ascribe /vt./ to credit or assign, as to a cause or source. to attribute or think of as belonging, as a quality or characteristic. accredit. credit. impute. hang on. pin on.
ascribe /vt./ 1. The appearance of this post can only be ascribed to Rachel, who when I told her I was going to put the word-of-the-week on hold for the rest of the year, gasped out loud in horror. Bless you, Rara. This one is for you.
ascribe /vt./ 2. The word "ascribed" has been pounding through my head, ever since we sang this line at church last week (and a little): "To Him ascribed be, Honor and majesty, Thru all eternity, Worthy the Lamb!" (I especially like the exclamation point, don't you?) I like the way ascribe sounds, especially in the past tense, when you say it in three syllables...a.scrib.ed. If my life were a musical, that's how I would say it all the time.
ascribe /vt./ 3. My absence from all things blog can be ascribed mostly to the pace of my life and the length of my list these days. To be honest, there is no actual list, just a wheel in my head that turns around and around saying, "What about this..." "Don't forget this..." "You better start on..." (This wheel sounds suspiciously like RIM, while CIM just thinks its a good idea to take Tuesday afternoon off and play Monopoly with my boys. Ethan creamed us by the way. He kept saying "Nope, that's too expensive," and only bought Mediterranean and Baltic Avenues, while I bought everything I landed on. I ended up going bankrupt and selling most everything to him in the end. It was a little too frighteningly close to my actual life.)
ascribe /vt./ 4. It seems like most of the week was taken up by the election. The first part spent in nervous anticipation and after Tuesday, taken up with a bit of consolation pie and what can only be described as quiet, resigned acceptance. But by Thursday, we had all recovered for the most part and life went on. I can only ascribe this to the magic of pie.
ascribe /vt./ 5. On Wednesday afternoon I took Savannah to get a haircut (which was badly needed and long overdue, and finally accomplishing it can only be ascribed to her constant prodding.) It turned out darling and she said, "When you put this on your blog, you need to put an exclamation point by the 'after.'" Indeed. When David saw it he said, "I'm not sure if it makes her look older or younger." As for me, I feel like I got my little girl back.
ascribe /vt./ 6. We had a big aerospace work party on Friday afternoon and evening. The other boys in Caleb's group rode the bus home with Caleb and we worked until eight o' clock, when one of the boys said, "I'm really tired." And they were. Exhausted. The most exciting part of the night happened when I hooked up about 9 volts too much power to our little motor and blew up two batteries. After we got over the little scare this mini-explosion caused, the boys all said that was about the coolest thing ever. All the progress we made this week can only be ascribed to the brilliance of my mother (who I called for consultation on physical layout...she's a genius with graph paper) and my cousin, Daniel (who I called in for help on the motor dilemma), and the guy at home depot who flirted with me shamelessly when I consulted him about belts and tubing and free plywood. And in the meantime, my quilt room has been turned into ground zero for the project. For the record, I am much better with fabric than I am with copper wire.
ascribe /vt./ 7. On Saturday, my cousin, Daniel, and his family came from Tucson for a short visit. They brought their bikes and we took our first bike ride of the season. It was glorious.
The weather was beautiful and we rode about 4 miles with a stop in the middle at the frozen yogurt shop. The kids played and we had dinner and dessert before they headed for home, but not before my girls tried to talk them all into spending the night. It was delightful to see them all again. David was one of Daniel's roommates at BYU, and I still ascribe all the happiness of my life to that (not so) "random" housing assignment.
ascribe /vt./ 8. I taught the lesson in gospel doctrine on Sunday and finally felt good about it. Of course there were a few small moments where CIM started talking, but I was able to course correct pretty quickly and recover. I can only ascribe this success to the advice I got from my dad and my brother, Matt, a few weeks ago. (More on this in my 52 blessing post.)
ascribe /vt./ 9. David is over the oncology program at his hospital, and they hosted their first annual Mustang Car Show/Prostate Cancer Screening Event on Saturday morning at the hospital. When David told me about this, I just grinned. I know you're all sorry you missed it. And while Caleb and I did not need our prostates screened we went with David to check out the car show and show our support. There is no end (no pun intended) to the variety of projects David's job entails. But the success of this event has to be completely ascribed to Patricia DeBruhl, who is just about the best hire David has ever made. She is a wonder. I'm going to have to add this to our list of minor holidays.
