Spoiled

This year I was spoiled. With camera gear.  The gift that keeps giving! The Hubs knew I really really really (really!) wanted that new camera lens and boy was I really really really (REALLY!) excited when I opened up that small box Christmas morning! As much as this a gift for me, I like to […]

Where to Start?

I have a million blog posts to write, and no idea where to start! Somewhere this week (in the midst of packing for a trip, booking hotel and rental car, taking down the Christmas decor and tidying up the house) I’ve got to fit in blog posts about – all of the awesomeness that is […]

Christmas in a Nutshell

Our Christmas weekend has been wonderful so far!  I say so far because I refuse to believe that Christmas is already over, meaning that it’s a whole YEAR before next Christmas.  Plus, our family decided to do something spectacular this year and divert a lot of the Christmas Day stress by putting off our big […]

Take That, Mayan Calendar

It’s official – Ender’s Game the movie is set to be released in March 2013. Obviously this means that the world will not be ending in December 2012 as I’m sure you were very concerned about. As you should know by now, Ender’s Game is pretty much my favourite piece of literary work.ever.  It is […]

The Moment Before the Crawl

Right now I’m savouring it. That moment, right before you know your child will take their first crawling “steps.”  The moment when they rise on all fours, pause for a moment, and then lunge back and forth until the movement lands them right back where they started, on their belly. The first time we saw […]

New Traditions: Santa Key

Oh boy!  I have been waiting for my own little munchkins to arrive just so I could start this tradition! I heard about this a few years ago, and I’m pretty sure I cried when I first thought about using it with my kids.  It’s such a sweet tradition that allows children to keep the […]

Five Days, Four Foods

Over the past five days we’ve introduced Ariadne to four new foods. In general, there is an old fashioned “wait three days rule” (or something like that) before introducing a different food to an infant. We decided that for the very beginning we’d do one food at a time, for a few meals and if […]

And then I peed in a bed pan

Below are a few things that I never really mentioned about my birthing experience.  It’s not that I intentionally left them out…but I actually kind of forgot.  Over the last few months, details have come swimming back into my head.  I’ve questioned their realism, but these instances have since been confirmed.  I was not in […]