Looking for Inspiration

I feel like I need a little help in this – inspiration – department lately. Noah has been sleeping terribly. I lie in bed with him in the middle of the night, pretending to sleep, hoping he will follow my example. He sits beside me saying, “Hi. HI. Hiiii? Hi. Hi. Hi. [...]

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Around Here

This boy adores his dad. He’s more of a Daddy’s boy than any of the other punks were at this age. We can’t walk past Graeme without Toby taking a dive for him. So Graeme’s taking a lot of study breaks to snuggle and tickle and flip around his littlest boy.

Ben with [...]

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Self Portrait

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Something Makes Me Sick

Warning: this post discusses vomit and diarrhea.
I went out with a friend last night. No kids. (But still with that nagging feeling of guilt and concern that I plan to completely discard on May 16th when Grae finishes his last exam!) We went to Chapters. Oh, I love bookstores. Then we were hungry [...]

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Camping Planning

I just sent out the details for the August camping trip. If you didn’t receive it and you feel that I must have missed you in the loop, please let me know. I’ll send you a copy. My apologies if I missed you. I tried to remember everyone. The list [...]

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Snowflake of the Night

Inspiration struck late tonight and Zach just finished this up at 10:30pm. I can’t believe how interested he is in written music now. Yesterday I was at the piano and pointing at Beethoven’s Sonata Pathetique he said, “Can you explain all of this stuff to me?” He asked lots of questions and [...]

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Too Country?

On Saturday evening we took the whole family to Pierre Schryer’s concert in the city. We parked a block away and the boys started trotting along the sidewalk. Gabe stopped in mid stride and exclaimed, “What is that?” He was pointing to a parking meter! Ok… I tried not to laugh [...]

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Lotsa Photos

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Composer

Zach started taking violin lessons when he was four. He hasn’t learned to read music. Here and there I have introduced it, and so did his teacher in Winnipeg. But for the most part he has shown no interest and rather than squelch his love of playing with forcing note-reading, he’s been [...]

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As Promised – McDonald’s Song T-Shirt

I’m not sure exactly when I won this t-shirt, but from the previous post you can see I was wearing it in 1990. I couldn’t have won it the year before because we were living in Big Trout Lake in ‘89. The campaign came out in ‘88 so I must have been ten [...]

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