Family Life

Debbie phoned me at work this afternoon: she was just too exhausted to prepare tonight’s dinner. She had something for the kids, but couldn’t we do something special, just the two of us? Of course we could. I phoned a restaurant we like and ordered one of our favourite meals, for pick-up. By the time [...]

Today was our first normal Sunday in weeks. We went to the normal services at the normal times, participating in the normal activities. Last Sunday everybody was snowed in. The week before I was stuck in Frankfurt. Before that I was in Hungary. The Sunday before that we had bad weather and there was hardly [...]

Debbie took Joel grocery shopping today, while I stayed home with Daniel and Micah. Micah was in bed having a nap, so I was essentially alone with Daniel. He had me all to himself, a rare occurrence. Joel and Micah are very demanding of my attention, while Daniel is the most self-sufficient of the three [...]

Our neighbour declared that I must take Debbie out to dinner, in compensation for leaving her stuck at home with the kids by herself for a week, while I was in Hungary. Friends at church proclaimed that I must take Debbie out to dinner, seeing as she’d just recovered from a bout of illness and [...]

My flight from Frankfurt was held up for five minutes while they got somebody from maintenance to come and make an adjustment to one of the cockpit instruments. Because of that brief delay the plane missed its departure slot, and we sat on the ground and waited for an hour before the control tower gave [...]