Family Life

It’s Spring! Warmer weather, sunny days, tulips pushing out of the ground, birds, squirrels and the occasional fox back from hibernation. In that same spirit of renewal I’ve moved this blog to a new server. My frustration had been mounting at the problems with my old web host until I finally took the plunge and [...]

It’s spring, and the damp has brought it’s seasonal troubles to the car’s electrical systems. A front-end collision many years ago (before our time) resulted in damage to the engine computer wiring harness. Several repair attempts left a hodgepodge of mismatched splices wrapped in miles of sticky, gummy, melted electrical tape. It’s a mess. The [...]

Daniel came running into the room this morning complaining bitterly about Joel hitting him with this pitchfork-shaped toy. Stabbing him in the back, so to speak. Debbie calmed him down and explained that yelling and screaming was no way to sort things out, that he should use words, that he should say to Joel, “Please [...]

Micah is taking potty training way too seriously. For the last couple of weeks he has been waking at night every hour and a half or so, calling out “Mum come!” quite loudly. Debbie groans, drags herself out of bed, picks up the toddler, takes off his diaper and sits him on the toilet. Where [...]

Daniel’s Aunty Raich sent him a wooden model plane for his birthday. There’s the picture from the box on the right. He was pretty excited about it. This ranked as a Pretty Cool Gift in his opinion, and he wanted to build it straight away. His younger brothers didn’t want to miss out on the [...]