Yes, it has been a while. So kind of you to notice.
Tonight I sit here, waiting for my husband to come home from setting up the baptistry at church for the baptisms that will be taking place on Sunday, and wondering how the heck we're going to get in all of the hours we were supposed to spend alone together this week. We've been busy. We've been working. We're trying to take charge, at least a little bit, of the new thing that has become our life together. There has been a lot of transitioning over the past eight to nine months. I have yet to understand my place in it all. We've been praying; we've been asking God about it. I can only speak for myself, but I've been instructed again and again to wait, and that's exactly what I have been doing.
Backing up a bit, I'll provide the context for this one-sided conversation I'm trying to have with you tonight. Approximately nine months ago my husband, Michael, went into business for himself. We are Fox Enterprises Limited and we, in the person of Michael Fox, are available to help you with many of your web-based needs. Someday I'll get him to compose a comprehensive list of all the services he provides so that when questioned I'll be able to fool myself into having confidence in the answer I give. These days if you ask me what my brother does for a living I'll say "I don't know exactly." Ask me what my father-in-law does, I'll give the same answer. Ask me what my sister's future plans are, I'll say "I'm not really sure." Is it any wonder I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing either?
Basically Michael and I are on our own and responsible for creating our own momentum. It's been an interesting adjustment. He now works out of our basement most of the day, which means we get some helpful tax deductions come April 15th, and he's available to take the children for me at a moments notice, a privilege I try not to claim too terribly often. It means long hours, but it also means more games with the potential to find a niche because his creativity is free to flow. My husband is also a game designer. Designing games is his passion. He's begun developing two new games in just these past couple of weeks, two games which we've been able to work on play testing together. It is a scary time, because it is in interesting time, but it is a very hopeful time as well. We just have to wait and work and pray. And I have to somehow learn the discipline that will allow me to write and post regularly to this blog, "A Constructive Eclecticism."
In the meantime, Michael has come home from church, and doesn't have to go back on Saturday morning as he had previously planned, significantly increasing the possibility that we will in fact have time alone together during the remainder of the week.
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