Family Life

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 [...]

Some nights the kids get to play in the bath. Tonight was not one of those nights. Tonight it was assembly-line style. Daniel, the oldest, was ready first: into the tub, dunk, lather, rinse, haul out onto the mat, dry, pajamas, done. Daniel was at the haul-out phase when Joel wandered into the tub, and [...]

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: Each [...]

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 dinner [...]

This afternoon we went to the local Swiss National Day celebrations. We go every year, eating lunch on the grass in the shade of a tree, balancing paper plates on our knees, striving to keep offspring (three now!) from wandering off into the crowd. There’s a stage and rows of chairs set up in a [...]