Wow, was I just on vacation? I have that weird, not-unfamiliar feeling that I was in a completely alternate universe many months ago, although we’ve been home for only a few days. It’s funny how one day a person can spend hours in a complete state of relaxation, eating sublime food, walking on a beach, […]
Conversation at the Breakfast Table
October 20, 2010 by
Jake: Is today the day that Grandma is coming for a sleepover? Me: No, that’s tomorrow. Both boys, in unison: Awwwwww! Me: Remember, Mom and Dad are going on Thursday, we’ll be gone all day Friday, then we are coming back on Saturday. Mark: Can you come back on Sunday instead? So apparently they are […]
Crazy, I’m crazy for feeling this way…
October 19, 2010 by
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 […]
