So I’ve been blue, due to a number of factors, the most pressing being disappointment over not being offered a writing contract that I had my heart set on. I’ve been in mourning about it, wallowing and eating all manner of bad things, and reading my most favourite comfort book, Diary of a Provincial Lady. […]
T minus 7
August 26, 2011 by
My husband has been away on a golf trip and yesterday I did something I haven’t done since my single-girl days: I had popcorn for dinner. I announced it to the kids that we were going to have pancakes and popcorn for dinner, and that announcement was met with silent, nervous smiles. “Do you mean, we’re […]
My Favourite Cup
June 24, 2011 by
The handle broke off of my favourite mug a couple of weeks ago. It was a tall, lidded, blue ceramic cup with flowers on it that I had received in a gift basket from my husband’s colleagues when Mark was born. I have used this mug every day since then, and now it is broken. […]
I-I-I-I’m Still Alive!
May 24, 2011 by
So here it is, May 23, and we are still here. I guess the rapture didn’t occur after all, or, if it did, I was seriously excluded. I wore my special Judgment Day panties for nothing? NOTHING? I spent the weekend celebrating the birth of Queen Victoria by way of a road trip to visit my in-laws, and […]
A New Kind of Groundhog Day!
May 16, 2011 by
Friday evening my husband came home late from his golf game to find me on the couch in my pajamas, halfway through both a bottle of wine and the pilot episode of NYPD Blue. “Hi sweetie,” I said happily, as if I hadn’t seen this episode many times before, “Sipowicz got shot! Oooh, look: You […]
Friday the 13th, and Privilege Problems
May 14, 2011 by
I just realized, now, that it is Friday the 13th! Maybe that explains things, and by things I mean my state of crossness and irritability, although I really think that my attitude is more likely attributed to my lack of sleep and excessive worry due to my son having pneumonia, rather than the date. I […]
Just This
May 9, 2011 by
On Friday Jake’s kindergarten class had a Mother’s Day Spa Day, in which all the moms brought in deck chairs and lounged in the darkened classroom to the sound of soothing spa music while their five year olds rubbed lotion into their feet, rubbed their shoulders, and brushed their hair. After untangling the brushes from […]
