Happy Monday/ Full Moon Day, everyone! We are just coming off the high of a long weekend – it was a PD day on Friday, which was joyfully spent painting clay creations and playing video games with friends. Thursday night was the much-anticipated Halloween Dance and it was everything everyone had ever dreamed of, and […]
Domination by cookie baking
October 25, 2012 by 2 Comments
The Boyhouse is vibrating with excitement today. It’s the Halloween Family Dance and I am just going to say that I feel badly for the teachers today. They are going to be dealing with some bouncy kids. Also, my own kids snuck cookies before school this morning, so they may be riding the sugar train. […]
Do you know how hard it is to find a non-slutty pirate costume?
October 17, 2012 by 7 Comments
It’s only eight days until the second-most-anticipated event in my household, second only to Christmas, and that is the school’s annual Family Halloween Dance. It is, without a doubt, the social event of the season, and it is over by 8:30 pm, which is to say that it is my kind of party. My husband […]
SANTA’S COMING (in less than three months)
September 26, 2012 by 12 Comments
Yesterday I kept hearing people say “It’s only three months until Christmas!” which got me to feeling like this: SANTA’S COMING! Of course, in three months from today I will be either a) taking down the tree and packing up the decorations because that is ENOUGH Christmas, or b) wishing I was taking down the […]
Lucky Number Seven
September 16, 2012 by 7 Comments
It was Jake’s seventh birthday yesterday! For the past week I’ve been reminiscing about my pregnancy and his birth: how I craved and ate a jar of Cheez Whiz a week, disturbingly enough; how I became a completely crazed hormonal being the day before going into labour, alternating between being annoyed at everyone in the […]
Party like it’s 1979
September 9, 2012 by 6 Comments
It is, suddenly, fall. My Manitoba maple tree has yellowed overnight, it seems, football has taken over Sundays, and the mornings are very crisp and chilly. Although I cheerfully discuss with the children all the wonderful things to look forward to in every season, during the fall I very much mourn the end of summer. […]
Cupcakes, shopping, and Junior Mints
September 7, 2012 by 9 Comments
I am pleased to report the happy news that there have been zero barfing incidents since the first day of school. Although, writing that, I just broke out into a cold sweat thinking that I just jinxed everything and now my children will be up all night barfing. Cue the Stevie Wonder riffs.I really, really […]
