Category Archives: holidays

Definitely not a year in pictures

How about a few summer photos?  Just to show that the kids have grown like weeds…and, gasp, some actual real pictures of me.  This is a blog first for me…
 
We spent Alex’s 10th birthday in July at Great Wolf Lodge in Niagara Falls and had a great time with WannaBaa – her kids and mine.  It [...]

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Devil in a blue dress

Not an actual post (coming soon I swear!) but had to share this awesome picture of WannaBaa’s little miss Ava in her Miss Muffett. Pattern was on Magknits and now available on Ravelry…

The yarn is Cascade 220 superwash that I kettle dyed to get a colour I liked…

Quick update on me:

French language training [...]

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Low fibre content…pretty pictures!

I am…well…ridiculously wrecked. See the date? That is the day I uploaded the photos to blogger…as opposed to TODAY which is the 18th of August.
The new job is kicking me in the rear. I can’t explain why. It isn’t far off what I was doing before…just…more.
Anyway – here is the loveliest [...]

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There and back again; up to my ears in wool

The news

So the “dude” and I headed off into the wild blue yonder – ambled down the highway at a leisurely pace of 15 km per hour above the speed limit – to the Big City. Actually we hit surburbia and went to Whitby – about 50-odd (give or take 25 km depending on which [...]

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I dare you to call me middle aged!!!

I went to Canada’s Wonderland with the dear son and proved that 37 isn’t too old to go on a ride that made me think I was going to die. Actually – this is more accurate. Except that in addition to the screaming I heard Alex say, “THIS IS AWESOME!!!!” That’s when I knew I [...]

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Christmas and beyond….

So Santa came and went and it was all good.
Xmas morning the sprogs were at their dads so I got up around 9:30 and went over to my neighbours for some coffee and conversation which was a very humane way to begin Christmas!
I picked up Madeline and Alex at 1:00 and came home and opened [...]

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