I had cats growing up, but we weren’t always good to them and they got lost. My dad would joke that we were having cat for dinner all the time, and he would put the cat in the oven (not turned on.) His motto was, “The only cats I like are dead cats.”
Now, we live [...]
Archive for April, 2009
On cats
Posted in home on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
random act of domesticity
Posted in home on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am not consistent in domestic affairs. Some days I am super clean woman who lifts and shakes out the rugs before I scrub the floors, and sometimes I notice that sauce has fallen on the floor while cooking and I just let it dry there. I woke up on Sunday and made a 2 course breakfast [...]
champ
Posted in home, tagged kids photo day on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I came to work today, that makes me a champ.
Julia’s school does Spring pictures in addition to the Fall shoot. Last year, I thought it was an awful money grab, who needs school posed photos TWICE a year. But, this year I am grateful, because I lost the photo proofs when we moved into the [...]
sick
Posted in home, tagged pregnancy colds, sleeping positions pregnancy on April 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m sick and only being slightly sucky about it. The part I am sucky about is the whole not being able to take ANYTHING for it because I am pregnant. I am also sucky about having to go into work today, especially because it is Sunday and I am sick, and it is a Julia [...]
Old toys = new love
Posted in home on April 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This post is about She-Ra.
It all started because the Easter bunny (Dave, this year) that came to our house must be really hip or something, because he brought Julia a set of She-Ra dvds. She loves them.
The following week, I am at work and a co-worker makes a comment that my Laptop Lunch kit looks [...]
movie making couple
Posted in home, tagged creative couples, making movies, making movies with husband, monkeyhead on April 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
above: (Dave and I with monkeyheads)
So…I met Dave on the internet. I was Poeta, sharing sad poems on a CBC website and he was Twigg, sharing videos on a CBC site, and we met to do a collaboration. We shot about 3 little shorts together and fell hard in the process. Our wedding vows included a [...]
sunday -bake, sew, knit
Posted in home, knitting, thrifting on April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
1. baked strawberry bread
2. sewed bag to hold bread
3. knit bag to hold baby (pattern free on ravelry – search kicking bag).
Off to work and then I come home to my new porch couch I bought on kijiji friday.
Happy Sunday.
Spring firsts
Posted in home, knitting, thrifting, tagged first spring fire, knit baby sweaters, spring bedding on April 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
1 & 2. First spring fire
3. Favorite spring chair
4. Necklace’s first season with a view
5. First night with new thrifted Spring bedcover
6. First sweater knit for baby (from knitter’s book of yarn, I need to find and add buttons.)
7. First night of tea and knits on the veranda
sorels and slip-ons
Posted in home, tagged spring, spring shoes, winnipeg couch wanted on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last week I walked clunkely to work in my knee high Sorel’s. Yep, the tall huge, heavy black ones that I used to roll my eyes at and think, “who would ever wear those?” It turns out, I would. They made sense as a mother who wants to play in the snow with her kid [...]
The post office girl
Posted in home, tagged drawing with children, radio dramas, teaching drawing on April 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I crash so early these evenings, but they are a simply lovely way to end the days. Instead of running down a list of things I did not accomplish, I am distracted by my new lavender shoulder heat pad, knitting a simple lace scarf and listening to BBC’s “Book at Bedtime.” I’ve had to play [...]
