Reader Problem Solved

Sorry about the boring logistics, but some of you have had trouble subscribing to me in your Google Reader account. My computer genius husband fixed the code, and it works now. So go on over and subscribe. If you don't have a reader account and you read more than two blogs, you simply must get one! It saves so much time (or allows you to waste even more time subscribing to lots of blogs). Besides, how else will you know the minute I put up a new post!

My New Look

It's probably too early in this blog's life to go for a new look, but we can just call the early version the beta version. Didn't my husband do a nice job? Be sure to scroll to the bottom to get the most important part of the meal! It's still under construction, but at least I have something a bit more interesting than the template for you to look at. Still looking for a good quote or tagline...

The Mischievously Philosophic and the Serenely Wild

Thanks to Em the Luddite for the perfect suggestions for code names for my kids. Calvin and Hobbes it is! Calvin, "the mischievously philosophic," for my three-year-old, and Hobbes, "the serenely wild," for my 18-month-old. The descriptions couldn't fit more perfectly.

Now for that tag line...

My Children and a Blog Tagline

I’m sorry I am posting so much up front, but I need some help with these blog logistics. Since I am keeping things anonymous, I am not planning to use my children’s names. My husband thought Thing One and Thing Two would be perfectly fine code names for the boys, but I can just see the therapy sessions in their futures! So if any of you who know my boys have suggestions for good blog names for them, let me know. Until then, I guess Thing One and Thing Two will have to do.

I need help in one more area. My dear husband in creating a beautiful blog design for me, and I need some sort of subtitle/tag line for my header. Come on, my creative friends out there!

We're not the Incredibles, but...

...I am keeping this blog anonymous. For those of you who know me, the reason is pretty obvious. (If you don't know me, you can make up your own mysterious reason.) If you choose to visit and to comment, please be sure not to use proper names of people or places and try to avoid any obvious biographical information that could help readers discover my secret identity. I hope that this anonymity will free me up to talk about subjects that I may otherwise have to avoid. Thanks in advance for helping to keep this less-than-Superwoman's secret identity safe.

I Took the Plunge

Yep. I have finally decided to keep a blog. The paper journal, old-fashioned letter writing, bibliophile me is rebelling, but I am doing it. Why not? I read blogs all the time, my husband has one, I often find myself stopping in the middle of a moment and saying "that would make a great blog post," and I've even had friends encourage me to start one.

So why have I been so resistant? I could say it is because I don't want to be tempted to portray myself as better than I am. I could say it is because I think there are more valuable ways to spend my time. But those of you who know me know the real reason. As I told my husband, "Everyone is doing it, and that's enough to make me not want to do it."

His answer? "Everyone eats three meals a day, too."

Thus the name of my blog. This is my little attempt at three square meals. The problem is, of course, that I am an imperfect human being, struggling through this life and trying to live up to ideals that I never quite reach. "Two Square Meals" is an attempt to keep myself honest, a chance to process my life, failures and all, as I seek to be a better wife, mother, thinker, doer, and lover of the One who will one day make me perfect.

I love to read and have benefited from the blogs of so many moms who seem to have a handle on things much more than I do. I want to be them, but I am not. I do not bake my own bread (yet), my kids get to watch TV, I sometimes yell, I often don't appreciate my husband, I interrupt, and I don't always floss. But I am confident of this (to paraphrase good old Paul), that he who began a good work in me will bring it to completion at the day of Christ Jesus.