Family Life

Micah has an established bedtime routine. He’ll quietly sit on his own in the playpen in our office, playing with blocks and reassured by the presence of both parents sitting at their computers. This baby has separation anxiety issues. He’s OK with being on his own as long as he’s not alone, if you get [...]

For the parents, that is. Aiming for the 9:30 morning service at church today, we arrived at 10:45. And it wasn’t an unusual morning. There was the usual flurry of activity, getting the kids up, dressed, toileted, breakfasted, toileted again, tooth-brushed, shod, and out the door into the car. Oh, and Debbie and I also [...]

We went to a wedding today. Rolf, a young guy I’ve known for twenty years, married Irene, a Chinese girl. It was a hot day. An interesting and somewhat unusual day. A very relaxing day. First the relaxing part. The wedding was at 1pm, the reception was at six-ish, and we eventually got home after [...]

About three weeks ago we went to see Pixar’s Wall-E movie at the theater. We left Micah with a babysitter and took Daniel and Joel. The three oldest boys in the family (that includes me) had been looking forward to this movie for months. You can’t go wrong with robots and rockets. Besides, this is [...]

I started blogging about a year ago with the goal of one post per day, wondering if I’d be able to sustain the pace. The first couple of weeks were difficult, as you’d expect for any new venture. But then I got into the stride of it and began to look forward to my daily [...]