I was feeling a bit cabin fevered yesterday. By noon it had been snowing for 24hrs and we had more snow than we knew what to do with. I went to work in the morning but decided to leave at noon, before I got really snowed in. The city plows do this neat trick of […]
Before Christmas, my son had a friend staying over for a few days. Well one night Alex went out to get some snacks from across the street. The kids all use the door in the fence at the back of the yard to get to the shops, because it’s quicker. When he got back he
My youngest is a “button pusher” in more ways then one. Now-a-days, he usually just pushes my buttons with arguments, as to why I should pay him more money for just “being.” When he was little, though, he had a penchant for pushing physical buttons – usually the wrong buttons – whenever he saw one.
I have written before about what we do in winter to survive. One of my “must haves” or “must dos” is to plant bulbs – the bigger the better. I always say that the bulbs get us through to Valentine’s Day and then we are very close to March with milder days above freezing. Spring
A calm exterior often masks a chaotic interior. Let me explain. We have rented for a short time, I hope, a storage facility nearby to help us clear out the house and reorganize our space. My eldest has just finished four years of Art college and we have run out of walls on which to
Yesterday our youngest turned 20. My husband said, “Now we have no teenagers in the house anymore.” I nearly cried. It’s the dichotomy of the human condition – you want them to grow and be successful, but you also want them to stay and keep the family together, as it were. Anyway, when the kids
This is a little story about an incident that happened years ago. For some reason it just popped into my mind the other day and for lack of another blog topic, I thought, why not retell this one? I was living, at the time, in an apartment in Port Credit and teaching at a high
A while ago, I had to buy a new cell phone and get it added to our family plan, which is in my husband’s name. Things went smoothly, although we had to extend the contract again. Every time you make a change, you end up extending your contract for another 3 years – urrgh! I
We are in maintenance mode. First we had plumbing work done on Christmas Day and now we have the roofers in. Actually we knew in advance that the roof was in trouble and we finally booked a company to come in and replace the shingles. Well, of course, it’s never just the shingles, is it?
