Family Life

This is a photo of Micah the day after he was born. At the time my thoughts ran something like this: “Another boy! That’s good. Easy. Three boys will be much the same as two. We’ll just continue on the same routine we have with the other two. This parenting thing isn’t so hard after [...]

Absolutely nothing to write about today. Work is hard. There’s progress, and that’s satisfying, and there are setbacks, and they are frustrating. Long hours, dead tired at night, not much of a conversationalist. But there’s an occasional bright spark. Tonight I played arcade games on the computer with the boys. Very exciting! Especially for Joel. [...]

I’ve been programming all day. I started the morning with some error programming. That is, ways to manage errors and recover gracefully from problems without crashing. In my line of work I use very robust industrial controllers. Short of being hit by lightning (and I’ve seen that happen once), the software never crashes. Ever. The [...]

Tonight we broke with routine just enough to remind us why sticking to the plan is a good idea, especially when it comes to the boys. It was the boys’ bedtime. Micah (3 months old) was fussing, I was feeling weary and in need of a coffee, and inexplicably Debbie started getting the two oldest [...]