Archive for October, 2008
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Last night, Zak was doing some dishes and supper was ready, so I grabbed the pan full of "lazy lasagna" in the oven and took it to the table after, of course, dutifully covering my hands with oven mitts. My son followed me, then ran back to the kitchen and ...
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
Today, Zak baked some cinnamon buns.
He also bakes cookies, cakes, crisps, brownies, pies... Oh, and he makes ice cream too!
Last week, he baked some garlic bread. From scratch.
For a girl like me, who comes from a family where cakes were baked only for birthdays and cookies came from the store ...
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Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
Last night was the election, and for a while it looked like the Conservatives were going to have a majority government. In the end they didn't, but the fact is, noone wants an election for the next two years at least, so the Conservatives will be able to do whatever ...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
Today we visited a patch of countryside less than 30 minutes away from our bustling city: the Country Pumpkin Patch, in Richmond. We had a wonderful time with some friends of ours despite the fact that there is some room for improvement.
First, their Website doesn't work... Except when it does. ...
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Saturday, October 11th, 2008
Today, our son was happy. It's only when Zakary mentioned how it had been a while since he had been that giggly that I realized how crappy his mood had been lately. In the last two weeks, he started being fussy at mealtime because he wanted to eat by himself ...
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
The Canadian election is coming and I have a harder time than I wish deciding who to vote for.
I WILL vote. That much is certain. I don't understand how some people can pass up the right to vote as if this was some unimportant chore that someone else can do ...
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
Every day, I am amazed by my son's expending brain activity. His vocabulary is growing at the speed of light: to the early words like more, bike, ball, chapeau, maman and bye-bye, he has now added things like casque, book, tortue (we have a stuffed turtle that he likes), fish, ...
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