Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 20th, 2009
Dinner last night was sauerkraut and sausages, made with C’s grandmother’s old Lithuanian recipe. Very yummy. But please note Monkey Boy’s contribution on the left. Garlic bread and macaroni. Also quite delicious.
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 19th, 2009
This is very, very hard. I haven’t been sure how much to make public; I tend to keep my personal stuff very close, partly due to fears of being judged. But I think that writing about things is going to be a big part of the journey I’m now on, and possibly really [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 21st, 2008
For Monkey Boy’s birthday in June we gave him a little kitchen. The little fridge and stove were mine as a child (my Grandad made them for me), and we bought a set of pots and pans, as well as the Melissa & Doug Cutting Food Set. We also included a hand-me-down plastic [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 17th, 2008
I am a perfectionist. I am also a procrastinator, and if there was ever a combination guaranteed to drive you to the loony bin, it’s that.
I either put off things and hate myself for not being able to get them perfect when I rush to do them at the last minute, or I never [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 16th, 2008
Monkey Boy and I drove out to the Farm this afternoon to pick up our vegetables (couldn’t go on Tuesday). We walked out to the car, I lifted him onto the seat, and he crawled into his car seat. It was then that I noticed it.
No shoes.
I forgot to put shoes on my [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 6th, 2008
I love a child’s imagination. Every day I’m amazed by the extent of Monkey Boy’s. Remember Bidgie? Well Bidgie is still hanging around, and has been joined by Babo, Petey, DeeDee and Mabou. I have no idea where these names come from (except the last one…it’s a town in Cape Breton [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 14th, 2008
Yesterday a friend came over and we spent the day canning a bushel of peaches. Yes, an entire bushel!
It took awhile.
A couple of weeks ago I spoke to a vendor at our local market about canning, who offered me his peach ’seconds’ at twenty dollars a bushel. Can’t beat that price! And [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 26th, 2008
I have missed our farm fresh veggies so much over the last two weeks. And for more reasons than just taste. If I ever needed proof of just how far we’ve come in changing our eating habits, the two weeks in Nova Scotia were it.
We stayed at my in-laws, and their cupboards look [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 4th, 2008
Do you ever worry that it’s the idea of something, rather than the something itself that interests you? I have so many fantasies and ideas of how I want to live my life, but I seem to have a problem when it comes to actually living it. I prefer to read and dream [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 31st, 2008
Did you ever have one of those days where you spread chaos wherever you go?
So far today I have:
Bounced Monkey Boy’s head off a door frame
Opened a car door into Monkey Boy’s face
Played “push our foreheads together” with Monkey Boy in the grocery cart, then straightened up without realising how hard he was pushing against [...]