Family Life

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 [...]

Micah is not sleeping well at night. He stays up till late, protests loudly and at length whenever he’s put in his bed, and generally keeps the rest of us up. He’s not getting enough sleep himself, and I know I’m not getting enough sleep. Of all parenting issues with small children, sleep problems can [...]

So I’m stuck in yet another hotel room. I’d been so looking forward to getting home, too. The plan was to arrive home this afternoon, changing planes in Frankfurt along the way. Instead, I got to look out the terminal window as my plane pushed back from the jetway on its way home without me. [...]

Losing stuff is a pain. Friday I lost a contact lens. Yesterday I lost my luggage, which contained my other contact lens. This morning I had a scheduled appointment with my optometrist at the contact lens clinic, and I had no contacts. I went to my appointment anyway, ordered a new lens to replace the [...]

You know, this trip is really starting to develop a theme. By the time you read through this post you’ll see what I mean. If you’re new to the blog you can catch up on the story so far in part 1 and part 2. The last couple of days have been intense, busy, long, [...]