Family Life

I’m on the road again. Today was a 13-hour drive to Indiana. Tomorrow is the annual Gloria board meeting, lasting most of the day. The next day is the long drive home again. It’s worth it, but pretty exhausting. The good news is that I’m in a pretty fancy hotel. The Indiana philharmonic orchestra was [...]

Micah is teething. This is not a pleasant experience for him. It is not brief. It is not quiet. When his teeth trouble him, he screams and screams and screams. For an hour at a time. It makes no difference if he’s being carried and comforted, or if he’s left to fend for himself on [...]

The weather is getting colder. It’s time to change the boy’s wardrobes from summer to winter wear: Jeans and long-sleeved shirts. Of course, what fit them last winter is too small now. The boys are growing up. Daniel gets new clothes. The oldest always gets new clothes. Joel wears his older brother’s clothes from a [...]

Time Magazine’s cover article this week was on the birth order of kids in the family. The short version: Eldest child is the most favoured, particularly in nutrition, education, and status (parental attention). Youngest child is cherished, coddled and (eventually) has his parents all to himself, as the eldest did years ago. Middle child is [...]

It’s Monday, swimming day. I have been taking Daniel and Joel every week, and they enjoy the fact that it’s just the two of them with Dad. So far I’ve been going in the water with Joel, but today the instructor wanted the parents to stay out for the first half of the class. He [...]