January 23, 2012

moments

I got a call from Liliana’s school on the way to Kaylie’s school this morning (yes, RUSSELL, I pulled over) saying that Liliana’s school was closed today due to a water main break. Liliana was disappointed, I was not. One less time I have to leave the house! Yay! As we sit on the couch [...]

January 20, 2012

in other news

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 [...]

January 18, 2012

little miss creative

Noah called me into Liliana’s room yesterday and I walked in and saw this: (There are actually nine people there, but five of them were drawn with a very light-colored marker. You can see them if you tilt your screen.) “Who drew on the wall, Liliana?” “I don’t know.” “Why did you draw on the [...]

January 3, 2012

sledding in the dark

“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.”

January 2, 2012

No snow? ‘Sno problem.

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 [...]