Family Life

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 [...]

My flight from Frankfurt was held up for five minutes while they got somebody from maintenance to come and make an adjustment to one of the cockpit instruments. Because of that brief delay the plane missed its departure slot, and we sat on the ground and waited for an hour before the control tower gave [...]

I took the Christmas tree down on Tuesday. It is now Friday. This afternoon Debbie showed the boys the time-lapse video of me dismantling the tree. I got home from work, we sat down to eat dinner, and Joel excitedly told me how he’d seen this video of me taking the Christmas tree down. Daniel’s [...]

We sang Christmas carols for a while tonight before putting the boys to bed. Debbie played the piano and sang. I sat on the coffee table and held Micah and sang. Micah (8 months) rested his head on my shoulder and hummed a continuous monotone. His version of singing. He loves music and will sing [...]

It’s fun to be home for Christmas. The past couple of years we’ve celebrated Christmas while traveling, enjoying a warm climate and the company of extended family. This year Christmas will be at home. It will be just us, no extended family. It will be the usual winter freeze, no sunny beach. But we’ll be [...]