On Friday Jake’s kindergarten class had a Mother’s Day Spa Day, in which all the moms brought in deck chairs and lounged in the darkened classroom to the sound of soothing spa music while their five year olds rubbed lotion into their feet, rubbed their shoulders, and brushed their hair. After untangling the brushes from […]
Tell me now, baby, is he good to you? Can he do to you the things that I do?
May 4, 2011 by
I received an invitation for the school’s Volunteer Appreciation Tea. I smiled happily until I realized that the date coincides with the next book fair, which I am running. I cannot attend the Volunteer Appreciation Tea because I’m too busy volunteering. Some days are just like that. I have not been sleeping well lately and […]
Mayday! Mayday!
May 2, 2011 by
After watching The Wedding on Friday, I sank into what can only be described as a state of complete obsession and sloth. I performed the absolute minimum in terms of child maintenance, instead staring at the television, watching and re-watching the highlights, pausing only to trade wedding-related analysis with my mother and grandmother over the phone about […]
The Royal Wedding, or The Reason I’m Going To A 2:30 a.m. Tea Party
April 28, 2011 by
So THE wedding is tomorrow and I’m sure I’m not the only person bourgeois and/or pedestrian enough to be excited about it. Hey, I’m a Canadian girl. One of my fondest memories is when, thirty years ago, my grandma woke me up at four in the morning to watch The Wedding with her, and although […]
Celebrity, Marky Mark, and the Big Egg Hunt
April 26, 2011 by
I was at the grocery store on the weekend, picking up only a couple of items and scanning them through the self-checkout lane when one of the cashiers, a fairly young guy, ran up to me excitedly. “I saw you on CBC!” he said. “I was watching the hockey game and then you were on […]
Birthdays, Mommy Makeovers, Easter, and Earth Day
April 22, 2011 by
It was my birthday yesterday, just in case you missed the announcements and my not-so-shy reminders from the rooftops. I love birthdays. I think everyone should be celebrated on their birthdays with an outpouring of love and affection and maybe even some cake. I was the happy recipient of an ice-cream cake, two new yoga […]
It’s only Tuesday? We’re all going to die!
April 19, 2011 by
Here’s a view of our backyard; the kids are in their pajamas because someone who is not me took the kids out in only their pajamas to take a picture of the giant snowball that they made. What a weird day. It’s only 2:15 and it has just been a strange day. I keep reminding […]
