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. […]
Where will we be when the summer’s gone?
August 29, 2011 by
Have I mentioned that it has been – wait for it – unseasonably hot around here? Honestly, it’s beautiful, and every day I have a sneaking feeling that I have been transported to a different city without my knowledge. Today it was – wait for it – thirty degrees Celcius which is both highly abnormal […]
The magic is GONE
August 23, 2011 by
I realize it was only a few short days ago when I was waxing melancholic about the end of summer, and how much I was going to miss the boys, and while that is still true in theory, the reality is that suddenly the children seem ready to go back to school. Suddenly I am […]
Melancholy thoughts about back to school and the transformative power of a new pair of panties.
August 16, 2011 by
Two years ago, when Mark was starting kindergarten, I wrote this. One year ago, when Jake was starting kindergarten, I wrote this. I find the differences in the pieces to be very amusing – in the first one I’m all “Buy some new panties! Drink some wine!” while the second one is “My baby birds are […]
Moose versus Caribou: The Untold Story
August 13, 2011 by
Yesterday was what I will call a trying day. My choice of activity for the gloomy day was not great: I decided to take the boys to the mall to buy four – FOUR – birthday gifts, and while there we stopped by the pet store to look at the various rodents for sale. Much […]
Oh, HAI.
August 4, 2011 by
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
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 […]
