Neighbours and Keys

Feeling really sheepish, I knocked on the door of our next door neighbours. It was almost 9pm, an hour that I’d really not consider doing this ordinarily. But this was just one of those days. This morning I finally called BCAA (for you Americans, think AAA I think it’s called?) to come and tow my [...]

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Similarities

It had been a very long and exhausting day. We started with kickboxing very early, then treat bag shopping, then swimming lesson. Leif and Kate started a little later, getting Kate off to gymnastics.  Back home, there was snowman making fun, and a snowball fight, then lunch. Off to Cameron’s birthday party! You can imagine [...]

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Secret Weapon

This year we haven’t gone to see Leif play hockey much. His games have been at awkward times, or we’ve had something else to do, or … I don’t know. Little things have just added up to get in the way, I guess. This weekend the kids were told to bring something to play with [...]

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Veterinarian Dinner?

How come veterinarians don’t eat meat? Cameron’s still having troubles listening to the middles of long words apparently. I’d just told him that when he grows up he can be a vegetarian if he wishes, I’ll even help him, but for now, he’s got to eat meat if it’s served for dinner. We were sitting [...]

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So Many Things

Not having a working car is driving me nuts. What happened to me? How did I become so car dependent? Okay okay, I’m not exactly in a convenient location. I mean, I am, where we live is, but the trouble is that school drop-off is at one end of the city, and my work is [...]

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