Archive For August 30, 2016
I think I have spent a lot of my time as a parent thinking ‘I am not ready for this’. When you are first handed that beautiful, exquisite, little bundle that you have been percolating for the previous nine months, the first response is somewhere in the ‘Wow’ realm, and shortly thereafter, ‘I’m not ready…
I have a minor addiction to matching games. The kind that multicoloured jewels, candy, fruit, bubbles, bugs, monsters… fall from the top and three or more need to be matched. The goals are varied with either as many points as possible in a specific amount of time, a specific amount of points in a set…
In my late teens I was gifted a 35mm camera and that thing took the best photos. As time wore on and technology evolved and children didn’t stay still long enough for me to get everything set to take those awesome photos, life moments were captured by an automatic point and shoot camera. Last year…
I have said for many years that when my hair goes silver I will dye bright colour streaks into it. Definitely not rushing things, but I think I will be in my late 70’s before my hair is silver enough to dye. So, why wait. I now have a lovely, discrete stripe of blue in…
We’ve been camping. We tried out a new to us provincial park, travelling a little further north than we have been in the past, to Grundy Lake Provincial Park. It is lovely. The campsites are wooded. The ground is sandy, which means there is sand everywhere, feet, dogs, floor, bedding, dogs, towels, dogs. The facilities…