Family Life

Last night Micah cried from 12:45am till 5:30am. About an hour of that he spent in our bed, and I spent another hour walking him. It made no difference, so he spent the rest of the time in his crib. He wasn’t sick, he wasn’t hungry, he didn’t need changing. Was he getting a new [...]

This photo was from way back in mid-December, when winter was just getting under way. We had a snow storm that made driving very difficult. Most people just stayed home. We weren’t too surprised. After all, we were heading into the dead of winter and you have to expect something like that sooner or later. [...]

Last week the dismaying news came out that, due to budget cuts, NASA would be abandoning the Mars rover robot Spirit. This tough little space-faring golf cart landed on Mars just before my first child, Daniel, was born. I had been following the mission since before the rocket lifted off on its seven-month voyage. At [...]

We went to an engagement shower this afternoon. A friend of mine, Deb, is getting married in May, and some of her friends took advantage of the fact that she was in town for Easter and organized the event. It was fun. Low-key, friendly, lots of laughter. The happy couple live in Texas, a long, [...]

I’d been asleep for half an hour already when Debbie came to bed at about 1:00 am last night. We’re not terribly good at going to bed at a sensible hour. Sometimes we blame it on the kids, but mostly it’s procrastination.
Anyway, Debbie was drifting off to sleep when she heard something that woke her. [...]