Materfamilias Writes

Happy Nana

Happy Nana

Saturday, 5-ish, I’m on the couch in the condo, reading, and I look up across the room to the doorway, just opened by Pater to my SIL and my daughter, holding Nola in her arms.…

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Much Ado About Boots

Much Ado About Boots

We’re in Vancouver for the weekend — the kids gave Pater a series of cooking classes as a retirement gift and yesterday he sharpened us his knife skills (tee-hee!). Meanwhile, I had a long run…

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So much depends upon — the orange wheelbarrow!

So much depends upon — the orange wheelbarrow!

One last splash of orange, if you don’t mind (and yes, the pun was deliberate — sorry!). Here’s our improvisational response to the lack of a baby pool here — we simply cleaned out the…

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and it’s getting better . . . .

and it’s getting better . . . .

I was wrong about the bronchitis — Pater insisted I visit a drop-in clinic on Saturday, and the perfunctory-doesn’t-begin-to-describe-it doctor diagnosed a sinus infection. Today’s my third day on antibiotics and I’m actually able to…

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The child that is born on the Sabbath day . . .

The child that is born on the Sabbath day . . .

Here she is, baby Nola, born Sunday, November 23rd, just before 10 a.m.– the child that is born on the Sabbath day, is bonny and bright and good and gay (and this nursery rhyme, of…

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