SubscribeThe past few days have been some of the hardest I’ve ever been through. It really honestly felt like we were being punished for something we didn’t know we had done, and the one facing the brunt of it was our innocent little Schnauzer. (If you want to know what happened, it’s all here) This [...]
Category: Personal
What happened
On Sunday night we woke up and something was wrong. We thought it was a seizure because he had had seizures before. When Joe realized that he wasn’t walking properly, he took him to the emergency vet. I stayed at home with the baby and waited. And waited. And waited. By 4 am Joe was [...]
Marriage
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Joe and I make a great team. He has the ideas and I have the follow-through. He has optimism to match my pessimism. He forces me forward when I feel as though I can’t move. And in a crisis he is big picture and I am [...]
Live
Yesterday the baby and I went to the weekly Stars and Strollers movie at our local theatre. I was in a bit of a rush and didn’t realize until the movie started that the theatre I had arrived at right on time was showing Eat, Pray, Love. I was expecting to see Nanny McPhee Returns. [...]
My puppy chose me
I’ve been thinking a lot about our dog lately, mainly because he’s been acting strangely. He’s always acted strangely, really, but since the baby arrived he’s had a tough time adjusting. He used to be the centre of our attention. Laps were his for the taking, he could cuddle with either of us any time [...]
Idle hands
I love being a mother. Last night I had maybe 5 hours sleep, and as I sit here with a big cup of coffee and I look over at her and it’s possible I feel even more love. I love spending time with her, I love teaching her new things, I love that our schedule [...]
One more post
This post is my own response to the challenge my husband posed to several bloggers: What if you could only write one more post? What would you want to say? For more information on the thought experiment or to read other people’s theoretical “last posts,” check out If you could only write one more post. Whether I’m [...]
Growing up
I grew up in Ottawa. I was born here and I didn’t leave until I was 20. I’ve moved away five times and it never stuck. The closest I came to home outside of Ottawa was when I went to college in Belleville. When I was a kid I had big dreams of traveling around [...]
Title of post
I used to be a fiction writer. I still have stories that I wrote before I could really write that my mother saved for me. I find them particularly amusing because they’re very short and they were printed out on our old dot matrix with clip art for illustrations. When I was in high school [...]
Not a valid opinion
Two days ago I read, along with a lot of women I talk to, the AOL article about Shaquan Duley. I read Her Bad Mother’s reaction and I read the open letter to a so-called expert on Pretty Babies. I’ve let it sit for two days that this women, a criminal profiler that should never [...]
