Family Life

Last weekend I attempted to make an igloo. It turned out more like a castle turret, but it was fun to build. In the intervening week we’ve had a partial thaw followed by more snow. The thaw melted most of the remaining snow in the back yard. There hadn’t been much left anyway, after building [...]

Yesterday it wasn’t my idea to go outside and play in the snow, and yet I enjoyed it. So this afternoon, at lunch, I declared my intention of building an igloo. We had lots of snow, it was just below freezing (so the snow was easy to pack without being slushy), I had the whole [...]

With so much snow outside, Debbie thought it was a crime to spend a Saturday cooped up inside. Funny, I thought exactly the opposite. What better reason to be warm and dry indoors than when it’s cold and snowy out there? But she would not be reasoned with. She shooed all the boys out the [...]

New Year’s Day, 2008, and we had our second snowfall of the winter. Beautiful, thick, deep snow, pure white. My first thought was to send the boys out to play. Debbie loves to shovel, so she could go out and clear the driveway while keeping an eye on the boys, and maybe I’d get a [...]

A friend came around to play, and Daniel and Joel each received a small Christmas gift. Debbie had to feed the baby, so she gave the boys strict instructions to take the gifts upstairs and leave them on the gift pile waiting for Christmas. Along the way the boys unwrapped their gifts, to see what [...]