I got a very good book a couple of days ago, for one pursuit of mine, game design. The name of the book is The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses, by Jesse Schell. In the photo above my wife and youngest son are brushing their teeth together. He has only four teeth, but takes up as much time as she does. He mostly just goes through the motions, as best he can. He likes to imitate and do whatever we big folk do.
My four-year-old is much the same, but with greater intensity. If I wear a hat when we go outside, he has to have one, too, and the same type as nearly as possible. Right now he squats beside me while I type. I think of how Jesus says it would be better for us that we have a millstone around our necks and cast into the sea than that we should lead one of these little ones astray.
Christopher had a bicycle helmet on for the past twenty minutes or so. I asked him why, and he said for us to go biking. I had forgotten that I asked if they would like to go biking this afternoon. My wife was sleeping, and had David, the little one with her. I could not find Ashley, so I could not easily leave. I would first have to find her, and I thought she was at her friend's house, but was not sure.
Rounding them all up would take time, and my oldest son was watching TV in the back room (where we keep our TV monitor, though it is never hooked up to any kind of TV broadcasting device). He was watching M*A*S*H DVD's. It is not easy to pry Nathaniel loose from the old DVD's we have once he gets started watching.
I teach at 7:00 p.m. this evening, and finish at 9:00. Two hours a day is enough to sustain us, and I've done that for the past two years. But if we are going to make our trip to America next year, I'll need to work a little more to save up some.
My wife needs some help now. I had better help her.
Love, Nathaniel
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