You know how, when you are looking forward to going to your very favourite restaurant for weeks, and you pore over the online menu and decide what you are going to order, in extreme detail, and you think about that amazing meal and you think about it and – after all you go out for […]
T = Valentine’s + Four
February 19, 2010 by 6 Comments
Since we were on! vacation! last week, the boys missed their class Valentine parties, and so came home yesterday bearing their “mailboxes” stuffed with cards and candies and miniature Play-Doh’s, causing me a little anxiety for only sending plain old Spiderman Valentines. Remember when there were no rules regarding the handing out of Valentines, and […]
New Year, New Me?
January 3, 2010 by 2 Comments
There’s nothing quite like a fresh start, is there? I think that’s why New Year’s resolutions are so tempting. A New Year – A New You. Each and every time I open my mailbox, it is full of flyers from various companies salivating over Resolution People and their Willingness to Spend Money on Fresh Starts: […]
Goodbye, decade
January 1, 2010 by 1 Comment
Ah, New Year’s. Sometimes New Year’s feels like a bit of a weird competition, what with the fancy parties, and the resolutions, and the staying up until midnight, which is a mighty challenge for me. I tend to react to New Year’s somewhat indifferently. Meh, it’s New Year’s. Tonight I plan on celebrating Newfoundland New […]
All is Calm
December 28, 2009 by 5 Comments
The tree and decorations are all taken down and boxed away. I am enjoying the feeling of opulence that obtaining extra living room space, formerly occupied by said tree and decorations, can bring. I am no longer performing gymnastic feats merely to close the drapes. Last night I curled up on the couch with a […]
…and Merry Christmas!
December 24, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Thank you so much for reading this blog. It means a lot to me! I hope you all have a lovely Christmas, whatever you are doing. I am crossing my fingers for a relatively healthy holiday, and I am also completely drunk with power as regards the opening or not opening of gifts. “Kids who […]
Happy Festivus!
December 23, 2009 by 3 Comments
This is not really a ranting type of blog. I’m not so much a ranting girl. But it’s Festivus! Grievances must be aired. I have a major grievance against people who send their contagious kids to school, or allow their contagious kids to be in confined public spaces with other non-sick children. Especially the week […]
