Family Life & Kids
Un-Thanksgiving
November 28, 2008
We've celebrated a lot in the past month. Canadian Thanksgiving with Damien's family in October, a visit with my parents the beginning of November, a festive harvest meal with turkey and all the trimmings at the college last week, the Lots to Gardens supper last Friday and Brienne's princess fairy ...
Happy Birthday Brienne
November 25, 2008
Today is my youngest child's 6th birthday. Dear Brienne, Don't ever lose the fire in your belly and the mischief in your eye. You are one tenacious girl and when someone, usually me, is on the receiving end of that determination you can be somewhat... challenging. But boy oh boy, ...
celebrate, watch movies and party
November 23, 2008
It's a blustery, bitter November weekend but we're taking care of that with some good old fashioned fun. Friday night our family attended and volunteered at a fundraising celebration of local food, art and music. This harvest supper of seaonsal, locally grown food (you'd be amazed at how many ways ...
Sharing the Season
November 21, 2008
Creating the perfect Christmas and holiday season used to be a fall obsession of mine. I would print schedules (bake this weekend, shop these weekends, etc...), collect recipes, scour the local paper for activities & craft fairs, budget and plan gifts for months. Whatever happened? First we moved far away ...
Fall happened instead
November 8, 2008
This week I had planned to wash the porch windows. They've been dirty for a year but the gray sky and brown naked trees just seem to accentuate the smears, dust and finger prints. I was also supposed to do on-line banking, pay utility bills and such. And I hoped ...
Family, Nature and Poetry
November 4, 2008
My parents left this morning after a 3 day visit at our house. They came mostly so that my dad could help us install new vinyl replacement windows in our living room and learning room (used to be a formal dining room). The possibility now exists that I won't totally ...
