To Begin with the Beginning, and such like

Dear Friends and Relations,


Before we bring you up to the present, we wanted to look back somewhat over the past couple years.

Heidi graduated from Wheaton College in 2001 and worked in western Chicago whilst waiting for Micah to return from Bangladesh and, after that, to finish his studies at Wheaton. I shan’t dwell on this period much, partly because it is somewhat foggy in detail for me, and partly because I suspect it mayn’t be of much interest to you the reader. If we are fortunate enough to have anyone visit this blog, I suppose it may be those who are well acquainted with that period already.

To summarise, we found an apartment on College Avenue, and settled for a year and a bit next to Larry-the-90-year-old-ex-convict, a good-hearted fellow with a penchant for vodka and plastic flowers. Laden with the many gifts of our recent marriage (both personal and material), this was, in retrospect, a charmed period for us. The apartment was a small one-bedroom place beside the train tracks, where we spent many mornings making waffles with our five waffle makers (all wedding presents) which allowed us the rare opportunity of having a waffle breakfast together, without necessitating one person’s standing beside the maker all the while.