This afternoon Marc and I took advantage of having my parents in the same city and we did some errands. We went to our optometrists and looked at new frames. (Can you imagine how impossible it would be to keep three young kids under control while both parents looked for and purchased new frames?!) I’ve [...]
I’ve been mulling over how to write my annual “I can’t stand my body” post for the last few days. It started on Christmas Eve (when all of the good Christmas eating started) when I told Marc, “I hate my body. Pass the chips and dip.” Then the next day I gave Marc my bi-annual [...]
Christmas Eve. The one day of the year where I try to go overboard on the eye make-up, going for the “smokey eye”, and you still can hardly tell I’m wearing eye make-up. We’ve had our supper (taking major precautions so the kids would not spill spaghetti on their Christmas clothes– unfortunately we forgot about [...]
We’re back in Prince Albert for Christmas. Because it’s our first Christmas with both Granny and Grandpa gone, I worked on putting some home videos onto dvd to bring back here — Christmas 2007 (our last with Granny) and Christmas 2008 (our last with Grandpa). I filled the dvd with the months around those Christmases. (I’m [...]
All day I pray to be a womb for God.
On the way through the early blue light to the dentist, I whisper it to Father, “A womb, Lord. Come dwell in me.”
When we come home from the appointment to crusty bowls still on the table and the entrails of scarves and mittens and boots flung [...]
I have four minutes to write this post so it gets published on Madeline’s birthday…
Today Madeline turned seven years old. That is crazy! Soon it will be ten and then sixteen and then she’ll be moved out. This year was definitely the year for “growing up” presents. From us she got two books she’d really [...]
One of things I enjoy about parenting is getting to make up stories for the kids. This morning while Luke and Olivia were in the bath I told them (at Luke’s request) a story about a snowflake. It went something like this:
Once there was a snowflake. It was a beautiful snowflake and it wasn’t like [...]
(You can read the very lengthy but quite amusing post, or you can just skip down to the video at the end…)
Today we spent almost 12 hours in Winnipeg with the kids. We left the house just after 9am this morning and got home at 8:30pm. We didn’t know if we’d make it the whole [...]
Today a bunch of Madeline’s new friends from her school in Niverville came to the campus to celebrate her seventh birthday (which is actually on the 15th). We were lucky enough to be able to use a room on campus so we didn’t have to cram a dozen kids into our trailer for the festivities.
Madeline [...]
Today was a much better day, just so you know. I’ve mostly been getting things ready for Madeline’s birthday party tomorrow. It’s a pirate theme. And I think it should be lots of fun. Don’t know how many kids we’re going to get, but I know at least half a dozen kids will be there [...]