It’s Great to be Eight!

Happy birthday, Jake! You're an awesome kid. … [Continue reading]

13 Month Old Baby Broke The Looking Glass

Anyone superstitious out there? I am not, generally speaking, except for believing strongly in karma and the zodiac. Say what you will, all Leos I've ever met have been show-offs, and all Tauruses I've ever met (myself included) are stubborn as the … [Continue reading]

Snuggie Sex!

It's been a beautiful, unseasonably warm September, and I've been enjoying it thoroughly; it has managed to stave off the sinking feeling of doom that comes with the seemingly endless winter that Calgary generally has. I find winters to be difficult … [Continue reading]

FYI for teenaged girls, don’t date the Hall boys.

I'm really glad my ladies' holidays aren't coming up anytime soon, because my goodness I am an emotional girl this week; it would be pretty bad if I threw some hormones into the mix. Part of it, maybe, is the fact that my kids are now in the "big … [Continue reading]

I’ll be making another to-do list after this post.

As I sat down to write this, I realized that this is my 600th post! My gracious, I have had a lot to say. I've been writing this since 2008, when the boys were both in preschool and the first day of school looked like this: And now it looks like … [Continue reading]

Summer’s Almost Gone, Almost Gone

Here it is, the very last week of summer, and I'm trying to squeeze every moment out of it. I always feel kind of gloomy at the end of summer - I'm a summer-tastic kind of girl - but the gloominess is getting overridden by my excitement about … [Continue reading]

Born To Be Wild

Today a man with a full-on business-in-front-party-in-back mullet rode down my street on a unicycle. I wonder if it was an ironic mullet, or maybe mullets are the new look for young hipsters, or - and this is a distinct possibility - this man was … [Continue reading]