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Eric Carle, Author of “The Hungry Caterpillar” Among Many Other Classics, Has Died

Very sad news. We had a “Hungry Caterpillar” themed birthday when Sasha turned one that was a huge hit – great decorations (mostly homemade or from the Dollar Store), a “Hungry Caterpillar” dress ordered off Etsy, and her (at the time) five year old brother even did a reading of “The Hungry Caterpillar” using a […]

¶ Posted 26 May 2021 § Baby § Family § Library § MemoryLane § News § PopCulture § Sad ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, cute, holiday, parents

Reasons To Go Back to School / Reasons Not To Go Back To School

Regina Public Schools to return to in-class learning on May 3, 2021. https://t.co/YZayV5QOJv pic.twitter.com/OHaAUGGPED — Regina Public Schools (@RegPublicSchool) April 26, 2021 Regina Public Schools has announced that students will return to school on May 3 and there is lots of debate on social media and elsewhere about the decision. Five Reasons It’s Good […]

¶ Posted 28 April 2021 § List § News § Pace § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, education, health, science

Saturday Snap – Self Portrait

¶ Posted 24 April 2021 § Family § Humour § Photo § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Hands (April 2013)

Sasha, Pace and I comparing hand sizes a week after she was born…

¶ Posted 22 April 2021 § Family § Pace § Photo ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, parents

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Covid Birthday Preparations (April 2020)

Exactly one year ago today, we were preparing for a very unusual Covid-birthday for Sasha, only a month after Covid hit. On April 16, we held a birthday without many of the things you’d normally have with the main thing we missed was a gathering of friends and maybe a table at Chuck E. Cheese […]

¶ Posted 15 April 2021 § Family § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, holiday

I Did Not Wake Up Expecting To Do A Covid Test Today…

…but my RN wife brought home a box of rapid tests as some healthcare staff are being encouraged to test themselves regularly to help catch Covid before it can spread in the hospital. Since they were also allowed to test family members, I got to be the guinea pig for her first “at home” test […]

¶ Posted 30 March 2021 § Family § Jobs § Pace § Photo § Shea § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, health, science

Saturday Snap – Triple Masking = Max Covid Protection?

I was talking to the kids about possibly double-masking as an added precaution and Sasha decided to take it a step further with three masks (which she didn’t end up wearing, mostly because she ran out of ear to hook the straps on!) And it didn’t last long as we made the decision to pull […]

¶ Posted 27 March 2021 § Humour § Photo § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, health

Friday Fun Link – Coronavirus Cake

Thinking about ideas for Sasha’s birthday…

¶ Posted 19 March 2021 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, holiday

Covid-19: A Year in Review

But remembering the past is also a way of believing that this moment will someday be the past. Which is to say, nostalgia for the past is also a way of believing in the future. Daydreaming about the After Times — the Before Times’s mythic counterpart — is in part an exercise in imagining what it will […]