Monthly Archives: April 2008

From diaper bag to purse…

I can’t deny missing a purse.  My diaper bag is extremely awesome, in my opinion, but it’s not a purse.  It’s bigger.  Way bigger.  Diaper bags, by design, carry mountains of supplies, snacks and toys, and I’ ve only owned purses that I could barely fit a wallet and some gum into.  I liked them...

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Hi ho, hi ho….

Through a series of completely fortunate events, my maternity leave ended…yesterday – 4 wonderful, beautiful, much-too-short months after it was supposed to.  And today, I woke up, got dressed and headed into the office for the first time in 16 months, almost to the day. One of the redeeming factors is that the office I...

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More milestones.

Today we saw another first as a family.  In the springtime, as a kid, one of my absolute favourite things was to visit Dairy Queen.  Those were the days that actually saw the DQ close over winter, so their OPEN sign lighting up again after all those dreary winter months was a sure sign of...

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Done Deal. Updated.

Well, almost. If it passes the inspection set for Thursday, then we are the proud new owners of a perfect, exactly-what-were-looking for, beautiful house. I’m thrilled. Now we just have to list ours and cross our fingers for a fast sale. *************************************************************************************************************** It’s all ours!  The inspection went swimmingly and there is barely anything that...

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Home for a rest…

The very long-awaited wedding week of 2008 has come and gone. It was so packed with adventures and action, that I’d be hard-pressed to fit it all into one post so I’ll chop it up a little. 1. Most importantly, the wedding was beautiful. I can’t prove it because I have not one photo from...

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Baby Steps.

Being born in the middle of winter, in Canada, has its challenges. One of them involves turning one, learning to walk, and not being able to practice the new skill in the great outdoors. Luckily we went to Virginia a few weeks ago and Jaia got a wee taste of vitamin D, but it wasn’t...

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Ew.

We are watching Charlotte’s Web and it turns out that animated spiders make my skin crawl as much as real ones do.

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