Archive for November, 2007
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 ...
Posted in Family life | 1 Comment »
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 | 116 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 »
Thursday, November 15th, 2007
Ever since I moved to Vancouver, I've been amazed at how whiny people here are about the weather. I thought people in Montréal were whiny, and true, they are: every year, the first snow storm or cold spell makes the news and people act like they didn't expect it to ...
Posted in Rant | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
Using cloth diapers is not as complicated as people may think, but there are a lot of things to think about and when you have never seen anyone use them, it can certainly be intimidating at first. So here is a summary of what it has been like for us.
We ...
Posted in Environment, Family life, Gear, Resources | 2 Comments »
Sunday, November 11th, 2007
I was 22 the first time I really celebrated Remembrance Day. Born and raised in Québec, I had to go all the way to BC to find out that this rainy day of November which, for me, was merely a day off, had a lot of significance for a whole ...
Posted in Miscellaneous, Rant | 3 Comments »