I enjoy Facebook for many reasons, but those reasons do not include certain pictures that get posted with political or inflammatory messages on them and pictures that are prefaced with “Share If You…” Share if you love your mom! Share if you love your kids! Share if you have a dog! Share if you hate cancer! […]
Spring Break! Put your (paint covered) hands up!
March 26, 2013 by 4 Comments
It’s only, technically, day two of Spring Break and it is the Most Exciting Spring Break Ever. Yesterday I looked out the window to see a Canada Post truck parked in the middle of our road and a delivery man struggling up our sidewalk with a giant box addressed to me. What is it, you may […]
The toll of shopping at Costco
March 15, 2013 by 11 Comments
Congratulations to Maggie, for winning the random draw! I picked up the prize yesterday on my trip to Costco. Can you spot it in my minivan? No, silly, it’s NOT the case of tetra pak almond milk. Nor is it the giant family size package of Snapea Crisps – those are ALL for me, family size […]
Lego, Eyelashes, and an IMPORTANT QUESTION
March 13, 2013 by 15 Comments
This morning Jake was playing with his Star Wars Lego when I heard a frustrated yell. The back window had fallen out of his Palpatine’s Arrest set, and when he tried to fix it, a couple of other pieces came off. There was no time to figure things out before school, and so I decided […]
Don’t masquerade with the guy in shades.
March 8, 2013 by 10 Comments
This morning I was driving to the yoga shala, and the radio was playing Sunglasses at Night. Boy in the Box was one of my favourite albums back in 1985, and so I turned it up and sang along. I pulled into a parking stall, still singing. You’ve gone to bed with a guy in […]
Nicole’s Favourite Things, Aloha Edition
March 1, 2013 by 15 Comments
The book fair is done! All loose ends are tied up; everything is finished until next November, when I will be relating my book fair sob stories once again. For those of you who have asked WHY I do this to myself, over and over like one of those fifty-shades types of girls, well, I […]
February and Friday Happiness
February 1, 2013 by 8 Comments
It’s the first day of February! January is over, for those of you who had a case of the January blues. And here in Calgary, the weather today is unseasonably warm, the snow is melting, cars are filthy. This warmth is in sharp contrast to earlier in the week, when it was minus 37 with […]
