I tend to be a wordy girl, rather than a wordless one. But here are some of my favourite moments from last week’s chilly and rainy zoo trip. Jake with his favourite animal. Mark, there’s a stegasaurus behind you!

I’m doing a meme from Marilyn over at A Lot of Loves. Fun! I should probably warn you that I’m feeling PRETTY giddy and silly today because it’s sunny and beautiful and I spent the morning at a pool party! In Calgary! And it was warm! In Calgary! I feel like I won the Saturday […]

My husband and I were watching the G20 black-clad anarchist protesters on TV. When the footage showed someone setting a police car on fire and then jumping around on it, he turned to me and said “If one of our kids ever did something like that, I would blow all their education funds and inheritance. […]

The boys have been reminding me, in a very earnest way, to reduce, reuse, and recycle, in keeping with their various school-related Earth Day activities. I think we do a fairly decent job of that in our house: we recycle everything we can, we use steel water bottles and reusable shopping bags, we try to […]

I don’t know about you, but I am completely overwhelmed by the situation in Haiti. The images I have viewed are so incredibly unbelievable to me – people using their hands to pull bodies out of concrete rubble because of the total lack of heavy machinery, blocked roads, looted food supplies. Not to mention the […]

https://girlinaboyhouse.com/2010/01/490/

I just received some tragic news about a neighbourhood family. Please send thoughts and prayers their way. I am going to hug my kids and vow to be grateful for everything I have.

https://girlinaboyhouse.com/2009/11/513/

Mark ran in his very first Terry Fox run yesterday. It was such a gorgeous sunny day and it was so inspiring to see the kids bringing in Toonies for Terry, running their hearts out, proudly collecting their hand stamps for each lap completed. Privately I looked at the size of the field and wondered […]