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...]
You’ve Only Failed if You Fail to Try…
...says the legend of Princess Oochigeas..."A brave spirit makes all things possible." I have had the extraordinary privilege in my life to spend substantial time with children who live this everyday. CAMP OOCHIGEAS, is a camp just outside of the town of Rosseau, in Muskoka, Ontario … [Read more...]
PDA
True Confessions time - thank God Mr. Husband never reads this - I have been known, in my impetuous youth to engage in some major PDA. Necking on the Dance floor? Check Necking while dancing on a table? Check Neck at a York U track meet? Check Necking through an entire concert at Maple Leaf … [Read more...]
A Humbling Experience
I had an absolutley awful week at work, on which I cannot elaborate any further at this point but thought I should throw it out there so you can truly get a feel for the cloud of dejection and misery hanging around me Saturday morning. Mr. Husband has gone to Utah...skiing...with his … [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...]
Holiday Traditions – III
I hope it's OK to write about Christmas traditions as we make the last left over turkey sandwich and put the festive placemats away for another year. This is the first 1/2 hour that I have had to myself since the 24th of December where I didn't have to cook or clean or prepare to cook or clean and … [Read more...]
Burning the Candle at Both Ends
My mother's favourite phrase when I was a teen was, "Stop burning the candle at both ends." Ironically, I had no idea what she was talking about. Literally...I did not know what the idiom meant. Now, as a mature adult, not only am I fully aware of the concept of burning the candle at … [Read more...]
My Cup Runneth Over
I actually didn't know it was Grey Cup weekend, until I found myself in the midst of the festivities on Saturday, but I did have a fairly cup worthy weekend of my own. My last post was about our "Enchanted" Friday night. Saturday we had parent/teacher interviews for the Gaffer and found … [Read more...]
Just when you think she’s all grown up…
Actually, after 20 years of working with teenagers, I rarely think they are all grown up, but they do. Some of them think that at 12, like my buddy Sirtalksalot, but this post his about his big sister. Cupcake turns 17 on Tuesday, she has a part-time job, a full time, long term boyfriend, is in her … [Read more...]
Catholic Guilt
There is a great line in " The Commitments"(which you should see if you haven't) where a poor Irish white guy is trying to channel the greats of soul for his saxophone and he wanders around Dublin chanting, "I'm black and I'm proud." I have days where I wander … [Read more...]