Up here, all the kids sleep in one room – it has two bunk beds against the walls, with the heads up against each other. Last night, we also had the neighbour’s kid sleep over, so all the beds were full. Putting kids with different bedtimes to bed in the same room can be [...]
Archive for December, 2006
Maya’s mitzvah
Posted in knitting, parenting on December 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
holiday bits
Posted in holidays, knitting on December 30, 2006 | 1 Comment »
We have an artesian well up here (that means it is really, really deep), but it turns out it was no match for 12 people and a defective toilet. The well ran dry. It took a day to return, so now my father-in-law is nervous about the water supply. This means that this morning we [...]
Ouch
Posted in Kids, holidays on December 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
If it occurs to anyone out there to go snowshoeing when there is only an inch or so of snow on the ground just as an adventuresome why to go for a winter walk in the woods … don’t. The whole inexperienced gang went out, but I put my shoes on last and the rest [...]
Snowy happiness!
Posted in christmas, holidays on December 26, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Snow! It snowed. Just like Mary said happened last time, it snowed on Boxing Day. I’m sitting, looking out the big front windows at piles of fluffy snow everywhere, just like in the pictures below of the road. We had a great pile of ski-crazy children wake up happy this morning.
I am now sitting in [...]
Ode to snow, where ever you may be
Posted in holidays on December 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I’m sneaking in a moment or two to write while getting ready to go up north. ‘Up north’ is what we call my in-law’s cottage in the Laurentians. We go there pretty much every summer and winter holiday. It is idyllic, with a little private beach one minute’s walk away that is perfect for swimming [...]
Computers and bad mothers
Posted in Kids, parenting on December 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I tried to post this yesterday, but my computer was acting up. It is only a hint of what I’m going to be going through in the next couple of weeks using the dreaded dial-up while at the cottage.
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My kids’ lastest obsession are Webk*nz. It is a smart idea – a stuffed animal that [...]
yak, yak, yak, yak, yak, yak, yak
Posted in Kids, parenting on December 20, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Isn’t she cute? She’s driving me nuts. She won’t stop talking. I wouldn’t care if she didn’t require a response, but she does. Every comment – “I’m drawing a pink flower now,” or “I like this blue marker better than this one” – gets repeated until I respond. She’s just like her [...]
Assembly hell, spam hell, tooth hell
Posted in Kids, parenting on December 19, 2006 | 4 Comments »
I’ve now spent Friday and Monday mornings attending assemblies, of a sort, for my kids’ schools, in celebration of the holidays. On Friday, it was at the big kids’ school, where Maya did an Israeli dance. At least, that is how it was billed. It mostly just looked like a kid of hip-hop sort of [...]
For my boy
Posted in Kids, parenting on December 18, 2006 | 1 Comment »
As I mentioned earlier, Asher’s big gift this year was a purple lightsabre, to go along with his red/blue one, green one and double-sided one. He likes lightsabres. He likes Star Wars.
When he got his first one, I wrote about it in my column. In an odd way, I consider it a love letter to [...]
Why are Jews messing up the holidays
Posted in christmas, judaism on December 17, 2006 | 3 Comments »
For those of you who don’t write blogs, I should explain something. I have a page that tells me how many people look at each post (not who, just how many) and if I have new comments. It also tells me how people reach my site – what link they click on or search string [...]
