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Monthly Archives December 2015

2015 End of Year Memes: Two Tropical Trips, Election Wins & Loses, Campy Camper Camping

1. What did you do this year that you’d never done before? One of many secret shames in that I never learned how to downhill ski when I was growing up.  The first year we did a class trip to Mission Ridge in the Qu’Appelle Valley, I was injured and couldn’t go.  Then the next […]

Posted 31 December 2015 § Meme ‡ Comments (1) °

First Lines from My First Blog Post of Every Month in 2015

Hello from Cuba! (Not really – I pre-loaded this post before we left on our trip as it’s always one of my favourite posts of the year and an interesting way to look back at the past twelve months…) January – “How often can Throwback Thursday be a clip from the day before and also […]

Posted 30 December 2015 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) °

Merry Christmas!

One of the best Christmases I can remember – great gifts, great food, great moments, great family plus in two days, we’re off to Cuba! Enjoying Christmas supper… Sasha got cool sunglasses for the beach and a new hoodie from Grandpa and Grandma… She also loved her princess dress-up outfit…   Pace had a parkour […]

Posted 25 December 2015 § Family § Humour § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan § Shea § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Our Xmas Baby Reveal (Dec 24, 2012)

Posted 24 December 2015 § Baby § Family § Pace § Sasha § Shea § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

19 Crazy Facts About Bill Gates’ Mansion

He is the richest man in the world after all (and his library sounds amazing!)

Posted 22 December 2015 § Internet § Library § Technology § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “He told his niece/’It’s Christmas Eve, I know our life is not your style,’/She said, ‘Christmas is like solstice/And we miss you and it’s been awhile'”

Happy Solstice! What a perfect song for today’s Music Monday post as this song compares and contrasts traditional Christian holiday celebrations with those who are not… “Christians and the Pagans” – Dar Williams

Posted 21 December 2015 § Humour § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

One Week From Today…

…we will be here:

Posted 20 December 2015 § Family § Pace § Sasha § Shea § Travel § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Saturday Snap – Pace’s School Winter Concert

They’re not allowed to say “Christmas” but this year, his grade sang a recognizable Christmas song (“Let It Snow”) [Edit: oh, that’s funny.  I looked back at my post from three years ago about Pace’s first school concert and what song did I suggest would be a good, non-offensive choice but still “Christmasy”?  Someone from […]

Posted 19 December 2015 § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap § SecularSunday § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Star Wars Christmas (sometime in the early 1980’s) & Friday Fun Link – “The Force Awakens” Random Thoughts

Not often I get to combine my Throwback Thursday and Friday Fun Link but after making a fairly spontaneous decision to go to a midnight showing of the new Star Wars movie last night, I thought posting this picture was a bit of both categories. I’ll try to keep it spoiler-free as I give a […]

Posted 18 December 2015 § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § News § Photo § PopCulture § ThrowbackThursday § Xmas ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , , ,

“Home Alone” in the Style of Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road”

I think someone just went wild with a thesaurus instead of trying to capture the style of McCarthy.  But this is still an interesting attempt to capture McCarthy’s style of writing. They lift the kid by his blood-dimmed sweater and hang him on a coatrack. Madness on their faces. The mantis gone moronic. The squat’s tonsured head […]

Posted 17 December 2015 § Humour § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,