Family Life

POST OF AN OLD DRAFT. Originally dated Sunday, April 13, 2008. Sunday evenings are a little different now. Instead of the usual church service, we meet together for prayer. Still the same venue, but instead of a congregation sitting in orderly rows facing the front, where a man stands behind the pulpit to address the [...]

I’d been asleep for half an hour already when Debbie came to bed at about 1:00 am last night. We’re not terribly good at going to bed at a sensible hour. Sometimes we blame it on the kids, but mostly it’s procrastination. Anyway, Debbie was drifting off to sleep when she heard something that woke [...]

I took the boys to the Auto Show today. I went with Daniel last year and he really enjoyed it. He’d been looking forward to it again this year. I wasn’t sure whether to take Joel. Daniel had been talking about it for weeks, but Joel hadn’t even asked if he would or could go. [...]

Here I am on yet another business trip. This is the third or fourth week in a row that I’ve had to travel for work, and there will be more to come. There’s lots of work for me, for which I’m grateful, and this is a good customer that I’m quite happy to go the [...]

Good news! Today’s work day was just under 12 hours, instead of the 14-16 hours I’d been dreading. It meant that I could come home and eat dinner at a reasonable hour, and tuck the boys into bed. That’s always a highlight. And my cold is no worse than it was yesterday. It’s no better [...]