Family Life

So everybody is sick again. Coughs, runny noses, broken sleep, lethargic. I got to sleep at about 5am last night, kept up by Micah’s restlessness. For several months we slept Micah in a playpen in the office every night, as a way of getting some distance and several closed doors between a noisy baby and [...]

Things at home are slowly returning to normal. Debbie and the boys are recovering from their illness and everybody feels a whole lot better. Everybody except me: I promptly caught the family cold as soon as I got back. I started getting the first tingles a couple of days ago, and by now those twitches [...]

I managed to get off work early today again. I could get used to this! Today’s catching up involved a trip to the bank, where I discovered quite by accident that the government had made a substantial deposit to my account. A week-and-a-half ago I’d been in an awful rush trying to file my tax [...]

I’m weary from travel. Debbie is weary from ten days alone with the children, and from being sick. The boys are weary from also being sick. I’m not sick (yet), so there’s something to be grateful for. But with me away and Debbie and the boys under the weather, it’s like the household has been [...]

Micah is sick again. He’d been recovering nicely from his previous cold and now he has a new one. Poor baby. He’s feeling miserable, not eating well, sleeping more. Debbie is sick with the same cold. She’s also utterly miserable and would like to spend all day in bed, but there are kids to look [...]