Hope you had a good holiday break. Our was lots of fun, and quite special as it was our first Christmas in our new home. I got some important things done, like sending out my resume—and yes, I will be working as a homeschool facilitator next year! And we started holding family meetings (which have [...]
This Thursday is Remembrance Day in Canada, a day in which we remember and thank those who have served in Canada’s armed forces, in both wartime and peacekeeping duties. Many other countries hold a similar day of remembrance on November 11th, marking the formal end of WWI on the 11th hour of the 11th day [...]
Have a safe and fun Halloween, those who celebrate it. You might enjoy doing some online jack-o-lantern carving with your kids on this site. We’ve been using this at Halloween for at least 3 years now. Here’s what Jim and the boys spent the day doing: And the mastermind behind it all:
On Saturday we attended part of the celebrations at our local library’s 40th birthday. (Hmmm…another 40th birthday just passed too! ). We went for the “carnival magic show” part, and it was excellent. He was a very good magician, with lots of jokes and humour, and spur of the moment other talents came to light, [...]
After spending a couple hours in the hot sunshine at the bug class, we slowly headed back to the car. En route, I saw some interesting birds, like this spotted sandpiper: When we got back to the hotel, we went for a swim. This was our first time staying at this hotel in Edmonton (the [...]
On our weekend trip to Edmonton for Daegan’s birthday, we took in an Insect class for families at Devonian Gardens, about 15 minutes SW of the city. Daegan and Jim have done classes in this series before, but this was Gareth’s first time—and mine—and was he ever excited! We all had a good time, but [...]
My eldest son, Daegan, turned 8 today. We went away for the weekend to Edmonton, where we took in a bug class, swam (and swam, and swam!) in the hotel pool, ate delish veggie food, and generally enjoyed ourselves (more in another post). Upon our return this afternoon, Jim made Daegs a birthday cake—German chocolate [...]
This afternoon the men headed out to do some Mother’s Day shopping, and gave me the gifts as soon as they got home. A bit early, sure, but what’s not to like? And apparently there are even more things coming in the mail next week. Woot! The boys helped Jim pick out some flowers, which [...]
For Easter this year, the boys had a riddle egg hunt. The riddles led them from one egg to another around the house, and finally to the cache of Easter gifts. The riddles were prehistoric themed—the “Easter Bunny” (not me!) created them, which was so appreciated! Here’s the pics and riddles: Inside the egg was [...]
Last night we watched the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver with our boys. Overall, I thought it was very well done. It showed the diversity of people, language, culture and landscape that it is Canada—and the underlying respect, gratitude, tolerance and quiet pride many of us feel who live here. Not that [...]