Did you know that Mercury has been in retrograde for the past twenty-four days, and that phenomenon is associated with a lack of energy and sluggishness? Me either. But it has, so perhaps that explains things a little. I just assumed I was having a raging case of PMS. Speaking of raging cases of PMS, […]
Archives for 2012
Nicole’s Gone Kind Of Wild
April 2, 2012 by 17 Comments
I got home at 8:00 last night from a weekend at the in-laws’, home to a mountain of laundry, an empty refrigerator, and the need to detox and/or go on a cleanse. My poor body. That is all I am going to say about that. This morning I reluctantly went to the grocery store, extremely dissatisfied with […]
Just call me Flylady
March 27, 2012 by 14 Comments
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 […]
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 […]
