Yesterday I received a phone call from a woman from ASD-CARC. She introduced herself and told me that I had signed with them in 2005. I vaguely remember something about that. They are a research facility and are funded by several agencies and are supported by Queens University among other … [Read more...]
Moms Who Drink
This has been a hot topic lately both in the media and in my circle of friends. If you follow moms on twitter or facebook or read their blogs you too will see that jokes about drinking or prescription drug use are rampant. But are they really joking? The sad thing is that many are not.This may be a … [Read more...]
How to embarrass a child
Is it weird that I am slowly building up a toolkit of things that I can use to embarrass my daughter as she gets older? Because truth be told, this was for me, a big part of the appeal of having a child in the first place. Am I the only one holding on to really old, holey underwear, a … [Read more...]
Listen to the Wise Old Man
Yesterday I had lunch with my dad. We usually do this once a week or so since my mom died and my dad moved a few blocks away from us. My sisters live thousands of kilometres away so my dad and I spend a lot of time together. He is a fixture at my kids' sporting events, chatting with all of the … [Read more...]
Trying out Supperworks
Sometimes I'm really organised and we have lovely dinners, complete with salads and even dessert. Then there are those weeks, when someone's sick, or there are too many hockey/soccer games and it's a dinner disaster. Once in a while, cereal for dinner (or grilled cheese, toast with eggs, … [Read more...]
Home is Where I Left My Heart…
Shortly after I was first married, my husband and I moved from the GTA to Calgary. At the time it was a big and fun and exciting thing to do. We were close to the Rocky Mountains and we skied a lot. We enjoyed the smaller city that Calgary was at the time, and we found that our housing dollar went a … [Read more...]
borrowed words
These words are not mine. Over the past 6 years they have brought me to tears each time I read them. I thought Mother's Day would be an appropriate day to borrow the words from Maureen K. Higgins and share them with my fellow mothers of special needs children.To You, My SistersMany of … [Read more...]
Happies and Crappies
Let's start with the crappies so that we end on a postive note.CrappiesThe wind. It seems to ALWAYS be windy lately. Doesn't it??The rain. Not too too much of it. But just enough to make it into the crappies.The clouds. Why do clouds have to exist and make my sons life … [Read more...]
A Life of Extremes
With Cuyler - it's all or nothing.He hates something or he loves it.Example: He was obsessed with the Wiggles for a couple of years. Everything was Wiggles. Colours were no longer blue, red, yellow or purple. They were Anthony, Murray, Greg and Jeff.He would line up makers and … [Read more...]
deep pockets
We had dinner last night with three people who help make up our family in a way not studied in 1970's Home Economics courses. They are three as well; two girls and mom. A girls' house, a pink place, a hot house of hormones. 2 times per week we set the table with double the placemats for a … [Read more...]
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