Family Life

I started to tidy up the Lego last night, clearing the floor in anticipation of vacuuming. Rather than throw everything into a box, as usual, I decided to do a more thorough job and take everything apart first. To understand how much peril this involved, you’d have to understand the rules of Lego. Rule #1: [...]

Happy New Year! Like most of the world, we were up late last night and slept late this morning. Or tried to. At eight thirty we were deafened by a herd of elephants thundering through the house. That’s what it sounded like, anyway. Our boys, being small children, don’t qualify as “most of the world” [...]

Debbie brought down a whole bunch of toys from the attic. Daniel and Joel have played with these before, but Micah hasn’t. Of course, after a prolonged absence these toys were greeted with as much excitement and enthusiasm as if they had been brand new. The original intent in bringing out the old toys was [...]

Rub a dub dub Three boys in the tub And who do you think they be? There’s Daniel and Joeley And Micah the baby Scrub them up, kids all three Rub a dub dub Who jumped in the tub? And said “Please fill it up Mum” ‘Twas Daniel that said it And laughed when declared [...]

When I dug out the driveway last night, my intent was to make sure we could leave this morning to go to church. Before setting out, however, we got a phone call to tell us the morning’s service was canceled. Everybody was still digging themselves out from yesterday’s snowfall. We live on a main street [...]