Posted in Ultimate, baby, friends & family on Jul 6th, 2010
A weekend of ultimate with two kids is, as one might expect, a little crazy. Amelia seemed to have a great time playing with the other children who were on the sidelines. On Saturday she mostly played with our friends’ two boys. Amelia and their younger son, who is two and a half, spent a [...]
Posted in friends & family on May 31st, 2010
Yesterday I attended a memorial service for a friend who recently died of breast cancer. To many Montrealers, she was the doctor who saved Saku Koivu’s eye. But we’ve known her for a dozen years or so through the ultimate community. She was a bright, beautiful, caring, funny person who embodied the “spirit of the [...]
Posted in Giveaway, friends & family on May 16th, 2010
It is easy to take health for granted when you don’t know any different. But spend a few minutes reading the story of a bright little girl named Kate, the daughter of a friend and former teammate, and everything will be put in perspective. Kate’s mom is an incredibly strong woman and I am in [...]
Posted in baby, friends & family on May 11th, 2010
You forget how adorable and snuggly babies are until you hold one all day long. And Clara Jane is so sweet. So far she has been nothing but pure joy. She eats and sleeps as well as can be expected for a 1.5-week old. She’ll sleep 2-3 hour stretches at a time, and has done [...]
Posted in Books, Giveaway, baby, friends & family on May 5th, 2010
And now we are four. Clara Jane arrived on April 30, 2010 at 4:20 pm, five days past her due date. I was scheduled for induction on May 3 but since there was a slight deceleration in Clara’s heart rate during my non-stress test on Friday morning, the doctors decided it would be better to [...]
Posted in baby, friends & family on Apr 12th, 2010
the arrival of baby #2! Most of what needs to be done is done. Clothes are washed. Things are put away. The house is somewhat clean and the freezer has some food in it ready to go. There are a million more things that could be done but I’m happy with how ready we are [...]
Posted in Books, baby, friends & family on Mar 2nd, 2010
One of my favourite books as a kid (or at least one I remember most vividly) was Judith Viorst’s Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Even though the illustrations are black and white, Amelia loves it too and often pulls it off the shelf for us to read. Today I think [...]
Posted in friends & family, musings on Feb 20th, 2010
Every time my mom comes over she always brings a bag filled with things. Usually there is food. Sometimes there is mail from New York, or some pictures, or stickers for Amelia or my mom’s latest knitting creation. The last time she came over she brought a slim volume called The Beauty of Motherhood: Selected [...]
Posted in baby, friends & family on Jan 25th, 2010
In a rather spur-of-the-moment decision, a few weeks ago we decided to take a vacation and we booked a trip to Florida. We randomly selected the South Seas Resort on Captiva Island, in part because there was a direct flight from Montreal to Fort Myers (35 miles away). Amelia had a blast on her first [...]
Posted in Photos, baby, friends & family on Jan 1st, 2010
Curious about what cousin Tommy is doing. Reading Where’s Spot? with Babu. Off for a ski with Mama and Babu in the sled. Making pizza dough with Gram.