2010 is going to be great. You know how I know? Waking up (not the first time, or any middle times, but the last time) to tiny fingers sorta tickling my shoulder… rolling my head around and opening my eyes to see E’s upside-down smile, and his gorgeous eyes looking into mine. It’s just perfect….
Category: Foughts and Theelings
This category is inevitable – I’m a diarist, after all.
Hats Off to my Grandmas and Grandpas
I am presently reading The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – a novel. I am not far along, but already I have found myself thinking of my grandparents, and all the women and men of their generation, and shaking my head in amazement. This book is set in the U.K., shortly after the…
On Being Canadian
Last night, as per my date plans, I attended a “lecture” On Being Canadian by John Ralston Saul with my hubby (after a delicious and wonderfully uninterrupted, if slightly rushed, sushi dinner). I say “lecture” because his style isn’t at all professorial, preachy, or read-y… but more on that later. It must be mentioned that…
Sploosh
I’ve been asked, with regard to the happy/greedy sighs that E makes while having a particularly good feed, “how do you keep your love from splooshing you away?” I think I may have given this simple answer at the time, and it’s still true: I don’t. I get splooshed away every single day. My husband…
In Honour of December 1st
I’m going to write a little blog post for this day, even though it’s not December 1st, not in real life, much less blogland. It’s the beginning of Advent. That was a really big deal that year I worked at a Catholic school – we had a liturgy that day, and every week in December….
The Solids Odyssey
He must be ready – all the signs are there. He watches the journey from fork/bowl/fingers/spoon to mouth, he reaches for it and grabs if he can. Everything he grabs, he directs straight for his mouth. He is even distracted from breastfeeding by this. The other day he suddenly stuck his hand right in my…
What would you do?
Here’s my real post for today. This evening I walked out onto the street after dance practice and headed for the parking lot. This meant walking through a crowd of people outside the church, which I think has a drop-in centre associated with it. The crowd had been there, just hanging out, when I’d arrived,…
Well, shoot.
Now I’m all grumpy. I just logged in to find that the post I spent a long time writing yesterday I somehow neglected to publish… and then when I went to get it, less than half of it was there. Now I don’t feel like writing the rest of it again – that post has…
Undulating Perspective
Funny how quickly an outlook can change. As with most people, I imagine, depending on how much sleep I’ve had, how much exercise I’ve gotten, my blood sugar level, how many hugs I’ve recently received, how long I’ve listened to crying that day, the stress levels of my loved ones, etc. etc., my perspective on…