I realize that the last post was a little cryptic – it was the best I could do at 5:30am with three hours sleep – so this one I hope is a little straight forward. My baby boy, Payton Owen Benjamin Kramer, arrived to life with the rest of us humans on Friday, November 23, 2007 [...]
November 29, 2007
Categories: faith, kids, life . Tags: baby, family, going home, health, hospital, Payton . Author: benyamen . Comments: 4 Comments
The time has come
to say he’s here
to help my wife
to do my share
(da, da, duh)
How do I sleep while my world is turning
How do I stop while my ears are burning
Okay so I just dated myself really badly, but I’m in a hurry. Jenn’s water just broke so I’m on my way to MJ. Pray [...]
November 23, 2007
Categories: kids, life . . Author: benyamen . Comments: 1 Comment
Well after about four days apart, I finally got to go visit my wife for about 24 hours. And before your mind goes on all kinds of rabit trails, no it’s not because either of us are incarcirated, it’s because she is living with my parents in Regina now until the baby comes as I [...]
November 19, 2007
Categories: life . Tags: college days, friends, life change, monty python, nostalgic, preaching, responsibilities, sentimental, SWONE, tired . Author: benyamen . Comments: 2 Comments
I found this interesting little exercise in the comments of Knotter’s blog and thought I would give it a go. As all of you who know me at all know, I am a hopeless music addict. Between Jenn and I we have over 500 some albums. Right now there are 327 albums listed in my [...]
November 17, 2007
Categories: Random, life, music . Tags: life, list, music, soundtrack . Author: benyamen . Comments: Leave a Comment
Well, that’s all folks. That’s it. It’s done. It’s the end of an era in my life. For those of you who are thinking that this is a baby announcement, you are sorely mistaken, but it will be coming soon enough. No, tonight marks the end of a slightly different, but related, era. Tonight was [...]
November 14, 2007
Categories: kids, life . Tags: kids, marriage, nostalgia . Author: benyamen . Comments: 1 Comment
I’ll level with you right off the top, I don’t know where this is going. Usually I’m sleepy by this time – around 12:30am – but tonight I’m not, so I’m wiriting in the hopes of getting closer to sleep. I spent a little time parousing through and reading all the blogs on my list, [...]
November 9, 2007
Categories: Random, life . Tags: answers, blogs, friends, insomnia, jobs, ministry, salary . Author: benyamen . Comments: 5 Comments
Well, it’s been four long years in waiting, but it’s finally provincial election time again! I realize that I’m a bit of a political junky, but I do think that elections – whether provincial, federal or even American – are a ton of fun to watch, right from the commercials, to the debates, and the [...]
November 5, 2007
Categories: life, politics . Tags: Election, Pool, Saskatchewan . Author: benyamen . Comments: Leave a Comment
Well, with the short layoff I had, why not indulge in some double-dipping goodness? Two posts for the price of one! Well, here we go.
This may seem like kind of a rabit trail, but I think it’s an important one to begin with before I move on. I am not unbiased. No one is unbiased. [...]
November 2, 2007
Categories: church, faith, life . Tags: church growth, ministry, UFC, wrestling, young adults, youth . Author: benyamen . Comments: 4 Comments
Well, it’s been too long. My relationship with my cathartic little outlet here has been sketchy at best over the past week, but I think a lot of that can be attributed to both the fact that I have been away from home more in the past week than at home, and that I have [...]
November 1, 2007
Categories: Random . Tags: busy, overwhelmed, thoughts, travelling . Author: benyamen . Comments: 1 Comment