Family Life

Today was my last day at work here in Hungary, a relief and a worry at the same time. It has been a good week, simple, with easy-going people, good weather, good food, plenty of sleep. But I’m keen to go home. Debbie and the boys are sick and really need some support. I’ll breathe [...]

Micah went to bed at about 9 tonight. This offers us an evening of unprecedented freedom. A couple of weeks ago we moved his crib upstairs, as far away from the rest of the family as possible, where he could cry to his heart’s content (OK, so that’s a somewhat contradictory turn of phrase). We [...]

Winter is coming. It’s getting colder every day, and we’ve had several hard frosts. We absolutely had to put the roses to bed before the cold wiped them out for good, so I set out this morning to buy some mulch. We have these little fences we set up around each rose bush, which we [...]

Yes! This is my one-hundredth post! When I started this blog I was skeptical on whether I’d be able to keep up the pace of a post a day. One hundred days later, I’m starting to feel like it’s an institution, part of the daily routine. Sometimes it’s an unwelcome chore: I’d much rather go [...]

We were driving home this evening, about a mile from home, when Joel, 2, spoke up: “I can see our home!” We spent a minute trying to convince him that he couldn’t actually see home from here, we were too far away. But he kept insisting, “I can see our home!” He was pretty pleased [...]