Posted in Books, baby, friends & family, home on May 3rd, 2009
Ok, it isn’t exactly summer yet but we have been having warm, sunny weather and have been trying to spend as much time outside as we can. Amelia and I have now made a habit of going to le petit gym for their weekly “bugs” class (4-10 months). It’s nice for Amelia to see other [...]
A few days after I received my first package from Penguin Canada, a second arrived with Elizabeth Noble’s latest work, The Girl Next Door. I haven’t read any other novels by this UK author, but this one was enjoyable enough that I would definitely buy another if I came across it in a bookstore table [...]
Hugh at bookoven tweeted a request for pics of people’s bookshelves. Since we have recently put up the shelves in our bedroom and office, I thought I’d snap a few pics with the iPhone to add to our collection of house photos. Here are some of our bookshelves (bedroom, office, dining room and baby’s room).
Here are pics of the ground floor. You can see our somewhat lame attempt to put some art on the walls (ok two walls) so it doesn’t look like we just moved in. View from the front entryway up the stairs. View from the front entryway towards the kitchen. View from the back of the [...]
Here are some pics of the upstairs — my office, master bedroom, Amelia’s room and the guest room, as well as the hallway. (Upstairs hall looking from the back of the house towards the front). All the doors on the left go to closets (3!) and the doors on the right go to the bathroom, [...]
Posted in Photos, baby, friends & family, home on Dec 23rd, 2008
I generally don’t buy Ian anything techno-geeky for presents since he knows better than I what is out there and what is good/bad. Nonetheless, I thought it might be cool to surprise him with an easy-to-use, portable video camera so we could film Amelia’s “firsts.” I ended up ordering the Flip Mino HD (Amazon.com was [...]
Posted in home on Jul 22nd, 2008
It has been brought to my attention that I haven’t posted a pic of the house exterior, so, here it is:
Posted in home on Jul 21st, 2008
So we’ve been using Method products as our cleaning agents for a while, since they are biodegradable and free from toxins. Here’s a link to their site. Apparently they also make baby products, but I’ve never seen them sold at our local pharmacy. Anyone else?