My husband went back to work yesterday after a two week vacation and so it’s been just the three of us, getting back into our regular summer routine. There are, I realized, only three and a half weeks left until school starts and I’m feeling a tad bit melancholy about it. I decided today we […]
Baby I’m-a Want You
August 5, 2011 by 6 Comments
“I figured out what I’m going to buy you,” my husband said as I walked in the door, holding a piece of paper in his hand. A present for me? Squee! It’s my tenth anniversary in seven months and there is a three stone ring coming my way; my husband is a far-ahead planner so […]
Oh, HAI.
August 4, 2011 by 7 Comments
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 […]
I can’t hear a word they’re saying, only the echos of my mind
July 22, 2011 by 9 Comments
I am currently wondering if it is possible to be talked to death. Or talked into submission. In any case, I think my children are trying to break some sort of record, a talking record. The biggest issue, as I see it, is that each’s child’s speech is a set in a Venn diagram, but […]
Yee-haw
July 14, 2011 by 9 Comments
The rain that has been coming down since Monday has stopped, and, in the manner of mothers everywhere, I have just sighed with relief and shooed my children outside. The noise level has been unbelievable around here. We played Go Fish and the sounds emanating from my children were ear-shattering. Mark dislikes “winning” games, and […]
Odds and Ends and a Royal Zoo Trip
July 11, 2011 by 7 Comments
It has been a busy few days in the Boy House. Last Thursday I found myself at the hair therapist’s without a book, and so I picked up People magazine to learn all about Bachelor Brad’s breakup with Emily. Here’s the reason they broke up: Emily became jealous after watching the actual broadcast of The […]
Bond. James Bond.
July 4, 2011 by 7 Comments
Mark, seeing a commercial on a US television station, asked me what “Independence Day” means. I was tired and did not feel up for a historical discussion, so I simply said that it was like Canada Day, but for the United States. Later I felt that this lazy and somewhat inaccurate explanation would probably be […]
