Family Life

Today started just after eight, with Daniel coming into bed to snuggle and chatter as only a three-year-old can. This is your wake-up call. Then it was all hands on deck, action stations. Get up, get some breakfast, get dressed, get the boys breakfast, dress the boys, teeth and toilet for the whole family, pack [...]

I’m scheduled to take pictures of some of my machines at work, sometime this coming week. It’s time-consuming, because there’s a backdrop to set up, lights with their stands and umbrellas, camera and tripod, plus all the technical stuff like metering and white balance. This is compounded by the fact that the lights are ten [...]

At bedtime prayers with the boys tonight, Joel asked me to pray for “keep me safe of dinosaurs, dragons, monsters and things like that.” So I did.
A thunderstorm was passing by, and knowing how much Joel dislikes thunder I also prayed that God would protect the boys from thunder, lightning and the storm. Then as [...]

Today we’re back to hot and humid weather after a couple of weeks of coolness. When the weather first turned cool there was a momentary feeling of dismay. “Oh no! Summer is almost over!” But after a muggy day like today I wouldn’t mind some Autumn.
It’s been a very dry summer. Today I went out [...]

I was reading an article about financial worries around the world due to the current unstable housing market in the US. Today’s problem started several years ago when real estate was booming and house prices were going through the roof. Buy! Sell! The economy was in a frenzy. We noticed because we were looking to [...]