I’ve been keeping a secret for weeks! I know it’s terrible, but I really couldn’t blog about it and risk the chance of someone hearing or spilling the news to certain people before me. But, this morning in giant leap of courage, I told my boss. And, then I told the head of HR. I [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Twigglet
Posted in home, tagged pregnancy, telling work about pregnancy, week 15 on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
inside out
Posted in crafting with children, home on March 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Scene 1: Outside our window.
Scene 2: Above our fireplace
We read the classic, Woody, Hazel and Pip last night and after drawing pictures we decided that Saturday would be craft day. We woke up and mixed a large bowl of paper mache mix and prepared our workspace. We used a yogurt container and small cream carton [...]
snow spring
Posted in home on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There was a snow blizzard here yesterday and today we couldn’t even walk to work because the sidewalks haven’t been cleared yet. I’m all for making new paths in fresh snow, but not for an hour and not first thing in the morning when you are trying to get somewhere. Julia’s believes that Spring was here [...]
sunday
Posted in home on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wow, thank you to all the people who came out on Sunday. I was greeted by about 300 people squished inside one small gallery. The children were enthusiastic and some of the kids stayed for the entire hour long journey.
I chose 5 children to help me find the 5 evidence pieces of children’s creativity. They [...]
performance today
Posted in Uncategorized on March 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I will be performing my “Mrs Twigg’s Surprising Suitcase” show at the Winnipeg Art Gallery today from 2:15 – 3:15.
The audience participants and I will work on finding if children’s creativity exists in the art gallery. Since, I got the following letter:
The Children’s Centre of Creativity
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Twigg,
We are writing to ask your assistance [...]
Last day, first day.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged baseball dolls, child report days, first day of spring, last day of winter on March 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I celebrated the last day of winter by making Molly’s Ed Fretwell soup last night. Delicious and wow does it ever make a lot. We ate it with crusty bread and completed the meal with on-sale ice cream.
Yesterday, Julia lead her dad and I through her progress in school, it’s where kids show what they [...]
Spring branding
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged handknits, hating homemades, knitting with dog fur, spring on March 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Spring has an excellent branding company working on its behalf. As I’m sure others do, when I think of spring I think of fresh green prints, cute animals, little flowers and rubber boots. The truth is that spring is mostly smelly and very dirty. I don’t mind a little mud on my boots, but we’ve [...]
spring sick
Posted in home, tagged sick days, spring knitting on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Julia’s legwarmers. (I need to snag a picture of her in them with the green rubber boots, adorable.)
Our household is filled with sick people. This is day #2 of sick this week. I have productive sick days, which might be why it takes me longer to heal. But, when blessed with an entire quiet day [...]
spring is starting!
Posted in home, tagged green rubber boots magic, spring on March 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The snow in the front is melting!
Julia got new used rubber boots yesterday from the thrift store. She says green rubber boots are extra special because at the start of Spring you get three nature wishes. Her first Nature wish is that the snow melts faster. And…it happened! On Friday there were 10 puddles from [...]
cake in the cupboard
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cake in the cupboard, homemade life molly, spring children's fashions, yogurt cake on March 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Why do I bake cakes and store them in the cupboard?
Because we have scavenger cats. Ever since d’noddy-oh was diagnosed with diabetes and we started giving her daily insulin shots and cut out all dry food, the cats will search for food at night. No loaf of bread, no plate of cookies, no freshly baked [...]
