We had awful, awful news at our school last week. A five-year-old girl died after returning home from school one afternoon. One of our own kindergarten students. It’s like a punch in the gut, a slap in the face that makes you see stars, and makes the colours all weirdly bright. Suddenly danger is brilliantly…
Tag: family
Wishful Thinking for the New Year
Happy New Year, lovely Di-hards. I’m making wishes today. This one is for you: I wish for your baby to be born so sweet and healthy that the whole world smiles. And you: I wish for that project you’re working on to grow wings and take off (with you in the pilot seat, of course). And you: I…
An Unabashed Christmas Post
Now that my li’l family seems to be out of the woods for now, sickness-wise (yes, my kids did trade germs with each other), it’s time to get FESTIVE! I’ve realized something, as an adult: Christmas to me, now, is all about the season. It was a fairly gradual shift from being super-duper-mega-crazy excited about…
I’ll keep my multicoloured Friday, thanks.
So, apparently some Canadian retailers are trying to jump on the Black Friday bandwagon. I’d like to state, for the record, that I OBJECT, for the following reasons: It doesn’t make sense. Most Canadians have NEITHER the Friday after American Thanksgiving NOR the Friday before Canadian Thanksgiving off (for the purposes of frenzied consumerism or…
Celebrating One Year of Baby AB
Dear Baby AB, It’s hard to believe it’s already, and only, been a year since you came on the scene in person. The night I laboured with you, so many people could hardly wait to for you to arrive. There were people scattered across the city, the province, the continent, who were thrilled to hear…
Happy Honeymoon!
This past Saturday, my sweet cousin Q married her true love, and we all gathered on Cape Cod to celebrate. It was a gorgeous splash of purple and white against the blue-and-green of the last day of summer, a day full of music and dancing and lovely, heartfelt, tear-inducing prose. It may well be impossible…
Celebrating the Beth Day Ever!
I’d like to tell you about my baby sister. It was her birthday last Friday, but for some reasons (namely, busy Labour Day weekend and then going back to work, ack) this birthday post is very, very late. Mini-Di shared a room with Mini-Beth (3 years her/my junior) for about 8 years. I have lots…
The village that raises my children
Family Camp 2013 at Camp NeeKauNis: Where there was ALWAYS sand in my bed. Where we scored the luxury of a cabin with a bathroom (thanks for being a baby, Baby AB!). Where Sean was able to be with us for four happy days. Where we ate three home-cooked meals a day – none…
Things to be grateful for when travelling with small children
Travelling with little kids is tough and stressful. As such, it would be easy to kvetch about the monkey wrench in our travels to my cousin’s wedding in New Mexico last weekend – the storm that delayed our flight from Buffalo, meaning the folks at Washington Dulles didn’t have our gate ready, meaning we missed…
Baby AB’s Fashion Blog – Issue #9: Jet-Setter-Wedding-Guest Edition
Airports visited by Baby AB and entourage between last Thursday and Monday on our trip to a family wedding in New Mexico: … AND back to Buffalo. A sampling of fashions worn by Baby AB during our 5-day odyssey: There is so much more to tell about our epic trip. Please stay tuned. ***…