If Arden ever decides to publish her memoirs, I think “Learning to sleep in the storm” might be a suitable title. When we go home from the Thursday morning playgroup, it was as blustery out as it has been all winter, and the kid was conked out! She slept outside in a considerable snow flurry…… Continue reading Learning to sleep in the storm

 This is a picture of Charlotte putting on a pair of socks. At 8:30am, it is already her second pair of socks for the day. And, as this is the exact time that we need to leave for school, I am less than impressed with her. She has to change the socks though. One of…… Continue reading Socks and war

I sometimes forget that I haven't been keeping this blog since the beginning. This means that, in a way, some of those wide-eyed wonderment euerka moments that happened at the beginning, have been a little bit lost to time. And while some of those discoveries have endured others have drifted away. Perhaps lost forever perhaps…… Continue reading The finer things in life

Today was Arden's first snow! I'm not sure if she enjoyed it although she certainly didn't complain. Between dropping charlotte at one school, ruby at another and making an extra trip home for the forgotten snack and then back to hippo and finally shoveling the walk We were outside for almost an hour and she…… Continue reading Snow lashes

Alright. Confession time. I'm struggling a bit this morning. It's raining. I the middle of January. Which feels like a total rip off – and has my five year old a little cheesed as well. Because wheres the snow already. But beyond where's the snow it has me thinking about global warming. Because it should…… Continue reading My worries this morning.

mild beef patty. Gone.

After eating the entire streetcar and subway ride there.

Ruby is one of the hungriest people I know. These days, she seems willing to eat just about anything, anywhere. Often it is amusing. Sometimes it is confounding – say – for example when we are in the way to school and she is just Into the stroller and announces “I hungee” after just eating…… Continue reading Hungry nomad

I am beginning to wonder where children get their energy from. For the past 2 nights Ruby has been awake until 10pm and this has not translated to any form of slow down durning the day. And now, at. 4:23am, Arden is happily squawking away under the mobile. The mid morning I'm so happy to…… Continue reading This is my 4:19am face

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