Lately Mark has been quite preoccupied with the idea of growing up, and the logistics about how things work in the world. He wants to know how, exactly, does one buy a car, for example. How does one choose an apartment and how does one pay for an apartment? Do apartments come with furniture or does […]
Mildly Annoying Things
March 5, 2013 by 6 Comments
You know when it’s the week leading up to your ladies’ holiday, and you feel all raw and emotional and sad things are unbearably sad and mildly irritating things are making you ragey and you’re reading the Diary of a Wimpy Kid with your children and you didn’t realize how very mean spirited and awful […]
A Farewell to Foggy
August 23, 2012 by 18 Comments
The boys and I had been planning a trip to the zoo today, with my mom, for the past week. It would be our last zoo trip of the summer, and so Jake was especially excited to see his favourite animal, Foggy the hippo. When I say “favourite animal”, I mean that Jake felt that […]
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 […]
For Cinco de Mayo, I’m building a snowman
May 5, 2012 by 16 Comments
Festively enough for the fifth of May, huge, fluffy snowflakes are falling right now. It’s kind of depressing. The boys were slated to start a junior golf program this morning, but since there is a minor blizzard going on, we are all at home in our jammies. Speaking of sports, because of all the rain […]
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 […]
It’s Festivus Eve! Grievance time!
December 22, 2011 by 11 Comments
All this Christmas sentiment is getting to me, I thought. Two nights ago, I became increasingly irritable throughout the evening; everything was getting under my skin. My husband was, I thought, an unbearable asshole and the kids were insane, obnoxious, and loud. I crabbed around the house then said, at 7:45, that I was going to […]
