Family Life

I had a break today from the usual humdrum at work. Customers called for assistance on machines that I had nothing to do with. Nobody else in the department was available to help, not even the people who had originally created those machines, so it was up to me. There I was, having never seen [...]

These things just snowball out of control. It started with an idea I had to write down some family history. My brother kindly provided some web hosting space and set up a wiki for me. All I had to do was start typing, and learn a few of the software’s editing idiosyncrasies. Easy. A few [...]

Contrary to what you might think from this photo, Micah does not like being put in bed. In general, he wants to be held all the time and doesn’t like being put down, and he especially doesn’t like being put down in his crib. Bedtime is often drawn out and painfully noisy, as the baby [...]

We were invited out to lunch today by Pat & Ruth, friends from church. It’s always a treat to relax and not have to prepare a meal and clean up afterwards, especially at a kid-friendly home such as theirs. Today’s visit was all the more memorable because they had some gifts for the children (and [...]

Nothing could have prepared us for a day like today. We thought we were going to get a lot of snow, but that was the least of it. The day started off a lot earlier than we expected, with Micah, the baby, crying and screaming at about 6am. That went on for an hour, and [...]