I had so many plans for this last week of summer vacation – the pool! the zoo! the amusement park! – and the weather has been beautifully warm. It would be a perfect week for all those things! Unfortunately, the city is hidden in a giant cloud of smoke, courtesy of the wildfires out west. […]
No half measures.
August 10, 2015 by 5 Comments
This morning my husband went back to work after three weeks off, and on that festive note, I headed to the dentist for a cleaning and checkup. What better way to start out a week after so much fun family time? I’m happy to have modern dentistry at my disposal and I like having non-rotten […]
NEVER AGAIN
August 5, 2015 by 7 Comments
My husband has taken three consecutive weeks off of work this summer. Such a thing has never happened before. The result was we spent five days at the lake with my parents – during which we left the kids for a night and road-tripped to Jasper, just the two of us – then after less […]
Perms and jumpsuits
July 15, 2015 by 11 Comments
It’s Summer Productivity Week around here – in other words, the week that the boys are in karate camp. THE HOUSE IS SO QUIET, YOU GUYS. I am getting so much done! Yesterday I went to the hair salon, despite this being the kind of thing I can easily do with the kids at home. […]
I’ve got 99 problems, but after tonight chairing the School Council/ Parent Association will not be one of them.
May 13, 2015 by 4 Comments
The long weekend is so early this year! It’s really thrown me off my game. I just realized that this is the earliest it can possibly be, so it’s not just me and my “What? Already?” feelings. Adding to the panic-at-the-disco feeling is that – in addition to my husband being away earlier this week, […]
Advice to my teen self: rock the lipstick.
April 24, 2015 by 13 Comments
There’s no spoilers or anything in this post, but is anyone else surprised Grey’s Anatomy is still on TV? I haven’t watched that show since they killed off super-hot Mark Sloan, because I was on the fence about the show’s kind-of lameness for months before that, and killing off McSteamy was the last straw for […]
Bringing Happy Home
April 1, 2015 by 5 Comments
I flew in from Maui yesterday and boy, are my arms tired! Sorry. I’m still pretty tired from a) flying the red eye on Monday night and b) dealing with an overtired child who was too tired to sleep last night and then had nightmares every hour or so that I’m having that weird thing where […]
