Family Life

The boys have a fixed bedtime ritual, and part of it involves turning off the light. Such a simple step, so intrinsic to going to bed, and yet so fraught with conflict and formal negotiation. On the surface, the agreed-upon procedure is that the boys take turns: tonight Daniel turns off the light, tomorrow night [...]

After a few months of nothing much to do, it looks like we’ll be super-busy at work from now until the fall. A good six months of solid work. Nothing wrong with that. We’re bringing in a whole bunch of contractors to help out with the rush. The problem is we have nowhere to put [...]

These days Daniel flies into a fit of rage at the slightest provocation, usually when he doesn’t get his own way. The unusual thing is not that it happens, but that it’s so extreme. The cause can be the most innocuous thing imaginable, such as giving him an orange vitamin pill when he wanted a [...]

Last night Micah cried from 12:45am till 5:30am. About an hour of that he spent in our bed, and I spent another hour walking him. It made no difference, so he spent the rest of the time in his crib. He wasn’t sick, he wasn’t hungry, he didn’t need changing. Was he getting a new [...]

All of a sudden a hard drive on my computer got really slow. There were no error messages or anything, it just took a long time to copy anything to that drive. I noticed this a couple of days ago, but being busy I hadn’t really looked into it. Today I used some utility software [...]