There have been many goings on in our little corner and this blog has become so very neglected. Today is Monday :: the perfect day to get back on track! Earlier this month, Kirtana turned 7 and her birthday sort of morphed into a birthday week and beyond! I think she’s partied out for the time being which is a good thing for this tired mama. Right after those extended celebrations, both kids were involved with this year’s Remembrance Day activities…. Read more »
Posts Categorized: Rambling
Learning Curves
Ah September, I expected you to be so very different! Sigh!! What should have been the first day of school filled with the excitement of seeing all their friends, exchanging summer stories, getting locker assignments, and meeting teachers, our kids were greeted with the unfortunate news that the teachers’ union in our province declared a full-scale strike 🙁 So, September began with no school and this continues indefinitely! I decided to take the glass half full approach and told the kids that we… Read more »
Snippets
We’re heading out to the Oregon Coast in a couple days, so I’m writing this post in-between loads of laundry! Like many others worldwide, we ventured out to catch a glimpse of the August supermoon. It was lovely, but the sunset before that was even more spectacular. Too bad we didn’t get any sunset pictures since it was all about the moon that night! While we were waiting for moonrise, we spotted a beaver swimming to his house. I’ve never seen one in the… Read more »
Blush And Cream
I’ve been pretty unwell for over a week now and it hasn’t been fun. I think I’m finally getting over it and almost feel like myself again! With the whole icky, sicky bug thing, I was prescribed a course of antibiotics. And with that, I had almost every side effect that was listed in the fine print. Yes, groan 🙁 I usually crave chicken soup when I’m sick which I think is a comfort thing. This time, with it being so warm, I wanted cool… Read more »
Spring Bunny
Time to put away the warm woolies and dig out the gardening tools, spring is here! I’ve made several trips to the garden center this past week. It’s time to brighten things up and usher in some color! Spring is indoors too with this cute knitted bunny that I recently finished. It took me a whole day of seaming and stuffing all of the little bunny pieces. I should have followed the instructions and stuffed and seamed as I went… Read more »
#touristinmytown
This post brought to you via iPhoneography 🙂 The kids have been on spring break the past two weeks, so it’s been a wonderful time of relaxing and sleeping in 🙂 Monday, is back to school for one last term which is always the busiest one. This lull before the storm was nice! We went on a mini vacation over the weekend, back to the Okanagan Valley. The landscape was such a contrast to how we remember it from the… Read more »
Blogging Anyway
I’ve heard it said that when you don’t know what to blog about, blog anyway. So, here I am blogging anyway 🙂 I’m so thrilled with this kitchen adventure. I found a recipe in an old magazine for lemon curd cheesecake. Just reading the recipe made me drool and so I just had to make it. I went on the hunt for lemon curd and didn’t find any at the store. I did find Ina Garten’s recipe for homemade lemon… Read more »
Remember The Time
My dear friend, Kim, who was battling cancer, passed away on Saturday. We will all miss her terribly. However, she said so many times that we weren’t to dwell on that. She wanted us to remember only the fun, good times. To honor her wishes, we are celebrating her life. She loved people, she was passionate about everything ocean, she made amazing quilt after quilt and was always upto some crazy adventure. Her zest for life was just so contagious…. Read more »
Friday Frivolous
I should be getting my hat done. Actually, I should be finishing our taxes (ugh!) instead, here I am knitting something absolutely frivolous and so much fun! Every year once we get our taxes filed just before D-Day, I vow that I will be better at being organized with next year’s paperwork. And every year I fail miserably! So as a picker-upper, I pulled out Julie’s bunny pattern and some stash yarn and got knitting. Grin 😀 I think Dottie… Read more »
Think Pink
Today is Pink Shirt Day. Click here to read how this tremendous movement came to be. I’m sure most of us have experienced bullying to varying degrees. Bullies aren’t just limited to the school playground. Adults can be bullies too. My first recollection of being targeted was when I was in kindergarten and not by my peers but by my teacher. You see, she was reading us this story about a rag doll and his friend and one of the… Read more »
