Pace at the mall parking lot fair we take him to each year to mark the end-of-school-year…
For the past few years, my aunt has come to stay with us for a month or so in May. She’s around for Pace’s birthday, helps watch the kids while we tackle some of our spring projects, uses our home as a base for visiting various friends from when she lived in Regina and otherwise […]
This site uses census data to match your name’s popularity the year you were born (Jason = #3 in 1973) with the same ranked name from this year (Mason = #3 in 2015) as well as some other years as well. For the record… Shea would be Amaya Pace would be Abriel Sasha would be Zara […]
I often feel guilty that Shea and I don’t do a better job of keeping up Pace’s reading log but after doing a few “I’m a librarian. I can confirm he’s reading all the time. We’re good.”-type entries at the start of the year, we’ve slipped off completely. At least that means we won’t get any notes […]
Microsoft recently launched a new site called How-Old.net that went viral due to its use of fancy math algorithms to guess the ages of people in pictures you upload. (Full warning – Shea read some article on Facebook saying the site has fine print that Microsoft obtains rights to re-use your photos or something so […]
The Calgary Flames have been using a Calgary Fire Department helmet for players to pick the “unsung hero of the game” after each victory for the past couple seasons. I don’t have a picture of Pace wearing a CFD helmet but I do have a pic of him checking out a fire truck courtesy of my […]
Target is now closed for good in Regina after teaching a lesson in how not to run a business. (I still remember reading an interview with some Target big wig right before they opened who said something like: “Oh, we don’t intend to have lower prices than our competition. We’ll price to match the market.”) Even if […]
I’ve had many of these told to me by my parents and now, I’m doing the same to my kids – it’s the circle of life! 😉
