We all want to be unique – to feel as though there is no one else in the world quite like us. We all want to be the same – to feel as though we belong in a group and that we aren’t the weird freak standing on the fringe. I think we’re probably all [...]

I wake up to the sound of my alarm clock. 6 o’clock. Up before the sun and before the quiet fades. My favourite time of the day. Alone with my thoughts. I hear the furnace rumble. Turning on at the programmed time. There is no other sound in the house. As close to quiet as [...]

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My girls are kind of sick of ballet.The classes I paid through the nose for, they are just kind of "meh" about it all and could take them or leave them."I don’t want to do ballet anymore, mom," Avelyn explained….

My son turned five the other day. He turned five in the blink of an eye. A moment that zoomed toward me faster than I could have ever imagined and passed us just as quickly. He is no longer only five. He is five years and seven days old, and before I can blink again [...]

Christmas is coming!  Christmas is coming!  The tree, the ornaments, the turkey, the eggnog, the PRESENTS. I asked Will what he wanted from Santa.  His response has been consistent.  Toys, candy and a strawberry cake.  Strawberry cake…how in hell do…

By Kate Hammer and Tamara Baluja This fall, Graham Johnson gave up lecturing to his students. YouTube, he figured, could handle that. So he had his math classes at Okanagan Mission Secondary School in Kelowna, B.C., watch prerecorded video lessons from home – freeing up school time for one-on-one work. Turns out pixelated teaching works [...]

Mallory and I spent a couple of hours going around and around Brewer Arena, today. On skates, that is. Irene and Mallory went skating yesterday and they had so much fun Mallory wanted a repeat today. – Syndicated from http://cmkl.ca

Well it happened. I had to sign The Sheet this week when we were late for school. The entire run to school I was debating with myself whether I would actually write “Nude Bugaloo” as the reason for our tardiness. By the time we burst through the front doors of the school, I was ready [...]

Oh man has this been a week… First I guess if you noticed I have stopped posting daily. I was participating in the BlogHer NaBloPoMo and was doing pretty good making sure I posted something every day – even on the weekends. Then … life happened and the house (miraculously minus me) got struck down [...]

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As Will gets older – the birthday party invitations are starting to roll in!  I think it’s fun for him but I hope it isn’t like year long bridal showers…you know one every weekend that you have to plan the…

I spend a significant amount of time at the pool. Swimming is currently the only activity that I have the kids signed up for, but two kids in swimming still means that I’m hanging at the pool at least three times a week. My three-year-old daughter likes to share the fun of her adventures with [...]

*SIGH*When I was a kid (yes, I was that kind of kid) I loved report cards. I looked forward to them with an anticipation second only to Christmas morning. Why? Well, of course because I was a good student, with…

Second night in a row. I don’t want to jinx it, but it looks as though this whole sleeping on her own thing might take. Because I have said it before. – Syndicated from http://cmkl.ca

The Oil of Oregano worked for a week. And then it didn’t. I’m sick. Yes, again. I think moving forward we should just assume that at all points for the rest of the fall and winter, I will be overcome by some virus or another and spewing evil little germs from my nose and mouth. [...]

I’m all about dads playing hard with the kiddos, but around here I’ve noticed that “playing with” the kids has a tendency to transform into “showing off” for the kids. Unfortunately, when the showing off starts, the risk of Daddy-o injuries increases. That famous quote from Top Gun often comes to mind: “Your ego is [...]

Archiving Mallory’s artwork from the last little while. – Syndicated from http://cmkl.ca

Not the Christopher Cross version. Note to self: iPhone videos work better in horizontal mode. Note also to self: say something about those bloody cops in UC Davis. Will they get fired after getting videoed doing something awful? – Syndicated from ht…

We are chronically late. To everything, everywhere, every day. That’s just the way it is around here. However, the biggest late issue is the one that we face every morning. School. We have made it to the school before first bell possibly two or three times this year. We usually arrive at the door of my [...]

Mallory had her piano lesson this evening. She’s quite impressive, I think. But then I would say that. She’s very good at the sequences of notes and moving her fingers around the keyboard. Even with both hands. But she is missing rhythm. It’s not even …

1. Tell the children that the toys are theirs and therefore they must clean them up. 2. Wait 5 minutes before going back into the playroom to find that the kids have each put one tiny piece of Lego into a bucket before forgetting what they were doing a…