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Dylan Jacob

On Friday September 22, 2006 at 10:00, our nephew Dylan Jacob Kooiman was born. It was a scheduled cesarean section so it wasn’t a surprise, but we were checking our email every 1/2 hour, waiting to hear the announcement and see the first picture. We got to the hospital around 6pm. Dylan had just had [...]

I had a dream last night…

that Reuben was using the reciprocating saw to cut a large hole in our 2nd floor ceiling to wire a ceiling fan. The hole he was making was much too large and the lathe and plaster started crumbling around the supporting walls in the room. Bricks started flying, walls started falling, Reuben kept on reciprocating. [...]

House and Home

The last few days I’ve been sick of owning a house. It became really overwhelming last week when we got a letter from our insurance company that we have to do some electical work and some chimney repair and other repairs … by October 3. One month, pretty much. Last night we went to visit [...]