I am sick. I am sick of being sick. I have been sick for almost 6 weeks and I havent gotten well. I have gone to the doctor. The first time I did, she gave me antibiotics for a sinus infection. Two w...
Im going to write this as a tribute to my mother and its way overdue for Mothers Day but who said Mothers Day had to be the first Sunday of May anyway. Every Mothers Day, actually, I tell my mom...
Someone recently told me that she hated reading Mommy blogs. She complained it gave her esteem issues. All these mommies did was to blog about the beautiful stuff they would bake with their kids and ...
Being teachers, both Packrat and I look at Parent-Teachers Conferences for our children as a little bit of a minefield and regard it with not just a little bit of irony. This is because of all the na...
As I was growing up, my parents marriage almost disintegrated before my eyes. It was a train wreck you could see coming, there was nothing to do to avoid it but to pick up the pieces of it after. And...
While we were out one day, Evan wanted to take a brochure that was placed outside a learning centre. I warned him not to. Naturally, he demanded to know why he couldnt take that piece of paper. I sto...
Muffin is out of hospital. He was discharged after spending not one, but two nights in hospital. For the record, I dont ever want to do that again.Anyway, he seems about 90% back to normal now. 90% b...
The one thing I dreaded most, even more than the kids getting sick and has never happened until today was to have one of my children hospitalized. Muffin woke up last night at 2 am gagging, choking a...
I was at the receiving end of dictation today. The first time since I left school. Jordan commanded me to write down her story. A story she had dreamed up to describe the house she drew. It took a gr...
I should shroud this post in black. Because I am in mourning. Not for anyone human though.I am in mourning because my trusy MacBook of 4 years gave up the ghost on Wednesday. For the last few days, I...
Jordan took her first ballet exam last week.It was a mad rush for me to pick her up from school, get her to ballet, get her changed in time for her hair to get worked on. And that was the highlight o...
When I am in the mall and walk past those kiddy hairdressers where the kid is sitting obedienetly in the chair and has his eyes glued to Barney playing on loop on the portable DVD player in front of ...
For years, Packrat has been telling me that I need to find myself a hobby. This came about because I would pout and sulk when he wanted to game, claiming that I was being widowed by his love for comp...
One of the most important skills that we feel our children should be able to pick up is to ride a bike. The bike is to a child what a car is to a young adult. A source of freedom.Of course, at this a...
One of my most vivid and unpleasant memories about school life was waiting to be picked up after school. It would start with seeing the school compound gradually empty out as parents came by to pick ...
Weve been on holiday. Actually, the twins and Packrat have been on holiday. Ive been running around like a headless chicken, trying to keep the children entertained while still keeping up my regular ...
The kids Facebook page is called The Mighty Adventures of JED. And they do love adventure. We do too but we dont go out and do exceptionally adventurous things on purpose like do the Treetop walk and...
I hate homework. I hated homework as a kid. And I hate homework now. I also know that I will hate homework more, in the future, when the consequence of not doing it is more dire.For now, whenever I f...
I know lots of husbands / dads who travel. As teachers we dont travel as much for work although it is not unheard of. I did spend three and a half weeks in Calgary one Chinese New Year pre-kids.With ...
Muffin will be 25 months tomorrow. It is passing far too quickly. He is in school. He has graduated out of sleeping in the cot and eating in his high chair. He is gradually growing out of babyhood.We...
The little actress most recent monologue is Psalm 23 complete with actions. While she mis-pronounces some words, it is heartwarming to see her recite it.*The sound and the picture dont sync very well...
I just blogged about Jordan being dreamy and loving to doodle. Like most parents, I look at my kids and wonder what they will end up doing when they grow up. I dont think my parents looked at me when...
When I was in primary school, every year, my report book would say the same thing. "She needs to try harder." or "She is capable of better work." I was. According to my mother, I was ...
Muffin turned two about 2 weeks ago. Then he got sick. The two situations put together seemed to have triggered the Terrible Twos tantrums on a nuclear scale.He is battling everything and everyone. H...
The love for the movie How to Train a Dragon does not end with Evan. Jordan adores the movie as much as she adores her Princess collection. Dragons are part of our daily conversation. Just yesterday,...
Today is Muffins second birthday. And officially I have breastfed for 4 years 8 months minus a full 40 week pregnancy in between. And it is over.I had decided that I would breastfeed Muffin till 2 be...
Just as Jordan is developing her artisitc, expressive side, Evan is developing his vast knowledge of all sorts of information. It started with distinguishing between Chinooks and Apaches and then the...
Slowly but surely, the distinct gifts or areas of interest of the 3 children are becoming clear.Jordan is the artist. She draws, she sings, she dances and now, weve discovered, she can dramatise too....
Thank goodness Chinese New Year is only once a year because all the travelling that is done on the first day of the new year is just down right exhausting.There was so much travelling.It went along t...
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