January 31, 2012

January. The end.

Wascana Lake, Regina, January 2010 A couple days ago, Liliana said to me: “Mama, can you go to my school and ask my teachers to take off the January month and put up the February month?” She is not a fan of January, but for very different reasons than me. She wants it to be [...]

January 16, 2012

hypothetical homicide

“If you were to murder me, how would you do it?” “Poison.” “You thought that up pretty quick.” “I saw it on Bones.” “Would it be quick or slow?” “Probably slow. Or maybe quick. I have to think about this.” “You kind of scare me, you know?” “It would be an untraceable poison.” “And what [...]

January 1, 2012

on resolutions and failure

I have a love/hate relationship with New Year’s Resolutions. I make them, I break them, I feel like a failure. So, this year I am going to make them but I am going to make them not so hard to reach. I wrote myself a list in a notebook and put it in the top [...]

December 3, 2011

grown-ups

Day 3 Reverb Prompt: How did you become more of a grown-up this year? Or did you pull a Peter Pan and stubbornly remain childlike? Oh, this year. It has been a hard one in many ways, but has also been the most incredible as well. Last year Noah and I did something that neither [...]

November 13, 2011

six

So, I promised you a post about our anniversary. I mean, I wanted to write about it, which is why I said I would, but this post almost didn’t happen because Noah went and bought the Settlers of Catan app on Friday and I have been a wee bit addicted. My brother and sister-in-law introduced [...]