Where does your 68 year old mother like to shop? My Mom’s a pretty typical grandmotherly/motherly type. She bakes cookies, knits sweaters, sends cheques for Rissa’s RESP. Rissa has a cute pet name for her. She calls her Mor Mor,which means ‘mother’s mother,’ in Danish. My Mom has a grey pixie cut and shops at…
I know… I know… I just ranted about this. However…. What I saw over the past weekend warranted an update. So… picture something similar to this, but with 6-10 year old girls wearing special-ordered versions of this inflatable costume and dancing to…. BIG GIRLS DON’T CRY I’ll give you a moment and let that sink…
Says Rissa. This morning, Rissa experiences our friend Leslie’s homemade jam for the first time. She has two pieces of toast – each sporting Leslie’s gourmet jam. Strawberry balsamic on one, peach bourbon vanilla bean on the other. She sits for a moment in front of her plate of toast. “I am about to have…
Toms and Kittens, Strays and Collared, the Curious and the Curiouser… Step right up!!! We welcome you to the Best, the Brightest the most BREATHTAKING of playgrounds! A veritable CAT CARNIVAL! Mainzer Cat Circus circa 1950s Never in your cat lives have you experienced such Magic, such Mayhem, such MAGNIFICENCE!!! Stare for hours at…
It didn’t really come as a surprise that it’s dirty. The basement, I mean. Seeing as its floor is comprised of dirt and gravel. And seeing as the foundation leaks a titch, it should also have come as no suprise that the dirt part of the basement has a tendency towards muddy after a…
It’s spring. Honest-to-God, grass-greening-up spring. Warmer air, buds on the trees and… cats. The cats are outside once more. Lazing on sidewalks in sunbeams, trotting up to you when you “puss-puss-pussssss…”, rolling around on their backs, begging for a tummy rub. There I am, walking back from the bank – I’d already had my cat…
Certain things become apparent only AFTER you have moved into your new home. It comes down to this: Love is blind. When you fall in love with your new place, its character, its quaintness, its nooks and crannies – you have blinders on. With these ‘in love’ blinders, you can see no faults. It is…
These girls are 9 So there I was… watching the baby sluts dance… It was not, as might be inferred, the END OF DAYS – nope, that wasn’t it. Dance competition season had begun. The last time I endured this was 5 years ago, when Rissa did a couple of group numbers at the age…
I’d been holding back the hypervintilation for most of the morning. I’d stepped over and around things – did the Stanley meeting Livingstone in my bedroom as I finally located a pair of tights, pried open the vanity drawer that didn’t have its handle, because it STILL needs another coat of paint before the handle…
We have an indoor/outdoor basement in our new home. Built in the mid-to-late 1800s, the cellar sports a gravel and dirt floor, parts of which are in various states of damp depending on how quickly the snow is melting. The cats are… ecstatic. As indoor cats, their new proximity to ‘outdoors’ has them doing their…