It’s hard to imagine that I’ve sent this girl off to school four Septembers now (five, if you include preschool)! She’s already doing the math on how many years until she’s in middle school. And when I think of how it feels like yesterday that Marc and I were married, and when I think that [...]
I watched Mona Lisa Smile last night. I’d seen it once before, but didn’t remember much of it. One scene in particular stuck out to me. This one right here (the first two minutes):
Now, I don’t normally talk about things that may be deemed controversial on here (or maybe I do and just don’t know [...]
I’ve been thinking about my grandparents again lately. It seemed like the two summers preceding the one we are in now were almost identical: our family away on summer vacation, getting home and finding out the news that a grandparent is dying, funeral a week later.
We got home from our summer holiday on July 25, [...]
Marc made a comment the other day about whether there’s “something in our house” because as soon as we get home (from vacation, etc) we immediately go back to the cranky, messy, disorganized people we don’t want to be. I said that it’s not the house. I think it’s that when you’re on vacation you [...]
I am wiped out today. Part of that is from that little impromptu run I did last night. I stretched and stretched after I got home, but within a half an hour that part of my back that hurt so much when I tried the treadmill at the gym in September was hurting terribly. I [...]
Here I am, laying on the bed in the guest room at my cousin’s house in Calgary. It’s Sunday night. I know that because I vaguely remember going to church this morning. This is the third guest bed I’ve slept in since Thursday night. This is also the third wifi signal I’ve had to figure [...]
Well, summer is almost here. Sure it seems like it rains every day and you can never trust the forecast, but we did make it to the beach one evening earlier this week. And with summer comes summer apparel. This year it also means Marc’s and my tenth anniversary trip to England, which I had [...]
Today I had the urge to put on the video from when my folks and I went to the Stamps Baxter School of Music back in 1998. When Marc saw the video and saw me up there conducting he made some comment about that not being the person he married. It probably was the person [...]
This was Olivia and I at lunch today. She came inside before the other kids and was really hungry, so we snuggled up on the couch and she ate while I read to her from the book I’m currently reading: Julia Child’s “My Life in France”. I’m really enjoying it. (Olivia’s enjoying it too. I [...]
Started the morning planting the impatiens in the flower bed I discovered the other day. “Discovered” because it was overgrown with moss and grass, but there was actually an edging in the ground and some pretty decent soil underneath. Took some pictures of the final result that I’ll put up in another post. The pictures [...]