This week I am thinking about swimming, wrapping presents and all the things I need to do in the days leading up to Christmas day…. and that is it! Do you do that too? Plan your life and keep everything going up until a certain date or event, and forget that life continues on after […]
This Week
This week has been a win some, lose some, kinda week… WIN: Strawberry season is finally here and we are picking and eating warm, sweet, berries every day! LOSE: Something is still eating my beans! WIN: It stopped raining and it has even been been warm and sunny most of this week! Time to do […]
This Week
This week I have been trying so hard to catch up, and really wishing I was on top of things. I feel like I am constantly chasing my tail, and while I conveniently blame our week without internet at home, really it is more to do with being far too busy and procrastinating far too […]
This Week
This week we went from glorious warm sunny weather to freezing cold, wet and miserable. I struggle with the wild changes of weather that happen here at this time of the year. One minute I am out planting beans with my small boy in the sunshine and eating icy-poles on the deck, the next I […]
This Week
This week I watched the preps and grade ones (5 and 6 year olds) practicing their dance for the school performance. They were on the outdoor stage for the first time and they were so excited. “I’m the cat with the base and drum, going round like bom bom bom!” As the music started and […]
This Week
This week has been insane. Back to school, back to dancing, two nights of swimming back to back (a make up class for the one they will miss next week due to the school performance) and back to gym, and that is just the big kid’s schedule! It is an omen of things to come […]
This Week…
This week I’ve been waiting, not so patiently, for the weather to improve. While I waited I did some projects with the kids, played wii dance with abandon, and pondered whether it was still too cold to plant out my seedlings that have gone nuts on the window sill. While I waited, and pondered, there […]
This Week
This week my boy is better. His pants fall down when he walks and he is still falling in a heap tired now and then, but he is better, so much better. So this week I tried to catch up on all the things that I hadn’t gotten done when he was sick. By Monday […]