My baby is seventeen months old! One more month and I will stop entitling his blog posts using months! (Although I’m sure I’ll still count them in my head.) I’m running late with this blog post, and it’s almost my bedtime… so I’ll have to create an addendum one of these days, with more details,…
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Wishing to Remember You
This is my grandpa. His picture was one of dozens included in a slide show as part of the Remembrance Day assembly at school today – all relatives of people in our school community. My grandpa was part of the 101st Airborne division for the American Allies during World War II, and parachuted into Normandy…
My Bloggiversary
How silly that the first week of November (which some call National Blog Posting Month) 2010, I was so busy and harried and generally off my rocker that I did not manage to blog AT ALL. I missed my very own Bloggiversary, November 2nd! This time last year, I barely knew what a blog was,…
Jack-o’-Lanterns… still punkins at heart.
These are the Jack-‘o’-Lanterns we carved for Halloween last night. Can you guess which one was carved by Dilovely and which by my hubbibi? E was not happy to see this face on his beloved vegetable. He said, “Punkin… face… face.” He went to touch it and then started to look teary – so Skye…
School Snippets #6: Halloween
I’m sheepish to say that I haven’t put much effort into Halloween since I’ve been an adult. Even more shamefully, there have been two years out of the last three where I didn’t even manage to get a real pumpkin for jack-o-lantern purposes (I left it so late that there were none left – seriously!)….
Bellydance Bizarre
I thought y’all might enjoy this video of (some of) our dance troupe, Invoketress, dancing our interpretation of the story of Lillith to Apocalyptica’s cover of Metallica’s “One”. We performed last weekend at the Bellydance Bizarre, hosted by DownHips of Cambridge. What a fantastic show: all the dancers bring their most funny/weird/creepy numbers to the…
Toddler Tracks IV
E the Toddler has sent his first text messages. He sent Sean “Zkqbb”, “Dearer set” (the iPhone even translates baby typing sometimes), “Mnnnnjjjmm Mmllel”, and “HalzxErZzkqwqatmb”. Then he sent my friend “U W c. Ymmjolllpl”. He is really trying to give kisses to the cats. They don’t want them, but it’s still cute to see…
School Snippets #5
I’ve been helped to understand a significant truth. I’ve noticed the craze of “silly bands” – as a teacher, I can’t avoid them. For those of you who are not between the ages of six and twelve, they’re stretchy bracelets that form different shapes when relaxed, in all different colours. (Like the 2010 version of…
Eating Well
Sean and I are giving our digestive systems a break this week. Sean has been reading the famous book Skinny Bastard, guy version (complete with swearing and other locker-room lingo) of the even-more-famous book Skinny Bitch. It’s all about how you have to shape up and eat right if you want to be fit, so…
Great Advice
It was a busy weekend, in which I had considerable reason to think about the way people’s minds work. I think we all have those times when we are bitter about something, and we’ve all hung on to things longer than we should have. Like, for example, I still get righteously angry when I think…