Archive for July, 2009
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
Vancouver is under an unusual (and frankly, quite unbearable) heat wave. The air is so still that the sky is getting hazy from the pollution. We are beating all sorts of records. It's not often, here, that you get temperatures in the 30s for one or two weeks in a ...
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Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
Zakary's great-aunt, whose life we celebrated last Thursday, passed away one month shy of her 90th birthday and a few days before her 66th wedding anniversary. The elderly couple lived in an assisted living facility where they had their own apartment and were relatively self-sufficient. Although a bit slower than ...
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Monday, July 27th, 2009
We had to go to Kelowna on an unplanned trip last week. Zakary's great-aunt passed away and on Thursday, her birthday, we attended a celebration of her life. Our son did us proud: we were able to stay for the whole ceremony and he only made a few loud comments ...
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Now that I've been back to work for almost a year, I'm ready to come clean. The real division of labor in a house is not between man and woman, but between the person who stays home and the person who works. When I went back to work, I thought ...
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Monday, July 20th, 2009
Saturday night, we put our son to bed and went back to other occupations. Zak was doing dishes, I was at the computer. All of a sudden, I heard a small voice that sounded an awful lot like that of my son. I figured it was neighbor's kid in the ...
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Thursday, July 9th, 2009
Tidbit of conversation to show how defiant our soon-to-be 2-year-old is becoming:
- No, Baby, you cannot play with that, I say as I place (the phone, a kitchen knife, my friend's iPod - it must have happened a 100 times with 100 different things) higher, thinking it's now out of ...
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Thursday, July 9th, 2009
After two weeks in Quebec, we are back in Vancouver today. We had a wonderful time, although we're glad to be back home. It was great to see my extended family, some of whom read this blog so it was weird because they knew a lot of things about my ...
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