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The Story of a Bedtime

So tonight was fairly routine at the start… Pace has his snack while watching videos on the iPad. Shea reads Sasha a story and then nurses her before putting her to bed. Sasha immediately starts crying in her crib as she’s been doing lately. I go check on Sasha and she’s got a wet diaper […]

¶ Posted 20 January 2015 § Baby § Humour § MemoryLane § Pace § Politics § Sasha § Shea § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, unitedstates

Saturday Snap – Pace Thinks I’m Number One

Unfortunately…

¶ Posted 17 January 2015 § Humour § Pace § Photo § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Grand Palladium Palace, Punta Cana

One month…

¶ Posted 16 January 2015 § FridayFunLink § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: allinclusive

Saturday Snap – Good Hygiene Is Important

¶ Posted 10 January 2015 § Humour § Pace § Photo § Sasha § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) °

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Happy! New! Year!

How often can Throwback Thursday be a clip from the day before and also last year? That’s why my dad’s favourite joke every New Year’s Eve is some variation of “See you next year!” 😉 Here’s Pace and his cousins partying it up last night year…

¶ Posted 01 January 2015 § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (1) °

Friday Fun Link – 10 Random Thoughts About Christmas This Year

At our house, Santa doesn’t wrap the presents. This provides a few main advantages – makes things quicker to get set-up if you haven’t pre-wrapped the gifts, prevents awkward “Why does Santa use the same wrapping paper as mommy and daddy?” questions, and allows the kids to get an immediate jolt when they first glimpse […]

¶ Posted 26 December 2014 § FridayFunLink § List § MemoryLane § Pace § Randomness § Sasha § Shea § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday

The True Meaning of Christmas That Everyone Forgets

Someone on my Facebook posted a rather profound article about how the arguments between “Merry Christmas” and “Happy Holidays” are misguided. The article points out the fact that our Christmas traditions have well-documented roots back to a pagan time, long ago, when people came together for a festival during the longest night of the year […]

¶ Posted 25 December 2014 § MemoryLane § Sad § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, holiday, philosophy

Saturday Snap – She Really Likes Cookies

I wouldn’t recommend letting kids play around the stove normally. But it was pretty cute when Shea turned the oven light on to show Sasha the baking cookies and Sasha spontaneously kissed the glass!

¶ Posted 20 December 2014 § Humour § Photo § Sasha § SaturdaySnap § Shea § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) °

Saturday Snap – Candy Cane Lane #yqr

As a follow-up to my post about SparkleTour.ca, Shea and I ended up doing a mini-sparkle tour in the north end last night after running a couple errands. One of our stops was an area called Candy Cane Lane where the residents of the Normanview community are encouraged to decorate their homes for Christmas. One […]