Well, another successful, slightly stressful Halloween. It’s just not that easy to get two kids ready for trick or treating who can’t dress themselves, put their shoes on, get into the car, get out of the car, etc. So thanks to my mom for the help getting them changed and dressed, and apologies to all [...]
Tomorrow is Halloween. I’ve never really cared that much about the holiday, the candy, the trying to fit your winter jacket under your costume because the first snow fall of the year inevitably happens the night before. But, as I was thinking about getting the kids’ costumes ready, I started thinking of all of the [...]
Tonight at supper Luke had this Dora the Explorer talking colour wheel thing. You press a button and it gives the name of the colour you just pressed in English and Spanish. And it NEVER TURNS OFF. There’s no on/off switch. Every time it brushes against something it starts up and won’t quit unless you don’t [...]
A few months ago I was talking to a nice old lady from church. Her husband is in his nineties and she is in her late eighties. She said that they didn’t get out too much anymore. But that was okay because they didn’t need much — just a few groceries.
After I got off the [...]
Marc and I have officially been married too long. Today, after eating our lunch together at the table, I was on the computer catching up on the usual blogs. Marc came and sat down close to me, snuggled in and said “I love you”. And my response after about 5 seconds of ignoring him was “hi”. Not “oh, [...]
Each year as the cold weather encroaches on those nice warm fall days, I start to wear my favourite wool socks. Purchased while in university (when I was quite free with the money), I have four pairs of very thick, very cozy wool socks from Eddie Bauer costing $8.00 a piece (back in 1997). I have them [...]
Had a crappy, gloomy day today. Seems like I’ve been having a lot of those lately. And this adds guilt to the gloom because there’s nothing really wrong or bad in my life right now. In fact things are really great. I’ve just been working through a lot of ”ideals” in my personal and spiritual life.
Last [...]
ANNOUNCING THE NEWEST CITIZEN OF BLOGDOM:
Madeline Jayne
For a two year old’s perspective on life, politics, world news and most certainly poop, check out my beautiful little daughter’s site, set up by yours truly and to be hosted by me and the old man. It will be all from her mouth, through our hands, to the [...]
Raven’s asking for more funny kids posts. Right now I don’t feel like I have it in me. I was pretty sick and tired of the kids by the time they went down for their naps after lunch today. Madeline pulled her usual “it’s not late! we can’t go to sleep!” bit, followed by “But [...]
… you’re flushing the toilet after you’ve been on it yourself and your 2 year old says, “The pee pee’s going down. Good girl!!!”