Family Life

Apparently today was Pancake Day, or so I was informed when I got home. That meant we had to have pancakes for dinner. Seeing as I normally cook pancakes on a Saturday morning, Debbie felt it was only right that I cook them tonight. It seemed like a thinly-veiled plot to get me to make [...]

You know, this trip is really starting to develop a theme. By the time you read through this post you’ll see what I mean. If you’re new to the blog you can catch up on the story so far in part 1 and part 2. The last couple of days have been intense, busy, long, [...]

We decorated cookies with the church young people. It’s always fun to see the results; the process is also quite entertaining. There are bags of icing sugar in different colors (“frosting” for you Americans), and little bowls of decorations. In the jovial, festive atmosphere it doesn’t take much to go from decorating cookies to decorating [...]

I took the Youth Group caroling tonight, around the neighbourhood surrounding our church. There were about ten of us, traipsing around with torches improvised from two-liter plastic pop bottles with candles inside. We had song sheets, we knew the songs, and it wasn’t very cold. In years past within a couple of minutes you couldn’t [...]

Today was just as much hard work as yesterday, the day before, the whole week. Tonight we rushed through dinner, got the boys ready to go out and went to Youth Group. Debbie and I didn’t have a lot of responsibilities–show up, interact with the young people, lead the singing, and go home. Others were [...]