January is severely kicking my butt. I visited with a friend yesterday — who also suffers from depression that is worst in January — and it was so good to talk with her and find that we are so similar in our crazy, meaning that I’m not the only one who’s, as she put it, [...]
Liliana: “Mama, today is a sad day. Cienna is moving away.” Me: “Well that’s too bad. Where is she moving?” Liliana: “I don’t know. Somewhere. Maybe China.” Me: “Oh really?” Liliana: “Do we live in Canada?” Me: “Yes.” Kaylie: “Canada is the second-biggest country in the world. Russia is the biggest. And the smallest is [...]
We have been having the most amazing winter this year. Whereas last year at this time we were battling temperatures that dipped below -30C/-22F, today it was 5C/41F. Almost shorts-type weather! I thought I heard somewhere that this was supposed to be the coldest winter in 20+ years, but apparently whoever said that was wrong. [...]
“Okay, two more runs and then it’s time to go home.” “Three more times!” “Two more times.” “Three more times!” “One more time.” “Two more times!” “Okay.”
When the girls’ winter break started, I told them we’d do lots of fun things while they were off school, one of them being sledding. There wasn’t much snow on the ground, so we waited for it to snow. And we waited. And then it snowed about half a centimetre a couple days ago and [...]
