Family Life

This photo was from way back in mid-December, when winter was just getting under way. We had a snow storm that made driving very difficult. Most people just stayed home. We weren’t too surprised. After all, we were heading into the dead of winter and you have to expect something like that sooner or later. [...]

Our neighbour declared that I must take Debbie out to dinner, in compensation for leaving her stuck at home with the kids by herself for a week, while I was in Hungary. Friends at church proclaimed that I must take Debbie out to dinner, seeing as she’d just recovered from a bout of illness and [...]

I’m weary from travel. Debbie is weary from ten days alone with the children, and from being sick. The boys are weary from also being sick. I’m not sick (yet), so there’s something to be grateful for. But with me away and Debbie and the boys under the weather, it’s like the household has been [...]

There’s no gentle way to explain this, and Debbie certainly didn’t hesitate to fill me in on all the gory details. She was in full blown rant mode before I even had a chance to take my coat off, when I walked in the door this evening. I asked if she wanted to tell the [...]

A wonderful opportunity presented itself today: a friend offered to babysit so we could go out to dinner. We rarely eat out, and we’re kid-free even less often. Needless to say, we jumped at the opportunity. Debbie already knew where she wanted to go, which led me to question whether she has this mental list [...]