It's dusk and Elise, aged 3 and 9 months, wants to build a bird's nest to give the baby birds a cozy place to sleep. It's 9:30, well past her bedtime, but we had just had a neighbourhood party. We tell her to hurry and gather the things she needs to make her nest because it's getting dark. With those huge earnest eyes and an excited voice she looks up at Erin, raises her little hand to the sky and says "Ok. Papa, you keep the sky this colour so I can make the nest!"
I heard recently that when your young daughter gets her first crush on a man other than her father, you should write down the qualities of the man and compare it to her lifelong mate when she's older.
Well, here is what my future son in law should be like, according to this theory.
Meet our young neighbour, Jake. He is one of the nicest 12 year old boys I have ever met. Jake eats sleeps and breathes hockey, except when he's playing Lacrosse. He is a goalie. His father supports his...
Every few months I say, "I wanna get fit" and then I come up with a great plan. Last time I bought time at the gym and prepaid for a bunch of classes (bootcamp, etc). I even went for a while to the gym once or twice a week and then a class once or twice a week. And...then...I...slowed...down...and...stopped...going. Grrrr.
So I thought back to the time when I was most fit and realized that I was playing squash, ultimate and doing martial arts. I had tried to find a martial...
For the first time since I have owned a vehicle (first one in 1991), it is parked IN THE FRICKIN GARAGE!!!!
Our first house had an extra long garage; however, we converted half of it into Christine's quiet place and the other half was used for all of our crap.
Our current house has a two car garage, yet we still parked in the driveway. How could we have a TWO car garage and not get our car in it?
We have organized our garage twice before, though we could never get the car in. This time...