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Our third was due two days after Halloween 2008. It was customary to drive out to my sister’s place so the boys could shell-out with their cousins, but we were nervous about being more than an hour from home. So we made a plan: Grandma would pick up the kids and take …
When Windy was about 18 months old, we decided we wanted another just like him. So, one dreary December day, I borrowed Daddy’s toothbrush and we started re-arranging furniture. In the new year, when all was confirmed and the grandparents were informed (I love breaking the “rules”), I started hunting for a new midwife. I [...]
It was Friday, April 25th, 2003: DaddyH and I had rented a couple of movies for the weekend, from the local Vietnamese video store. We were watching Session 9, not the best movie for a new mom to see (check it out, if you must know why). I remember sitting on the edge of my [...]
My daughter is two today! And she is officially a girl. She has spent the last year and a half playing with her older brothers’ toys – Transformers, trains, cars, light sabers, swords, guns and, most recently, Lego. She’s always had fun with them. She’s never known anything else. She has also always worn her [...]
I did my first fast when I decided to have my first baby. DaddyH and I had been slowly making the shift to healthier, holistic (do people still use that word?) living. We stopped eating sugar and wheat, started filtering all of our water – not just drinking – and tossed every chemical we had [...]
Ladder of Achievement: 100% – I did 90% – I will 80% – I can 70% – I think I can 60% – I might 50% – I think I might 40% What is it? 30% – I wish I could 20% – I don’t know how 10% – I can’t 0% – I won’t
Snippets from this week’s conversations: *** E: Mummy! He won’t let me hit him with this stick! M: Say that again? E: He won’t let me hit him with this stick! M: Say that one more time and listen to what you are saying. * M: He’s not supposed to be on the computer right [...]
The orchard is throwing up apples. We don’t spray for pests or diseases, and we stopped pruning years ago – call it laziness, busy-ness, whatever – but every two or three years, we have perfect growing weather and in spite of our lack of attention, the trees give us a fantastic harvest. This year is [...]
This week I dusted off my ‘new juicer’ and tried some of my old favourites. This is my second juicer. I purchased it about 3 years ago because my first one, which worked fine, sounded like a chainsaw every time I started it up, so I couldn’t use it while the babes were sleeping. The new [...]
I’ve spent the last several days going through my old seeds and deciding what to use and what to toss. I generally have no trouble germinating seeds that are three or four years old. I don’t even store them under particularly ‘seed-friendly’ conditions, and yet many of them still produce. Now, that’s fine, of course, [...]
Today, Christine was liberated from her own mind. Imagine the freedom! Happy Birthday, Lisa!
It is usually a struggle to get a decent rink made in time for Christmas. We bought a rink kit a few years ago, but without the right kind of weather, it still won’t work. Some years, winter arrives early with a huge dumping of snow in late November, but it’s often just a lot of [...]
The choice to reproduce, for those of us fortunate enough to have one, is supported by many terms and conditions. Most of these are assumed from the get-go: less sleep, more mess, less control, more chaos, less sex, more cuddling. The “experts” (many of whom haven’t had children but have written lots of books about [...]
Our first was born with what some health professionals may have called a “mild deformity”. He had bruising across one side of his face (fine), a flattened ear (common), and a foot that was bent up to his shin. Hmmm. The midwives weren’t concerned; the baby had simply ‘maxed out’ the space given to him in …
A friend of the family once told me: Having one is like having none. Having two is like having twenty. We have three. With our first, life didn’t really change much. Our neighbours gave us this fabulous sling, so we took him everywhere with us. We took him shopping, we took him to parties, we took [...]
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