For those of you great friends and readers who have been following my "This Life" blog since the beginning may remember This List from my New Year's Eve entry: Twenty Things I want to Do in 2008 Adopt a baby Adopt a baby Adopt a baby...OK, so this is my primary focus!!! Run the San Diego … [Read more...]
Career Girl’s Guide to Becoming a STEPMOM
At the moment, I suck as a mother, a step-mother, a wife and a woman in general. I have just come home, at 9:30, after a very long day at work to bark at a 17 year old step-daughter who came home at the same time as me even though my last communication with her was that she would be home at 6:30. Of … [Read more...]
A Room of One’s Own
It is official. I have bitten off more than I can chew. I have always had a tendency to over-subscribe to activities, projects, groups, clubs. I signed up for everything and then cried at the kitchen table while my mom reheated my tuna casserole because I couldn't do it all.I feel … [Read more...]
Things Go Flying
Hey! Check this out! This Life is taking on a new focus and I am becoming the Literary Mom for urbanmoms.ca. I am so honoured and psyched to combine the three things that make my life worth living...my family, reading and writing...into one happening spot. For my inaugural blog on the new … [Read more...]
Back to School???
For most of the province, March Break comes to a thudding end tonight. Moms are busy humming and singing to themselves with the thought of the structure and activity that will roll back into the lives of their children tomorrow morning. For those of us who work at, or have children who attend the … [Read more...]
Do You Need a Degree to Register for Kindergarten?
Who knew how difficult this would be? The first conundrum is trying to decide where The Gaffer will go to kindergarten next year. There's a great public school almost directly across the road. They have a daycare. But the daycare opens after I have to be at work. And they do not have part-time rates … [Read more...]
A Night in the Life of a Step-mom
The only thing that makes this night any different than countless others is that it is relatively quiet in our home. There is a lot of personality under this roof when we are all home and at times it makes for some interesting drama. Tonight, however, I am home with Sirtalksalot (12), Mlle … [Read more...]
The Next Thing on My List
I have just finished reading The Next Thing on My List by Jill Smolinski which has forced me into a position I had fully sworn off in the last couple of years: Resolutions!!! Smolinski's novel is absolute chicklit with the heroine, June Parker, discovering herself while finishing a list for a … [Read more...]
Christmas Traditions II – The Christmas Letter
Mostly, I am impressed with people who send Christmas letters because it means that they were prepared and organized enough to do so. I also enjoy catching up on the comings and goings of people I haven't seen all year. But like most honest moms, I do find the letter a bit intimidating. Why … [Read more...]
Kids and Marriage
Does your relationship with your kids affect your marriage? I know that in the early years there is the whole sleep deprivation and division of chores thing, but what about when they get older. We have a 17 year old, 14 year old, 12 year old and 3 year old in our house and things can get quite … [Read more...]