Last weekend Abigail and I attended the first birthday of a friend’s daughter. We had a lovely time with friends celebrating an adorable little girl’s all-important first birthday (although I’m sad we left before the cupcakes because Abigail needed a nap in the worst way. I didn’t know there would be cupcakes!). The party was held [...]
The last few mornings in a row, while I’ve been cleaning snow off the car so I could leave for work, my next-door neighbour has also been out in the driveway hollering at his kids to get in the car because they were going to be late. And then, after screeching out of the driveway and [...]
Because I don’t think you want to hear about how we’ve started on the scary road to soother elimination for Abigail (or do you?), I give you this instead. When I moved back to Ottawa after living in London (the London in Ontario, not the good one) for a couple of years at the start [...]
Originally I was going to write an amusing little tribute to my daughter’s fast-growing vocabulary, but then I realized that it’s November 17th. In the United States November is the March of Dimes’ Prematurity Awareness Month, and bloggers all over the place are posting pieces today in honour of the “Fight for Preemies.” You can’t chuck a stick on [...]
Recently a friend posted pictures online from about a decade ago, among which were pictures of a trip a group of us took to a friend’s cottage. This friend’s cottage was a semi-frequent site of cottage parties during my high school years and early twenties, a place to swim, sun, drink, play cards, and sit [...]
