I have a confession to make that may make me unpopular or perhaps even shunned from the community. I’m going to take a deep breath and be out with it. Here it is, my dirty little secret: my house is always clean, neat, and organized. Now please stay with me a moment – this is […]
Archives for March 2012
Eight! Eight! Eight is Great!
March 23, 2012 by 10 Comments
Yesterday I was doing some things around the school (putting up posters asking for volunteers to help in the naturalization area. Do you want to help? No? Yeah, neither does anyone else.) when I heard the kindergarten class singing their morning song. It is a song familiar to me, since I heard Jake singing it […]
The Tin Anniversary
March 21, 2012 by 9 Comments
I don’t know if you remember what the weather was like nine years and three hundred and sixty three days ago, but I do, perfectly. For a month it had been minus thirty and snowing, but suddenly the temperature turned warm and mild. It was a beautiful day in Banff, and I was walking around […]
Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.
March 19, 2012 by 7 Comments
As we pulled out of the parking lot at the gymnastics centre, with my frayed nerves and cupcake-stained children, I silently vowed never to host another large children’s birthday party ever again. Truly, I think we are now past the age where I can allow my kids to invite fourteen children and still expect to emerge from […]
Up The Irish
March 17, 2012 by 11 Comments
Today, in addition to making three dozen cupcakes and a loaf of banana bread, I am going to try my hand at Irish Soda Bread, in the festive spirit of the day. I am also making kale chips and roasted asparagus, which count as festively Irish because of the green colour. I am in general […]
Math Geeks and Pi Day and Blowing Things Up
March 14, 2012 by 16 Comments
It’s Pi Day, the day that math geeks everywhere celebrate the ability to measure properties of a circle. Hooray for Pi Day! I don’t mean to boast, but I am awesome at math. Oh sure, I would be a little rusty these days, but back in the day I rocked the calculus world. I remember […]
If the icy sidewalks don’t kill the elderly, I will.
March 12, 2012 by 12 Comments
I am in a mood. A MOOD, people. It’s a good thing I am not armed, or have violent tendencies. And lest we think that this is Daylight Savings Time related, it actually isn’t. Wait, did you just correct me to say that it’s Daylight SAVING Time, not SAVINGS? Well, prepare to be stabbed. I […]
