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Ah, me boys

Happy 2012 to all of you!

31 December 2011 Ah, me boys

I‘ve been having too much fun with the boys to be blogging much through the holidays, but I’ve been missing all of you. I didn’t have anything particularly interesting to say, until I overheard this snippet of conversation just a few minutes ago and thought it was the perfect note on which to end 2011, [...]

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Five great books to read aloud to boys

17 November 2011 Ah, me boys

One of the great pleasures of my day is reading out loud to the boys at bedtime. Beloved and I take turns; one night I’ll read to Lucas and he’ll read to Tristan and Simon, and then we’ll switch. Lately, Tristan and Simon and I have taken to sharing some of the reading – they’ll [...]

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Five reasons why guitar lessons are better than hockey

12 September 2011 Ah, me boys

August was marked by much anxiety about sports. I googled, I asked friends online and IRL, I blogged, I tweeted, I wrung my hands in anxiety. To hockey or not to hockey, that was the compelling question. Do you like how I just turned hockey into a verb? If ‘friend’ can be a verb, so [...]

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In which she accidentally registers her boys for dance camp

10 September 2011 Ah, me boys

I‘m thinking maybe I need a new category for the blog: “Notes for future therapy sessions.” That way, the boys’ future therapists will have an instant body of research from which to draw. You can’t really blame me, though. I mean, I had a COUPON! Like so many of the misadventures in my life, it [...]

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Hockey mom angst

24 August 2011 Ah, me boys

With three boys, it was inevitable that the hockey issue would come up sooner or later. The time I have long dreaded has arrived. One of the boys wants to play hockey. I am totally torn about this. My Official Canadian Parenting Handbook says that any boy child must endure enjoy at least one season [...]

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(Mostly) Wordless Wednesday

20 July 2011 Ah, me boys

We’ve evolved a new vacation tradition in the last few nights between dinner and bed time: the porch Uno tournament. Lucas is old enough to follow the colours and numbers, and to my delight has recently showed his understanding of the “miss a turn” and “change direction” symbols. He doesn’t quite get the idea of [...]

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Hello kitty

18 June 2011 Ah, me boys

It started innocuously enough. (Doesn’t it always?) A friend had a free kitten to give away. We haven’t had cats since the two that came part and parcel with Beloved moved on to that great catnip field in the sky, maybe three and four years ago. But I know Beloved has been pining for one. [...]

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147b:365 Drawing together

19 May 2011 Ah, me boys

174b:365 Drawing together, a photo by Dani_Girl on Flickr. Via Flickr: Tristan often copies drawings from his books, in this case a Pokemon book. I was absolutely charmed this morning when I found Lucas had gone into his room and pulled an Elmo book off his shelf to inspire his own drawings, just like his [...]

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Tristan’s race

16 May 2011 Tristan

A couple of weeks ago, Tristan came home with a permission slip for the running club at school. It said they were preparing for a 5K race in Osgoode, and the kids would be working their way up to the 5k during lunch hours over the next few weeks. Tristan loves to run, and I [...]

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118:365 Laces

22 April 2011 Photography

118:365 Laces, a photo by Dani_Girl on Flickr. (I’d originally posted this on Flickr, but by the time I was finished writing it, it sounded suspiciously like a blog post!) Via Flickr: My oldest is not good with change but even I was surprised by the depth of his aversion to even the most rudimentary [...]

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