We have mice in our cold storage room in the basement, and in the closets down there. We keep the extra dog food in a storage closet along with tons of other crap, and when I took out my winter boots, they were filled with dog food. They also got inside the gift I was [...]
Archive for December, 2007
Mousy murder
Posted in Kids, Uncategorized, tagged children, Kids, mice, rambling, traps, vermin, wasps on December 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I wish I had time to read …
Posted in boredom, knitting, reading, tagged knitting, reading on December 22, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Someone said that to me the other day. She claimed that having children made it impossible to read. I told her she’d just not looking at it the right way. Then I told her I read my New Yorker magazine in the shower. I wasn’t kidding.
So, in her honour, when and where I read:
1. In [...]
A cuckoo in the nest
Posted in books, reading, tagged books, reading. kids on December 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Someone just surfed onto my blog using the search string, “tiny whale.” I swear on all my chocolate I have never used the word ‘whale’ in my blog. Until now.
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When Maya was 11 weeks old, a newspaper story came out of two sets of parents in the US who had discovered their sons had been [...]
Holiday Traditions
Posted in christmas, holidays, illness, sickness, snow, winter, tagged holidays, illness, sick, snow, storms, winter on December 18, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Asher is indulging in something I wouldn’t call his favourite holiday tradition, but it certainly is his most common: getting sick.
He likes to mix it up and generally stays away from common, boring illnesses. At 10 months, he developed a raging fever and a red, blotchy rash over most of his body that had every [...]
to sleep …
Posted in Kids, dogs, sleep, snow, snow storm, winter, tagged sleep, snow, storms, winter on December 17, 2007 | 1 Comment »
and dream lots of really weird dreams.
This was my day yesterday: I slept. I hate when that happens.
I seem to have a bit of a cold and coughing kept me up late Friday night, but when J woke me up at almost 10 am, I’d had pretty much 9 hours sleep, which should be enough [...]
She can see!
Posted in Hanukkah, Kids, eyesight, tagged children, eyes, eyesight, girly boys, glasses, Hanukkah, Harrison Ford, Kids, Matthew Perry, Michelle Trachtenberg, Zach Efron on December 12, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Boo had an eye appointment yesterday and it was great. It was almost a year ago that we found out her eyesight was dreadful (the doctor admitted today that when she first came in, she was legally blind). When she first got her glasses, they improved her vision to 20/200. That was the good [...]
Silver Lining
Posted in Kids, cats, children, death, dogs, golden doodle, golden doodles, kittens, life, pets, snow, winter, tagged cats, dogs, golden doodles, Kids, life, pet death, pets, snow, winter on December 8, 2007 | 3 Comments »
It was one of those perfect winter days today, where the snow fell in big, slow flakes and made everything look beautiful. There was no wind and it was mild. I took Jasper for a long walk, then got the kids and when we got home, Asher and Boo played outside for a long time [...]
Doggie cuteness
Posted in cats, dogs, golden doodle, pets, tagged cats, dog training, dogs, golden doodles, pets on December 2, 2007 | 5 Comments »
and kitty badness.
Doesn’t she look sweet? She is, mostly. She loves to cuddle up and smush her face into my hair. She likes to crawl under the blanket with me and snuggle under there on my chest.
She also loves to chew on string, cords, anything long and skinny. She’s chewed cords off blinds, neatly snipped [...]
