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Brian sang rock-a-bye-baby to Amber in the voice of the Swedish Chef as he swung her around, and she gig­gled up­roar­i­ously.

Brian brought Penny to sit on our bed, and she just started laugh­ing with de­light and shak­ing from side to side in her hap­pi­ness at see­ing us.

Brian beat me by one point in Terraforming Mars, but then as we were putting the game away we dis­cov­ered a card that gave me an ex­tra two points which I’d for­got­ten to count.

Brian play­ing with the girls on the mat­tress–let­ting them walk up his legs, body slam­ming, crawl­ing un­der each other.

Eating lunch at Michael and Esther’s house af­ter play­ing at the park, and Brian just looked so manly and gor­geous.

It was 8:30 at night, and Brian and I had­n’t eaten. I had wanted to make burg­ers, but it just kept get­ting later and later as we tried to get the kids into bed at a de­cent hour. Finally they were down, but since it was so late I con­sid­ered just scroung­ing. Brian, self-sac­ri­fic­ing that he is, said that would be fine with him. I felt dis­sat­is­fied with how the night was turn­ing out, and af­ter a minute of in­ter­nal de­bate de­clared I was go­ing to make the burg­ers any­way. He looked so pleased, I knew I’d made the right de­ci­sion.

Shen Yun per­for­mance with Brian

Playing with Lydia and Amber on Saturday morn­ing, car­ry­ing them in our arms and treat­ing them like ba­bies. They loved it, and were so sweet, cute, and gig­gly.

Eating lunch with the fam­ily at the table. Everyone was happy and con­tent, eat­ing well with­out com­plain­ing, and we read Little House. It’s the most peace­ful and con­tent I’ve felt in a long time.

Melissa: If every­one in the con­gre­ga­tion is in the choir, who will they sing to?

Brian: God. Boom! Mic dropped.

Podcasting with Brian for the first time since Penny was born