Alert! I am going to talk about the weather! I have become your grandma and I’m going to discuss the current weather conditions! We are having a heat wave! In Calgary! In September! It’s glorious, I tell you. Other than spotting my neighbour shirtless, it has been one lovely day. For one thing, we are […]
Archives for 2009
Sick Day
September 22, 2009 by 4 Comments
The thing about back-to-school is all the back-to-illness that seems to come with it. “Hey, Mom!” Mark said gleefully, “You’ll never believe it! The school has water fountains and I can drink from them whenever I want to!” For someone like me – and I say this without pride – the knowledge that Mark has […]
Weekends
September 20, 2009 by 5 Comments
Saturday morning I saw my neighbours – a younger couple with no children – loading up their vehicle to go hiking in the mountains. I felt odd, like I was viewing some strange yet familiar ritual from another country that I used to inhabit. My husband and I used to head out nearly every weekend […]
Post-Birthday Depression
September 16, 2009 by 3 Comments
I knew today would be a bad day. I wonder if that is a self-fulfilling prophecy? I mean, if you think a day is going to be bad, does that mean that karmically you are making your day bad? I’ve been reading this interesting book called “How Yoga Works” and it talks about sowing seeds, […]
Labour Stories – Part Three, Jake’s Birthday
September 15, 2009 by 4 Comments
As I vaguely remember from my days as one gainfully employed, getting called into work is no fun, in fact, it is enough to ruin your day. At the very least, it doesn’t bring out the best in you. That sums up the scenario with my delivery nurse, Cheryl. You see, when I was in […]
Labour Stories – Part Two, The Hospital
September 12, 2009 by 1 Comment
I fully support women who choose to give birth in places other than a hospital – their own homes, a birthing centre, or, in the case of an amazing You Tube video I saw, the Mediterranean Sea. A Russian woman traveled to Israel to give birth in the Mediterranean and it was astonishingly beautiful, the […]
September 10, 2009 by 5 Comments
I have an article up at Yummy Mummy – check it out! And yes, I’m wearing a cowboy hat.
