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Friday Fun Link – Arkanoid, Cosmic Avenger, Wayne Gretzky Hockey II

Pace and I have spent the evening watching YouTube videos of the video games I loved as a kid – here are YouTube videos of three of my all-time favourites:

¶ Posted 18 October 2019 § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Sports § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, history, hockey

Ten Things I’m Thankful For This Thanksgiving

Nothing too surprising on this list but here you go… 1. Although my mother-in-law battled a serious form of cancer for most of last year, she’s doing much better and, knock on wood, everyone else in our immediate family is doing well healthwise from Sasha who’s six years old to my dad who’s seventy years […]

¶ Posted 13 October 2019 § Family § List § Photo § Sasha § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: health, holiday, parents

Saturday Snap – Siblings

Walking to school…

¶ Posted 28 September 2019 § Family § Photo § Sasha § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, education

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – His Love of Parkour Started Early! (March 2012)

(This is also the cleanest his room has been in seven years as well since we’d cleared it out while preparing to paint it.)

¶ Posted 26 September 2019 § Humour § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute

Saturday Snap – Building A Playground Is Building A Community

With our respective schedules, Shea and I end up with one Friday off together each month. Yesterday, we did some errands in the morning then went over to our kids’ school where, after years of fundraising by the Student Community Council, they were finally about to build a new playground structure with the help of […]

¶ Posted 14 September 2019 § Family § MemoryLane § Sasha § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, health, saskatchewan

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Going South (February 2015)

Our family on a plane heading to the Dominican Republic in 2015 (and part of how we afford our holidays? I still wear that same t-shirt four years later!) 😉

¶ Posted 12 September 2019 § Family § Photo § Sasha § Shea § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, holiday, travel

First Day of School 2019

Grade seven and grade one!

¶ Posted 03 September 2019 § Family § MemoryLane § Sasha ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education

Sasha’s Five Cutest Moments From Our “Cow Gary” trip

One of the reasons you travel with children is the opportunity to learn about and experience the world in the way they can’t from a classroom or even books. Here’s a few examples: 5. On the way into Calgary, her brother is “helpfully” giving her a history lesson. “A long time ago, there was a […]

¶ Posted 21 August 2019 § Canada § Humour § List § Sasha ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, cute, education, holiday, language, travel

Banff Gondola and Sulphur Mountain Summit

It’s hard to pick a favourite part of our quick trip to Calgary – seeing the pandas at the Calgary Zoo (though gorillas and hippos will always be my favourites), driving past so many of our old haunts (even tried to buzz a neighbour whose name is still on the board at our former condo […]