Family Life

Micah is not sleeping well at night. He stays up till late, protests loudly and at length whenever he’s put in his bed, and generally keeps the rest of us up. He’s not getting enough sleep himself, and I know I’m not getting enough sleep. Of all parenting issues with small children, sleep problems can [...]

All of a sudden a hard drive on my computer got really slow. There were no error messages or anything, it just took a long time to copy anything to that drive. I noticed this a couple of days ago, but being busy I hadn’t really looked into it. Today I used some utility software [...]

When I dug out the driveway last night, my intent was to make sure we could leave this morning to go to church. Before setting out, however, we got a phone call to tell us the morning’s service was canceled. Everybody was still digging themselves out from yesterday’s snowfall. We live on a main street [...]

The snow that started falling yesterday continued all morning. Debbie went grocery shopping and returned declaring the roads quite slippery. The snowfall continued all afternoon. I was feeling under the weather, so to speak, and the actual gloomy weather was all the encouragement I needed to stay inside and have a quiet day. I played [...]

Things at home are slowly returning to normal. Debbie and the boys are recovering from their illness and everybody feels a whole lot better. Everybody except me: I promptly caught the family cold as soon as I got back. I started getting the first tingles a couple of days ago, and by now those twitches [...]