First update since Christmas, but it's practically spring here in Ottawa ( Read more... )

Wow, I knew the late fall was going to be busy, but I didn't realize that after Thanksgiving, I'd look up and it would already be Christmas just around the corner ( Read more... )

Before we drove down to my parents for Thanksgiving weekend, I decided to cut up the little red hot peppers (maybe birds eye?) that we'd received in our vegetable basket. I neglected to use gloves, and my fingers were hurting so badly, even into the next day. It's like a neural disrupter, the pain sort of goes away, then returns if you put hot ( Read more... )

Well, if I can manage to get this written up and posted before September ends in a few days, I'll have managed to post more than once a month ( Read more... )

I know it's not really over, not yet - but it feels like it's soon. The mornings are cool enough that I wish I had a light jacket when I walk to work, the evenings are nice enough to open the windows when we sleep, and it's dark when I tuck Owen into bed (we need to put the nightlight on again ... sigh). Won't be long till there are leaves on the ( Read more... )

I can't believe it's already August. Summer goes way too fast ( Read more... )

It's been a crazy first week of July. First, there was the long weekend for July 1st, then the Canada Day Cold came, then Owen was at his first summer camp, and now we've arrived at our first "free" weekend in a long time. We have no plans at all ( Read more... )

Well, here it is, summer already, June almost done, almost a month since my last update. I'm off work today, a well deserved vacation day. At the beginning of June, I was gone to Quebec City for work for 6 days, though it felt like longer! It was my organizations annual conference, and I worked every one of those 6 days, including the weekend, ( Read more... )

Things are pretty busy here, which makes the time fly. I made a few notes of funny stories to share, so hopefully this blog entry is more fun than some others ( Read more... )

Well, time keeps moving, so now it's May. May will be busy for me at work, June is busy for us at home, July and August are practically 100% booked up, and Mack already has 8 shows booked between October and December - this is crazy! How did life get so busy ( Read more... )