Archive for 2007
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
One of my purest joys since the birth of my son has been to watch my husband take care of him. Not because it allows me to rest (which is also nice), but because the conversations they have are probably the most entertaining thing I have ever heard.
Our baby is ...
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
I know, this blog has been awfully quiet for the last little while. The problem is, my 4-month-old son has decided to stop sleeping. He used to be a pretty good sleeper: at 2 months old, he would sleep from 9 to 3, then from 3:30 to 6:30 or 7... ...
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Sunday, December 2nd, 2007
For most Canadians at this time of the year, this would hardly be newsworthy. But for us living in Vancouver, the snow that has been falling for 2 days is just short of amazing! We rarely get more than a few days of temperatures below freezing here during the whole ...
Posted in Family life, Outdoors | 1 Comment »
Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Danielle, cousine blogueuse, m'a mise au défi de répondre à une série de questions qui lui ont été envoyées par une autre blogueuse. Étant nouvelle dans la blogosphère, je ne connaissais pas ce petit jeu qui me fait un peu trop penser aux chaînes de lettres, mais comme ça ne ...
Posted in Français, Miscellaneous | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Have you ever stopped to think how much of a difference a year can make in a life?
A year and 10 days ago, one of my husband's sperms randomly collided with my egg. We had no clue it was happening. We were not planning on having a baby - we ...
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
I have been delaying writing a follow-up post to "I’m sorry, why is there lead in my dinnerware?" for a while, however after hearing last week a very unsettling news report out of Utah, in which a toddler may have suffered lead poisoning in utero and from breast milk due ...
Posted in Environment, Less toxic, Resources | 127 Comments »
Friday, November 16th, 2007
One of my uncles just died of cancer, leaving behind 4 children. The youngest is 15 years old... Another of my uncles has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. And one of Zakary's uncles passed away last week of ALS (amyothrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease).
It is sad, of course, ...
Posted in Family life | 5 Comments »