Family Life

I cut Debbie’s hair the other day, and I cut it way shorter than usual. Debbie has long hair, and every six months or so she complains about how unmanageable it’s getting. Then I cut off two or three inches and everybody’s happy. This time I took off about eight inches. That’s a lot. Her [...]

So everybody is sick again. Coughs, runny noses, broken sleep, lethargic. I got to sleep at about 5am last night, kept up by Micah’s restlessness. For several months we slept Micah in a playpen in the office every night, as a way of getting some distance and several closed doors between a noisy baby and [...]

Happy New Year! Like most of the world, we were up late last night and slept late this morning. Or tried to. At eight thirty we were deafened by a herd of elephants thundering through the house. That’s what it sounded like, anyway. Our boys, being small children, don’t qualify as “most of the world” [...]