From the monthly archives:

July 2007

An ode to boys in the summer time

18 July 2007 Ah, me boys

When I left the house at 6:30 this morning, the boys had already dressed themselves. This is memorable in itself; while Tristan is quite capable, I don’t think Simon has ever fully dressed himself before, and certainly neither of them has done it without considerable prodding and harranguing on our part. But the really cute [...]

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Wherein I give up my eco-principals for convenience

17 July 2007 Life, the Universe and Everything

For a week, we’re a two-car family. We’re watching my parents dog while they’re on vacation, and my mom loaned me her car for the duration. It was my intention to leave the car in the driveway except in case of emergency, but I was going to take the opportunity to switch out the boys’ [...]

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OB versus midwife

16 July 2007 Postcards from my uterus

The week we came back from Bar Harbor, I had been feeling awful. I was so tired I could barely put one foot in front of the other and I just wanted to sleep all day. At the nadir, I found myself standing in the kitchen, half way through throwing together tacos for dinner, wondering [...]

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Order of the Phoenix

15 July 2007 Life, the Universe and Everything

So I don’t usually do movie reviews here, mostly because I don’t see nearly enough movies. And this isn’t exactly a movie review, because it’s not terribly critical. But we went to see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on Friday night, and though Beloved and I have rehashed it to death, I [...]

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High school, 20 years later

13 July 2007 It IS all about me

I saw this over on Andrea’s and Bub and Pie’s blogs, and though it would make a fun Friday brainless meme. I’ve been thinking about high school a bit lately, since I’ve been playing on Facebook. It’s amazing to me that so many people who have signed up to “I graduated CCH in the 1980s” [...]

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"Elephants outstanding"

13 July 2007 Life, the Universe and Everything

Some items from the newspaper are just too precious to pass by without commenting on them. Apparently, three elephants escaped from the Garden Bros Circus in Newmarket, Ontario (near Toronto) and went on a 3 am stroll through suburbia. The electric fence penning them in somehow lost power, and when the elephants realized it, they [...]

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Now playing at your neighbourhood grocery store

12 July 2007 Life, the Universe and Everything

I was absolutely fascinated by a recent post of Julie’s over on A little pregnant. She was talking about going into a grocery store in her town and finding that they have carts with television sets embedded into them, so for a dollar your kidlets can watch an episode of The Wiggles or Bob the [...]

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Eight things

11 July 2007 It IS all about me

James tagged me for this, and I’ve been sitting on it for quite a while. Part of it has been the interruption of the vacation and subsequent blogging, but part has been simply because I had a hard time coming up with a list of eight things you don’t already know about me. The Rules: [...]

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Ottawa to Bar Harbor Part 9: Tips for road trips with kids

10 July 2007 Away we go

The end is near. The end of this series, that is. JK Rowling needed seven books to complete her magnum opus; mine will likely run to ten installments by the time I get it all out of my system. And like Rowling, I’m hedging on that. I might need an extra post or two to [...]

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Ottawa to Bar Harbor Part 8: Stalking Stephen King

9 July 2007 Away we go

We left Bar Harbor early on a sunny Saturday morning, with a plan to follow Route 2 back the way we came and stay once again in St Johnsbury, Vermont, for the night. But first we had one special stop planned – and another unexpected one that delayed us for a little bit. We were [...]

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