Did you read the Little House on the Prairie books? I was delighted by them as a child. As a child I could just imagine the sheer joy of finding an orange, a stick of candy, a tiny homemade cake – made with WHITE SUGAR – and a penny in my stocking at Christmas. I […]
Don’t it make my brown eyes bluuuuueeee.
September 4, 2011 by
So I’ve been blue, due to a number of factors, the most pressing being disappointment over not being offered a writing contract that I had my heart set on. I’ve been in mourning about it, wallowing and eating all manner of bad things, and reading my most favourite comfort book, Diary of a Provincial Lady. […]
Pretty Girls
September 1, 2011 by
I turned the furnace on today; it’s been chilly and pouring rain -it even snowed in the mountains – and seems fitting, somehow, for the end of summer vacation. Frankly, it’s a bit depressing. But not as depressing as this: This t-shirt was for sale at JC Penney – was, but not anymore. Someone at […]
Where will we be when the summer’s gone?
August 29, 2011 by
Have I mentioned that it has been – wait for it – unseasonably hot around here? Honestly, it’s beautiful, and every day I have a sneaking feeling that I have been transported to a different city without my knowledge. Today it was – wait for it – thirty degrees Celcius which is both highly abnormal […]
T minus 7
August 26, 2011 by
My husband has been away on a golf trip and yesterday I did something I haven’t done since my single-girl days: I had popcorn for dinner. I announced it to the kids that we were going to have pancakes and popcorn for dinner, and that announcement was met with silent, nervous smiles. “Do you mean, we’re […]
The magic is GONE
August 23, 2011 by
I realize it was only a few short days ago when I was waxing melancholic about the end of summer, and how much I was going to miss the boys, and while that is still true in theory, the reality is that suddenly the children seem ready to go back to school. Suddenly I am […]
Updates and a meme!
August 20, 2011 by
I feel like I, perhaps, left my dear readers hanging; I will make amends by updating you on the goings-on in the Boyhouse. 1) Mark has been using an inhaler for a week, and he has NOT COUGHED FOR A WEEK. Happy coincidence? Related: I have been sleeping uninterrupted through the night. Not once have […]
