Family Life

Micah is sick again. He’d been recovering nicely from his previous cold and now he has a new one. Poor baby. He’s feeling miserable, not eating well, sleeping more. Debbie is sick with the same cold. She’s also utterly miserable and would like to spend all day in bed, but there are kids to look [...]

For years Debbie has complained about how my camera is big, bulky, heavy, awkward, and complicated. So I bought her a digital camera for Christmas. It’s small and featherlight, and it’s fully automatic. Nothing manual at all. As a bonus, it also does video clips. She loves it. The result is we now have an [...]

For some reason Sundays are really busy or really relaxed. There doesn’t seem to be any middle ground. Today was the busy kind. There was a church business meeting in the evening that I went to. Debbie stayed home with the boys. It took up most of my afternoon, too. I’d taken the minutes at [...]

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 [...]

It’s a curious situation, to have so much to do and yet feel so incapable of doing it. I have a lot I need to accomplish at work, but it’s so deadeningly boring that it’s difficult to drum up enough motivation or enthusiasm to do any of it. It’s ironic in so many ways, because [...]