Asher is an aspiring fiddle player. He had one teacher he loved, so of course she moved across the county after a year. We found another and he didn’t love her so much. Then we spent a year letting him recover from the crappy teacher and me recover from him and looking for a good [...]
Archive for September, 2008
fiddling around
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged children, fiddle, music lessons on September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
maya is my favourite child
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blogging, Kids on September 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I love maya the best. My other children just can’t live in her path. she’s just to amazing. maya is everything i have ever wanted. asher has his ups and downs boo has her downs and ups. but maya just has ups. she is the smartist in the family. she is perfect. we got a dog for ashers birthday but [...]
Who is that fat lady in the mirror?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bad mom, dinner, mothering, Terminator movies on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I went to physiotherapy today for my hip. I don’t know if I have complained about my hip here yet. It’s just one damn thing after another, anyway. The hip hurts. The doctor thinks it is tendonitis so off I went to physio. It was a bit depressing giving the nice, perky young physiotherapist my [...]
Rambling
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Kids, rainbow magic, reading, shofar on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When I picked up the kids yesterday, Maya informed me that in one of her classes, the rabbi was talking about the shofar. This is a ram’s horn which is blown during Rosh Hoshanah and Yom Kippur. It sounds kind of like a rough trumpet. The rabbi asked the class what the sound of the [...]
This, then that
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged balloon animals, birthday parties, fisherman's knit, knitting, mittens, thrumming, trampolines, wool on September 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
We had Boo’s birthday party today. She’s been 6 for almost a month. I’m not actually completely unable to get it together (actually, I am, but this isn’t part of the proof). We just like to have her party in September, when people are actually around. As it was, it was a fairly small party [...]
Oh, here she goes again
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged American election, Canadian election, elections, politics, voting on September 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Politics. It’s oh-so-much fun to be a Canadian these days, because we not only can amuse ourselves with the American election, but we have one of our very own going on too.
There four candidates running in our riding. A Conservative one, a Liberal one, an NDP and a Green. There might be more. I’m always [...]
Back to school fun fun fun
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged back to school, clothes, Kids, school, shoes, shopping on September 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
We survived another curriculum night. Do all schools have these? Each teacher from each class gets about 15 minutes to tell us all about the upcoming year. Since our kids also take Jewish stuff, it’s quite a list. Maya’s classes, if I remember correctly, are: English, French, Hebrew, Jewish history, Jewish ethics, Science, Geography/History, Torah [...]
Mariane Pearl
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Daniel Pearl, Mariane Pearl, terrorism, journalism, Jew, 9/11 on September 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Oh, so much going on. And no time. And no laptop. It died. Thank you in advance for your condolences. I’m coping okay and each day it gets a little easier.
Anyway, yesterday I dressed up like a real girl (almost – I wore loose, flowy pants instead of a skirt or dress; there are limits) [...]
Climbing the walls
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged climbing, Kids, wall-climbing on September 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday, we went back to the wall-climbing place I wrote about before, and this time I brought the camera. Here’s a photo of Boo half-way up the wall. I like this one because of the juxtaposition of her and the big guy next to her.
She’s at the top.
They also had a ‘cave’ where you can [...]
Omnivore’s meme
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged food, meme, omnivore on September 6, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Here’s a meme I liberated from Yogamum. It’s a list of 100 different foods you say if you’ve tried, or never will eat. I see that it comes originally from a blogger in the UK, which explains the number of Indian items on it. And by Indian, I mean East, not American. There are, as [...]
