For the first time I tried yarn extensions yesterday on [edit:Spice! oops - wrote the wrong pseudonym!] Yikes - two and a half Disney movies long!!!! ehhh!!! She did sit still the whole time, though. People ask me how they do that - the trick is, it’s the only time they watch TV. So they [...]
I am SUCH a bad blogger! Last week was the third of my cooking classes at Mission Hill. The first class, I managed to take some good pics and made you all insanely jealous. BUT, the second class (Channeling Julia Child) I forgot to take my camera. It was good. You’ll have to take my [...]
To Spring
by William Blake
O thou with dewy locks, who lookest down
Thro’ the clear windows of the morning, turn
Thine angel eyes upon our western isle,
Which in full choir hails thy approach, O Spring!
The hills tell each other, and the listening
Valleys hear; all our longing eyes are turned
Up to thy bright pavilions: issue forth,
And let thy holy [...]
I’m not a beads super-fan, but they did turn out pretty good this week. You learn things from other moms all the time… and I learned if you weight the braids down with more beads, they tend to stay straight and last longer. Who’da thunk…
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Something just for fun!
I was thrilled to hear that a young 22 year old rapper had been named Edmonton’s Poet Lauriate last year. I lived several years in that city, and honestly, have never lived anywhere with as strong of a cultural scene. It’s just great. Anyway, I really like this guy’s music, and his [...]
Any analysis, Auntie Ena?
It’s funny how identical (as far as we know) twins can have such different face shapes. Added to the usual difference, Sugar just shot up another centimetre (yes, that’s added tot he two inches in Dec/Jan!) and Spice is currently sporting a pre–shooting-up rounder face.
Anyway, Sugar always looks fresh and best with her hair back [...]
This kid makes me feel so woefully inadequate! And when I started feeling better that “well, at least he doesn’t know all the lyrics!” - crum. His first language isn’t English. Durn it. He learned to play the uke in three months! Amazing…. What is he, like, four years old?
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Eat your hearts out, prairie folk - we have tulips 4 inches high in our yard. (And the Vancouver people say “so what?” lol!)
But with the Olympics on the tube every night, we felt inspired to spend our day off up on the skihill. Despite Spice’s pleas to ski, we decided they should start off [...]
Seriously, these girls can manage a 4 out of 5 pepper on the pepper scale - I’m like a 1. Or a 2.
You can watch them chomp and talk about spicy food in the video below. Turn it up to hear their thoughts on curry and buffalo wings.
PS: Sugar is back to her regular self [...]
This just gave me mushy eyes when I saw it. Call me a sentimental ole BC Girl.
Our life has got a little weird scheduling-wise lately. I’m still finishing my previous contract and took a new one on for the next month (couldn’t say no - unique opportunity…) so we are squeezing everything. The kid go to preschool for three hours three mornings a week (read mad crazy intense working) but then [...]
Sugar planned her hair style this week - she asked for a braid to come down to her nose!
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She really likes it when they come down near her face, but I’m not that keen on it. So this was the compromise~ Meanwhile, the veil braids on Spice looked great. 40 minutes record on those puppies [...]
After reading Debbie Allen’s Dancing in the Wings (totally great book about an empowered little girl - yes, it’s in my bookstore!) the girls really really wanted to learn how to dance. Spice was actually the keenest, which surprised me, becuase she’s the least coordinated of the two.Â
So I took them to a class in [...]
