  • In NJ/NYC

    The McLane family is on vacation. We left on Thursday and flew from San Diego to Washington D.C. Over the weekend I worked at DCLA while Kristen and the kids explored the city. The went to some museums, saw some sites, toured some buildings, and basically just had a series of long days. If you’ve…