Yesterday on the “news” – Breakfast Television – I saw the following headline: Pediatricians say parents turn a blind eye to childhood obesity. I know that it is a serious and sad issue, but I rarely think about childhood obesity, as I have the opposite problem; my kids are very, very skinny. They are countable-ribs, […]
I have a bad case of the Fridays!
September 17, 2010 by 4 Comments
Which is to say I’m kind of tired. It has been a long and disjointed week, ending with the kids out of school today due to parent/teacher interviews. My husband was out of town for a couple of days, which always makes for a long, disjointed week. When he told me he was going out […]
NOT crazy. Just hormonally deranged.
September 2, 2010 by 6 Comments
The first day of school went great, so I will not bore you with the details. Instead, allow me to tell you what happened on the last day of summer vacation. It was cold and rainy. I thought a fun activity would be to print out invitations for Jake’s birthday and then have the kids […]
What are they going to arrest me for, being awesome?
August 26, 2010 by 6 Comments
Because I’m always striving to be a fun – yet educational – mother, I decided to step up the science experiments and make a rocket out of vinegar, baking soda, and a film canister. I will admit I wasn’t totally prepared for the kind of rocketing explosion that followed and ended with the film canister […]
Garmins don’t work if you don’t use them.
August 14, 2010 by 4 Comments
“I think fall is coming!” Jake said happily, looking at the orange leaves on the grass below our Mayday tree. It is weird that two weeks ago we were doing this: And now I’m wearing a sweater. August in Calgary. My thoughts, since we returned from vacation, have been turning to back to school, specifically […]
DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, or What I Did On My Summer Vacations
July 5, 2010 by 7 Comments
So the other shoe dropped. The weather suddenly turned, the sky grey and the wind chilly, and I felt like perhaps this was my own doing; like I had expressed passionate emotions to an indifferent date; I was like “Let’s spend our lives together, I love you, baby” and the weather really just wanted to […]
Happy (almost) Birthday Canada!
July 1, 2010 by 5 Comments
Since in our house, birthdays must always be marked by cake, I am in the process of making an angel food cake with strawberry cream filling, the colours a nod to our lovely, lovely flag. My mother-in-law made this particular cake for me eleven years ago, and it instantly became my favourite dessert. All other […]
