I suppose it’s time that I announce on my blog that I have started writing a column for the Toronto Sun. With a focus on parenting/education issues, it is a writers dream to have people read about your (intelligent? educated? interesting?) personal thoughts on topical issues. If you’re interested, here are my columns to date: Schooling A Culture of Mediocrity… Read More
Letting Them Down
I’ve had the feeling that I’ve been letting my kids down recently. Real or perceived…it’s there. I don’t do crafts very often, we don’t bake as much as we used to, our ‘free play’ (ie: run around and chase each other) is more limited. We have been hemmed in by the spring rains and so gardening and park playing have… Read More
Get into nature
A long weekend. It’s what us working parents long for. Time with our kids, uninterrupted- and so this is what we did. Bliss. Together. Quality. Time. Outside.
Just doing the best we can…
We’re sick. Very, very sick. Husband=sick. Wife=sick. Baby=sick. Only our (ALMOST) 4 year old has escaped the plague that has imposed itself on our home…or brought it home to roost. That’s more likely. We’re not sick in this picture, but apparently my husband is not into fun, we look like crap self-portraits. So I put up this one, in which… Read More
I Made These
Sometimes I cannot believe that I made these two boys. That they are so different but so alike. That I ever didn’t have them in my life. Sometimes I cannot believe that these two are really mine. So lucky am I.
My Jealousy List
A few years ago, I was feeling really jealous. I felt like every person in my life was achieving and succeeding and I was sitting, stagnant. I had done the marriage thing, I had done two university degrees, I’d done a bit of travelling and a bit of volunteering. I had a steady job and a house. I mean, I… Read More
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