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Sappy Sunday – What Are Some Stories About Your Dad You’d Want Your Kids To Know?

From Quora, this story about a son, a dad and a boat killed me… Read Quote of Jonas M Luster’s answer to Family and Families: What are some stories about your dad you would want your kids to know about? on Quora

¶ Posted 04 November 2012 § Family § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: parents

Friday Fun Link – Shea and I Are Expecting (You’ll Watch This Video We Made)

¶ Posted 26 October 2012 § Baby § Family § FridayFunLink § Humour § MemoryLane § Pace § Shea § Video ‡ Comments (1) °

Eulogy for Uncle Ken

Shea’s uncle passed away last week, rather suddenly after a year-long battle with cancer (that’s a weird way to describe it but that’s how it went.) Shea and I were honoured to be asked to do the eulogy by his widow and since we happened to be in Weyburn last weekend, we were able to […]

¶ Posted 17 October 2012 § Family § MemoryLane § Saskatchewan § Shea § Wisdom ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: health, language, parents

Music Monday – Pace’s First Day of Kindergarten (Video Edition)

¶ Posted 10 September 2012 § Baby § Family § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Shea § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, parents

Saturday Snap – Pace’s First Day of Kindergarten

¶ Posted 08 September 2012 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) °

Pace Starts Kindergarten Today

I know I keep saying it but where did the last five years go? Wow…

¶ Posted 05 September 2012 § Baby § Family § Humour § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Shea ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: cute, parents

Music Monday – “What’s gonna happen to you/You have woke up too soon/And found the world rearranged/And now your feelings have changed”

Shea found this one which is timely for Pace’s first day of kindergarten this week (and also for triggering tears in his very mixed emotion parents):

¶ Posted 03 September 2012 § Baby § Family § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Pace § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, music, parents

Ranking The Top 10 Milestones of a Person’s Life

In exactly one week, Pace starts kindergarten. It’s a cliche but it truly is hard to believe how fast the time has flown. I thought it might be fun to try to rank the major milestones of a person’s life. Other than being born and dying, I know not everyone will hit these milestones but […]

¶ Posted 29 August 2012 § Baby § Family § Humour § MemoryLane § Pace § Shea § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language, parents

Sappy Sunday – The 100 Saddest Songs

A whole bunch of sadness in convenient list form. Coincidentally, I’ve just made a playlist on Rdio called “Guaranteed Tears” where I tried to collect all of the songs that have made me cry in the past. (Sad songs list via MetaFilter)

¶ Posted 26 August 2012 § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language, music

iDevices and the Visually Impaired

I think I may have posted at least one of these links before but here’s a collection of a few cool stories about how iDevices (iPhones & iPads) have out-of-the-box accessibility features and add-on apps that are changing the lives of visually impaired people in majorly significant ways (that second story about how a new […]