It’s a beautiful autumn day here in YYC! Did you just cry a little? Yeah, me too. Less than two weeks ago, this was the scene: Jake, climbing our tree, wearing shorts. Not shown in this photograph is the total heart attack I was having and trying to conceal. “Wow, honey, you’re a really great climber!” […]
Well, hello there, stranger!
August 7, 2012 by 6 Comments
How have you been? I’ve been away. I just spent a week with my in-laws, and I ONLY have nice things to say. We had fabulous weather, we had lots of fun, and I discovered something about myself: I am naturally a rigid and rule-oriented person (this is not part of my self-discovery; I knew that already) but with […]
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 […]
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 […]
For Cinco de Mayo, I’m building a snowman
May 5, 2012 by 16 Comments
Festively enough for the fifth of May, huge, fluffy snowflakes are falling right now. It’s kind of depressing. The boys were slated to start a junior golf program this morning, but since there is a minor blizzard going on, we are all at home in our jammies. Speaking of sports, because of all the rain […]
Warning: Shinpads Will Not Prevent Injury From Getting Run Over By A Wayward Car On The Soccer Field
April 25, 2012 by 4 Comments
The past few days have been unseasonably warm, record-breaking warm, and yet yesterday at 5:30 pm – one hour before the first soccer practice of the season – the sky grew black and the rain started to pour. It was, as always, a festive start to the season. The practice was held in the rain, […]
Birthday and Earth Day and Painting the Basement
April 23, 2012 by 5 Comments
Today is voting day in Alberta and, as luck would have it, my polling station was located at my kids’ school, making it easy to slip in after drop off and vote. You know you are at the polling station early when you beat the sea of seniors flooding in. How was your weekend? Mine […]
