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Category Archives: Pace

70% of Canadians Are Lefties, It’s the Exact Opposite in the US and No One Knows Why (Oh, And This Isn’t A Post About Politics, It’s About…

…what hand we use to shoot in hockey. (I’m a lefty but my dad’s a righty.   Pace and I were on the driveway playing tonight and he was shooting right as well.  Weird.) (via Reddit)

Posted 13 August 2014 § Canada § Sports § United States ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – Bouncy Castle Boy

Love how it looks like Pace is flying…  

Posted 09 August 2014 § Photo § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) °

Saturday Snap – Ca$h Money

Pace looked rather “gangsta” on the way to the bank to deposit a bunch of money we’d accumulated as people paid us for fishing trips, birthday gifts, garage sale items and a few other things recently.

Posted 26 July 2014 § Family § Humour § Photo § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Five Things You Don’t Want To See When You Take Your Kids To The Splash Park

5. Your son saying “Hey dad, try to keep this bottle standing up!” then looking over to see he’s left his bottle of root beer standing precariously on the edge of the picnic blanket without a lid.  (Needless to say, it didn’t stay standing up.) 4. Your daughter wandering into the running water of the various […]

Posted 23 July 2014 § Family § Humour § List § Photo § Sasha § Shea ‡ Comments (0) °

Saturday Snap – New Bunk Beds in Our Garage?

Grandpa Dennis built us some new shelving for our garage. Once we got it in place, Pace and his buddy from down the street, Jeffrey, decided that the shelves would actually work better as bunk beds. They even convinced Grandpa to try them out!

Posted 19 July 2014 § Family § Humour § Photo § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Saturday Snap – Sunset Swing

Posted 12 July 2014 § Humour § Photo § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

#tbt Throwback Thursday – Summer Reading Program (July 17, 2009)

The TD Summer Reading Program is once again in full swing at libraries across Canada.  Here’s a pic of Pace and I with one of the entertainers (Walden the Wizard?) I brought in when I worked at Southeast Regional Library. Pace seems a bit uncertain of this wizard’s powers! 😉

Posted 10 July 2014 § Family § Humour § Library § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

A Few Random Thoughts on Pace’s Final Day of Grade One

At the beginning of the year, the teacher said that any kid who read 300 books would get a prize at the end of the year.  Pace ended up reading around 400 books (and probably more that we didn’t always remember to write in his reading log), got a pretty cool “Thunder Maker” toy as […]

Posted 26 June 2014 § Library § MemoryLane § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

After One Year As a Parent, One Thing is Certain…

(full comic available here and worth the click)

Posted 25 June 2014 § Baby § Family § Humour § Infographic § MemoryLane § Sasha § Shea § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Saturday Snap – Happy Father’s Day (One Day Early)

To my own dad and to the kid who made me a dad for the first time (Sasha would’ve been in this photo too but she was back in the campsite doing a really good job of staying away from the water!)

Posted 14 June 2014 § Family § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,