Where, you may be wondering, have I been? Or perhaps you were not wondering that at all. In any case, I’m just back from a sunny vacation during which the following momentous events occurred: Jake went from a reluctant, life-jacket wearing child to one who jumped into the pool and swam across it without the […]
"That Time of the Month" Emotional Breakdown, and Cougars
July 25, 2011 by 8 Comments
I saw Denzel Washington on a Letterman rerun, and he was talking about the difference between a house and a home, and how when your children move out it ceases to become a home and just becomes a house and at that point I teared up thinking of my empty nest that is coming in thirteen years or […]
Random Complaints from a Deposed Princess
July 20, 2011 by 5 Comments
I always knew this day would come, and here it is. My family doctor is retiring, and for those of you who do not live in Canada, let me tell you that finding a family doctor – ANY family doctor, let alone a good family doctor – is a big problem. My doctor has been […]
My Favourite Cup
June 24, 2011 by 11 Comments
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. […]
We’re all going to die! But hopefully not at the zoo.
June 15, 2011 by 9 Comments
The other day, there was a study that reported that watching over two hours of television per day increased one’s risk of death. I hate to get all caught up in the details, but the risk of death is 100%. I’m going to just go ahead and assume that the study meant premature death. Speaking […]
The Wonder Pets Save the Clematis
June 9, 2011 by 4 Comments
June is such a busy and frantic month, and it seems like everyone is off their game just the teeniest bit. Or is that just my house? Hoo boy, the number of ridiculous arguments that have been going on around here is epic. Epic, I tell you. The children have been disagreeing about everything from, unseasonably enough, the appropriate way to […]
It just doesn’t add up.
June 6, 2011 by 11 Comments
I seem to have caught the boys’ cold, it is no one’s favourite time of the month, and the sky is dark grey and it’s chilly and rainy. It’s like a trifecta of mildly depressing things. Also mildly depressing is that I am repeating behaviours that I repeat every single June: I listen to the […]
