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Saturday Snap – A Very Appropriately Named Board Game

The kids are obviously living up to the title of the board game by beating their parents pretty handily in a game of “Beat The Parents” tonight. 🙂

¶ Posted 16 March 2019 § Family § Pace § Photo § Sasha § SaturdaySnap § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: education

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – How Did I Get Here? – #5 – Sociability

Okay, let’s resume the series I started before we left for Mexico where I write about some of the major things that have impacted the person I am today. The first four were my parents, my friends, books and travel (I won’t link to them here as I’ll probably do a master list at the […]

¶ Posted 14 March 2019 § List § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Travel § UK § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: education, travel

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – How Did I Get Here? – #4 – Travel

Not sure if I’ll end up blogging much when we’re in Mexico next week but I thought making “travel” #4 in this series would be a good way to head into our holiday either way. The funny part is that my love of travel actually starts from a weird piece of family trivia – I […]

¶ Posted 21 February 2019 § Family § Library § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Travel § UK § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: education, holiday, travel

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – “We Don’t Know Joy Without Experiencing Sadness” – Some Thoughts on a Tough Year

There’s no two ways about it – this has been one of the toughest years of our lives. Shea and I have dealt with a family member being diagnosed with, treated for, and living with all the fallout from a fairly serious form of cancer, numerous deaths of people who were connected to us – […]

¶ Posted 20 December 2018 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Shea § ThrowbackThursday § Work ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: health

Music Monday – “If we were vampires and death was a joke/We’d go out on the sidewalk and smoke/And laugh at all the lovers and their plans/I wouldn’t feel the need to hold your hand”

A lot of my music-loving friends had posted something about this song but I’m embarrassed to admit I didn’t even give it a listen because I thought the title was terrible and reminded me of “Twilight” or something. But I finally gave it a chance and boy, was I wrong. Probably one of the most […]

¶ Posted 19 November 2018 § Family § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Shea § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: music

Happy 47th Anniversary Mom and Dad!

Here’s a pic from this past summer of my folks in front of the United Church they got married at forty-seven years ago!

¶ Posted 23 October 2018 § Family § MemoryLane § Photo § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: saskatchewan

Saturday Snap – Happy Thanksgiving!

Went out to Indian Head today for an early Thanksgiving supper with Shea’s parents and my parents plus us and the kids. And since it’s that time of the year, here’s a list… 10 Things I’m Thankful For That we get to have Thanksgiving supper with all four grandparents. Many people I know aren’t so […]