I spent a little over three weeks in Portugal last summer and quite a bit of time visiting its beautiful beaches. I couldn’t help but notice how many women were breastfeeding babies of all ages. I have to admit that I’ve never witnessed so much extended breastfeeding as I did … [Read more...]
BAM!
I have been busier with work in the past two weeks than I have ever been in my life. It's been wild, and hard, but good and I was coping alright until I found a lump on my middle daughter's neck the size of a half-golfball. That will make the world stand still for you. I've taken her in to … [Read more...]
Love you more
Yes, I love both my boys equally. Yes, I appreciate their uniqueness, the different way they process information and the different way the express themselves emotionally. Yes, I recognize that their ages are reflective of their current attitudes towards authority. I get all that but right now, … [Read more...]
If Only…
We got the dreaded letter from the school this week, the one that warns about a child in my daughter's classroom having been hit with a case of headlice. Gah. I wish that the above were mandatory for kids: vintage swim caps! Wear them all day long to keep the lice away! So Spring … [Read more...]
Thank You Kaitlin Hrudey
There has been a lot of media coverage lately of the youth mental health crisis, which is particularly bad here in Calgary. And it's about damn time. I've known about this crisis for a long time now, because I've been part of it. And it's getting worse, not better.My oldest daughter has anxiety. And … [Read more...]
Lazy parenting
Parenting is challenging at the best of times, knowing if the decisions you are making are pointing your children in the right direction is chock full of pressure. I hope I am doing an ok job, but I also know I can be wishy washy at times, letting sympathy cloud my follow through on discipline or … [Read more...]
Shadiness: The Christmas Babies
Around the holidays when my mother came to visit, we got busy making a little bed for the dolls Ava Scarlett was to receive for Christmas. My mother gave her one doll, and Santa brought her the other. I ordered a bunch of stuff online and had it all shipped directly to the cottage, where we … [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...]
Here we go again
I've written before about my total aversion to loose teeth. I have three children. There is no way I was going to avoid dealing with loose teeth. I knew that I was going to go through it all over again with Eva. It has started. A few weeks ago Sean darted upstairs to find out why Eva was … [Read more...]
Minecraft Detente
Not that long ago, I wrote about my children's obsession with the online sandbox game, Minecraft. At the time, I was concerned abut two things mainly: their addiction to playing it ALL. THE. TIME. and the behaviour of the other people on the multi-player servers.In the months that have ensued, we … [Read more...]
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