June is such a busy and frantic month, and it seems like everyone is off their game just the teeniest bit. Or is that just my house? Hoo boy, the number of ridiculous arguments that have been going on around here is epic. Epic, I tell you. The children have been disagreeing about everything from, unseasonably enough, the appropriate way to […]
Archives for 2011
It just doesn’t add up.
June 6, 2011 by 11 Comments
I seem to have caught the boys’ cold, it is no one’s favourite time of the month, and the sky is dark grey and it’s chilly and rainy. It’s like a trifecta of mildly depressing things. Also mildly depressing is that I am repeating behaviours that I repeat every single June: I listen to the […]
You put the meaning in my life! You’re the inspiration.
June 3, 2011 by 7 Comments
I waitressed all through university, except for one unfortunate summer in which I worked as a beer girl, ultimately quitting when the requirement was for me to wear a Busch bathing suit to work. Waitressing was not a bad way to make money for a student; the only problem was that by the end of […]
Bo Derek Sings The Gambler
May 30, 2011 by 6 Comments
Last Wednesday Mark got the all-clear from the doctor: no more pneumonia! The second round of antibiotics worked, happily. Sadly, less than two days later he caught his brother’s minor cold, and Friday night I lay awake, listening to him cough relentlessly. Each thing I did for him – propping him up with pillows, giving him […]
If I have to, I can face anything! I am woman!
May 28, 2011 by 11 Comments
I unclogged the gutters today! I know I’ve written about this before, but every time I perform a job like that, I feel like raising my fist in the air and singing “I am strong – STRONG – I am invincible – INVINCIBLE – I am WOMAN.” Hear me roar, I unclogged the gutters! I […]
Beavers are very interesting animals.
May 25, 2011 by 13 Comments
On our recent Victoria Day weekend road trip, we stopped for a break at the information centre in Golden, BC. While my husband took the boys in to use the bathroom, I took the dog for a quick walk and potty break. Query: why do I use the term “potty break” for a dog? Answer […]
I-I-I-I’m Still Alive!
May 24, 2011 by 5 Comments
So here it is, May 23, and we are still here. I guess the rapture didn’t occur after all, or, if it did, I was seriously excluded. I wore my special Judgment Day panties for nothing? NOTHING? I spent the weekend celebrating the birth of Queen Victoria by way of a road trip to visit my in-laws, and […]
