It's never feels good to be limping towards the finish line at the end of a year... but I've been thinking about how despite the loss of my mother-in-law just some weeks ago has us all still sad and aching, it is not exactly tragic. Everyone must go one day - we certainly don't get out of this … [Read more...]
Holiday Vignettes. AKA: Showing Your Balls.
I think I mentioned before how I'm not entirely in the mood for Christmas this year, and all the shenanigans that go with, but when you've got little kids, you still have to make an effort to make the holidays enjoyable in all the festive ways. When I finally got set to break out all the … [Read more...]
Being the Wino Has It’s Advantages
Okay, that title is a tad facetious - I'm not really a wino. But I'm working on it. I wish I DID order my wine by the crate! No, no... but the crates I have were simply procured from a pile set for the trash sometime last year. I had dreams of putting casters on the bottoms of them... or for storing … [Read more...]
Eyes Wide Open: Tiny Bits of Magic
After I got dressed yesterday, getting set to head downtown to get my Christmas-shopping sorted out, my good friend and neighbour-lady rang my doorbell. She'd been out for a jog earlier, and had lost her house key. It was the FIRST time she'd ever bothered to take it off her key ring, and she … [Read more...]
Making Christmas In Spite of Things
I've been mostly keeping to myself, riding the waves of sadness that have been rocking our house since Martin's mother passed away a few weeks ago... it's been in the forefront of my brain, of course, and I've actually not had a whole lot to say. The thing about grief is, it's a process. I reckon … [Read more...]
My Good People and The Abundance of Friendship
I have a bevy of excellent neighbourhood peeps. Since the less-than-warm temps of October, and with the suddenly-dark afternoons since turning the clocks back a few weeks ago, the leisurely summertime sit-downs on park benches with my peeps while we watch the kids play, sometimes with a cup of … [Read more...]
Being Invisible
There's a lot going on around our house these days... I feel like I'm constantly on the go for unusual errands lately, and I'm running an awful lot. It's okay though. My extra-long leather gloves, oversized sunglasses, jaunty handbag and gigantic earphones sitting on the table await me. One … [Read more...]
That Time I Picked Up an Old Lady at the Grocery Store.
I met this lady the other day. I was checking out at the grocery store, and Ava Scarlett was busying herself pressing buttons on the Coke machine close to the exit sign. I stuffed my receipt into my wallet, and watched as an elderly lady bent down to pat her on the head, looking around to see who … [Read more...]
Feeling It All
Yesterday my mother-in-law asked for some French toast. I was more than pleased to quickly beat an egg with some milk, and a dash of salt and vanilla... butter in the pan makes it puffy and golden. Anything she wants. Anything at all. I dropped a few fresh raspberries on top. Maple syrup in the … [Read more...]
Little Pitchers and The Art of Swearing.
On the long ride home from the cottage, we cued up the iPad on shuffle-play, and just let the tunes hit us. We have all kinds of music on it, and since we've never really cowed to the children's musical tastes, we're gleefully free of Itsy Bitsy Spider-type songs, and anything by The Wiggles. It's … [Read more...]
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