Family Life

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 [...]

Most of my readers (all three of you) were curious to see the results of my daring hairdressing. So here you go: Debbie with short hair. For comparison, click here to see a photo from 2004 (pre-kids) with long-ish hair.

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 [...]

POST OF AN OLD DRAFT. Originally dated Tuesday, April 15, 2008. I bought Debbie a puzzle for her birthday. She loves puzzles, and I didn’t want to insult her intelligence with something too easy. So I picked one I thought would present a bit of a challenge and hoped she’d find it interesting. Little did [...]

Debbie phoned me at work this afternoon: she was just too exhausted to prepare tonight’s dinner. She had something for the kids, but couldn’t we do something special, just the two of us? Of course we could. I phoned a restaurant we like and ordered one of our favourite meals, for pick-up. By the time [...]