My husband went back to work this week after two weeks off, and to be honest, I oscillated between looking forward to getting back to regular routine and dreading the kids’ emotional fallout from getting back into our regular routine. This week has been fine, anticlimactically enough, and so yesterday we went to an amusement […]
Archives for 2010
Bad Mummy!
August 9, 2010 by 1 Comment
Check out my piece up at Yummy Mummy – where I talk about not winning the Mother of the Year award. I coulda been a contender! I coulda been a somebody, instead of just a…mom? Huh. See you there, I hope! xox
Travelled down that road and back again
August 5, 2010 by 6 Comments
So I’ve been feeling blue and gloomy and then I realized this morning that in four weeks the kids are back at school, and a cursory glance at their dressers indicates that every single pair of pants they own have no knees. I’m not saying they have small rips, either, I mean that when they […]
Giselle Bundchen must be an awesome mother, because she breastfeeds.
August 3, 2010 by 12 Comments
I’m not sure what I would do without a supermodel’s parenting advice. Surely I would not be able to be a truly effective parent without it. Especially advice from the lovely mouth of one Giselle Bundchen. First, Giselle has advised me that my pregnancy weight gain was a direct result of my gestational evolution into […]
Are we there yet…are we there yet…are we there yet…
August 2, 2010 by 5 Comments
I spent nine and a half hours in the minivan today! We’ve been on vacation for the past week, and this morning we left at six to get a nice early start. After less than four hours of driving, we pulled into Golden BC, which is approximately three hours from home. Wow, we said to […]
Almost Wordless Wednesday
July 25, 2010 by 3 Comments
I tend to be a wordy girl, rather than a wordless one. But here are some of my favourite moments from last week’s chilly and rainy zoo trip. Jake with his favourite animal. Mark, there’s a stegasaurus behind you!
Interview with Nicole
July 25, 2010 by 6 Comments
I’m doing a meme from Marilyn over at A Lot of Loves. Fun! I should probably warn you that I’m feeling PRETTY giddy and silly today because it’s sunny and beautiful and I spent the morning at a pool party! In Calgary! And it was warm! In Calgary! I feel like I won the Saturday […]
