Archive for April, 2008
Monday, April 28th, 2008
Today I bought our third stroller. I know, it sounds crazy. But strollers are like shoes: could you pick one pair of shoes that would work for all situations? It would be hard. Same with strollers. We have our Chariot, which we love dearly, a bike trailer/stroller/jogger combo, made in ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
I have to congratulate a neighbour of mine who recently gave birth to a 9,5 pound baby... at home! No epidural, no pain killer of any sort, a completely natural birth.
True, I had a completely natural birth too, but my baby weighed a mere 7 pounds and it was already ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
"They" say that the first six weeks of the life of a baby are the toughest. If you want my opinion, "they" don't know what they're talking about.
My father-in-law came to help us for a few days after our boy was born. My mom stayed with us for two weeks. ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
If killing fruit flies brings bad karma, I'm in for some awful luck. As Sophie wrote earlier, when I opened our balcony worm composter this weekend to feed the little squirmies, I unleashed the wrath of thousands of angry fruit flies. It was not quite Alfred Hitchcock's "The Flies Birds" ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
Yesterday, for the first time in a long while, we managed to get out of the city for a (too) short visit to the boonies. We went with some friends to the George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary, in Delta, to breathe some fresh air and do some bird watching ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
We are dealing with an epidemic of fruit flies. Yesterday, when Zak opened his worm composter, a cloud of flies big enough to swallow an entire house (at least it seemed that way) escaped. Thank God I insisted that the compost stay on the balcony (Zak was inclined to use ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
I am going back to work in less than 4 months now, and although it may seem like it's still ways away, I know it will be over in the blink of an eye given how fast the past 8 months went by and given that we have tons of ...
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