Right this minute, there is a news story on TV, in honour of Canada Day, all about the words “eh”, “knapsacks”, and “washroom”, and how ketchup chips are a Canadian thing. American friends, I must know this for true: are there no ketchup chips in the States? Really? If that is true, I am very sad for […]
Archives for 2012
69 Days of Summer Vacation; Mark and Jake Are Going To Do It All!
June 27, 2012 by 7 Comments
I was going to do a “Wordless Wednesday” and just post this picture of my kids on their last day of Grade One and Two: But there is a reason I don’t do Wordless Wednesdays, and that is because I am much, much too wordy. I want to tell you all about the last day […]
It’s Coming From Inside The House!
June 25, 2012 by 7 Comments
How was your weekend? Normally my weekends are fairly uneventful, but this weekend was the exception to the rule. A while back, the CBC was having a fundraiser for the Calgary Food Bank, and my girlfriends and I managed to purchase an evening with local celebrity and food goddess extraordinaire Julie van Rosendaal, from Dinner […]
Cheese is my boyfriend, but we’re breaking up.
June 21, 2012 by 14 Comments
“I think you actually are under a lot of stress,” my friend said to me the other day, “But you just don’t want to complain about it because it’s princess-stress.” Exactly. Last night, Jake had a screaming nightmare, and I don’t know what you do when your kids wake you up in the middle of […]
Adventures in Shopping
June 18, 2012 by 6 Comments
So far, it has been a very strange day. I will say that, although I am very happy at the hard working contractors and their willingness to put in extra time to get the job done (GIT ER DUN), I am starting to get very TIRED of having people in the house all the time. […]
I think I’m a Winter
June 13, 2012 by 12 Comments
I’m starting to talk like our contractors. My husband asked me, casually, what the tile guys were going to do with the cement shower base and cinderblock bench. “They’re gonna beef it up real good” was what I actually told him. Because I now know ALL when it comes to pouring the cement for a […]
I has a sad
June 10, 2012 by 9 Comments
Have you ever had one of those days where you are sad, but not for a particularly valid reason, and that lack of a valid reason makes you even more sad? That was me today. As I swept up the dust, again, I started to feel limp and wrung-out, with the thought of excessive noise […]
