“I’m back in business” Mark said the night before school started. You know how sometimes, just sometimes, you get a feeling about what your child will be when he grows up? I feel quite sure that Mark is going to be an engineer. If you know any engineers, or if you are an engineer yourself, […]
Adventures in Boyland
August 11, 2012 by 11 Comments
I’ve been reading the boys all the Little House books, in order, since they became interested in settlers and whatnot after reading Little House on the Prairie at school. Their favourite was On the Banks of Plum Creek, what with all the plagues and Pa getting lost in a blizzard at Christmas and Laura getting a […]
Olympic Fever, sort of
July 28, 2012 by 5 Comments
One of the things I love most about blogging is how much I learn. My mind is expanding. I mean, really, who knew about modesty socks or fake cigarettes? WHO KNEW? I am enlightened. I am also confused because a very androgynous cashier called me “sir” today. I’m not sure why. I don’t think I […]
I’m not dumb but I can’t understand how he lifts me in the air just by raising his hand
July 14, 2012 by 7 Comments
It has CONTINUED to be summer around here, which is leading me to wonder where I am and to also SEIZE THE DAY, so there has been lots of swimming and outdoor activity around the Boyhouse. There has also been lots of discussions about Star Wars. My kids talk about Star Wars all the time. […]
Fruit Salad, Yummy Yummy.
July 10, 2012 by 9 Comments
We’ve been experiencing SUMMER here in YYC. The days have been sunny, and warm – hot even. Of course, this is relative. The highest temperature of the week is 30 degrees Celsius, which is 86 degrees Fahrenheit, which – when compared with my friends down in Virginia, where the tarmac at an airport melted in […]
It’s Coming From Inside The House!
June 25, 2012 by 7 Comments
How was your weekend? Normally my weekends are fairly uneventful, but this weekend was the exception to the rule. A while back, the CBC was having a fundraiser for the Calgary Food Bank, and my girlfriends and I managed to purchase an evening with local celebrity and food goddess extraordinaire Julie van Rosendaal, from Dinner […]
I think I’m a Winter
June 13, 2012 by 12 Comments
I’m starting to talk like our contractors. My husband asked me, casually, what the tile guys were going to do with the cement shower base and cinderblock bench. “They’re gonna beef it up real good” was what I actually told him. Because I now know ALL when it comes to pouring the cement for a […]
