Family Life

I started to tidy up the Lego last night, clearing the floor in anticipation of vacuuming. Rather than throw everything into a box, as usual, I decided to do a more thorough job and take everything apart first. To understand how much peril this involved, you’d have to understand the rules of Lego. Rule #1: [...]

On Friday Debbie made white bread in the bread maker. That evening we had thick slices of fresh bread, liberally spread with butter, dipped in savoury home-made vegetable soup. What a delightful meal for a cold winter’s night. Daniel had his first swimming lesson for the season, and it was the usual rush to finish [...]

I am finally up to date with our photos. I’ll be posting half a dozen or so every day on flickr until they are all online. Here’s a picture of Daniel climbing a tree last fall. I noticed a few interesting things from the 800-odd photos I sorted through: * Almost all the photos are [...]

After tucking the boys into bed I try to disentangle myself from their incessant need to chat and leave the room without too much trauma. Often Joel will call out, “I just need to tell you one more thing, Daddy!” Joel’s “one more thing” can last quite a while, and I’m reluctant to get sucked [...]

Most of my readers (all three of you) were curious to see the results of my daring hairdressing. So here you go: Debbie with short hair. For comparison, click here to see a photo from 2004 (pre-kids) with long-ish hair.