March 4, 2010
- Almost Spring
By Beck
Last night we went to the library at 7 p.m. and I found something disconcerting the whole way - which was, I realized, that it was still not dark out. Spring! (…)
February 25, 2010
- Trees
By Beck
Last week's post here was a doozy. And yes, it IS sad that our children's childhoods are so fleeting from our perspective, that our pretty children do not stay. (…)
February 18, 2010
- The End
By Beck
I've started - I noticed today with a little shock of possibly amusement - started watching for mentions of families with children older than mine. (…)
February 11, 2010
- My Valentine
By Beck
I am planning on making chocolate cake this weekend - a mocha cake with multiple layers of buttercream frosting. (…)
February 4, 2010
- Sickly
By Beck
This week saw some Medical Excitement for me - I phoned the local clinic, because I'd had severe chest pains for several days and my ARM had gone numb and that was it, I was having a heart attack, and the local clinic was like GO TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM RIGHT NOW so I did. (…)
January 28, 2010
- Paring
By Beck
The phone rang very early this morning, which made me reach for it with that feeling of impending doom. What horror would I hear?
It was my daughter's best friend. (…)
January 21, 2010
- The Family Face
By Beck
I posted one of the super-rare pictures of my kids yesterday, because it was my son's birthday and he asked me, wistfully, why I never put pictures of him on my blog. (…)
January 14, 2010
- Everything Must Go
By Beck
Recently it has been very very very obvious that puberty is lurking right around the corner in my house. (…)
December 31, 2009
- The Best Of A Bad Year
By Beck
It is THE LAST DAY! I am so excited!
And that excitement has made me feel unexpectedly generous towards the old year. (…)
December 17, 2009
- Busy
By Beck
It is very, very early in the morning. I am up and writing because I have so much planned for today that this - this time of day I normally use for sleeping - is the only time I have to write. (…)
December 10, 2009
- Worried Birds
By Beck
It was a snow day yesterday, which meant that my oldest child was home from school and that I declared a house-wide break from all schoolwork and THIS meant that I spent all day listening to my kids fight and by the end of the day I was making mental lists of other careers I might possibly consider. (…)
December 3, 2009
- All is calm, all is well
By Beck
It's suddenly snowy and my house is covered in a crazy, Clark Griswald amount of Christmas lights and we play Christmas music all day long, of course, and there is one Christmas song that makes me have to retreat and cry EVERY time I hear it. (…)
November 26, 2009
- Merry And Bright
The first Sunday of Advent is THIS WEEKEND! Well, that was fast.
I love everything about the Christmas season - I love singing carols and wrapping presents and drinking eggnog (sometimes. (…)
November 19, 2009
- Science
By Beck
"This year has been awful!" I said to my husband last night - mid-asthma attack - and he laughed in a sad sort of way.
We've had money problems. (…)
November 5, 2009
- Things I'd Never Even Heard Of
By Beck
So yesterday we took the kids to get their flu shots. There wasn't a lot of debate about it - two of our three kids are in a high-risk group for flu complications AND they get everything. (…)
October 22, 2009
- Footsteps
By Beck
I've been writing about Halloween every day recently - or more accurately, I've been attempting to write tongue-in-check horror posts about children's books. (…)
October 15, 2009
- Trick Or Treat
By Beck
"I want to be a jellyfish for Halloween," The Baby announced, which only gave me a moment's pause.
Okay! I said. Be a jellyfish. That would be awesome. (…)
October 8, 2009
- Thankful
By Beck
Canadian Thanksgiving is this upcoming weekend. (…)
October 1, 2009
- The First Day of October
By Beck
Autumn was at its peak last weekend, and we drove down a country road surrounded by 100 year old farmsteads and red orange yellow leaves on trees and Mennonite boys in straw hats chasing sheep down hills turning gold with the cold fall sweeping in and taking all of the leaves away. (…)
September 24, 2009
- Reading
By Beck
My oldest child loves to read, which is pretty pleasing to me. I've always been bookish and one of the things that I wanted for my kids was for them to love reading, too. (…)
