My in-laws were here for a visit this weekend, and they brought with them fresh-picked apples and Concord grapes, and for someone like me who lives in a place in which fresh, local fruit is limited to crabapples and Saskatoon berries, this gift was most gratefully received. I’m mowing through the produce at an unbelievable […]
Finally Scaredy Squirrel decides that nothing horrible is happening in the unknown today.
October 3, 2010 by
My neighbourhood is, for some reason, a squirrel graveyard these days. I take my dog for a walk and there are squirrel carcasses in varying stages of decomposition everywhere. It is quite disconcerting. Also disconcerting is the fact that dead squirrels are to my dog what giant bags of potato chips are to me: not […]
My Dog Is Fat
September 28, 2010 by
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
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
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
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
“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 […]
