Category: Life Musings
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Clowning Around and Reading
“Hey look Mommy! I’m just like Papa!!” And below, the girls and me reading their favourite book, Brown Bear, Brown Bear.
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Daylight Savings Time Tonight
We are quite excited about switching to daylight savings time tonight. That is an hour that we don’t get to sleep due to someone other than the twins. Nifty. We took the girls out for sushi again today. We visited my favourite little hole-in-the-wall place, Asa Sushi in Burnaby. They make BC rolls with some…
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Layla Grace’s Celebration of Life
Hug your loved ones and grab a box of tissues. I see on Layla Grace’s blog that they are holding a celebration of her very short life tomorrow. The celebration will take place at 10:30am in the Bear Creek Baptist Church in Katy, Texas. Our thoughts, love and prayers go out to Layla and her…
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Henrik and Daniel Sedin Donate to BC Childrens’ Hospital
How cool is this? Canuck superstars, Henrik and Daniel Sedin have donated $1.5 million towards the construction of the new BC Childrens’ Hospital. The Sedin twins say that they have lived in Vancouver for ten years and want to be sure to give back to the community that they play hockey in. “Henrik and I…
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Taking in the View from the Vancouver Hyatt
I am currently away from home on business. It is much more difficult to be away from home than I ever imagined it would be. The nature of my work when I do work away from home is such that I cannot bring along my sweet cherubs. The hours are simply too long. Theoretically I…
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Bedtime Squirming and Screaming Troubles
Bedtime has become a bit of a nightmare around here in the last couple of weeks. Brown Bear in particular hates to lie down and have her clothes and diaper removed. She squirms about so much that it is really tough to get her ready for her bath. And then post-tub… Holy crapola. She has a bit…
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“This Too Shall Pass”
No, the title of this post is not about the topics from today’s workplace meetings, it is actually a very cool music video that I stumbled across on Dooce.com. (Thank you Ms K for the link!). Dooce is calling it “video of the year” and using other such extravagant language about the vid. I love the music video…
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Wordless Wednesday
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Budget Day in BC
I spent today in the “Budget lock-up” in the Premier’s Office in Vancouver, BC. The day was all about reading spreadsheets and trying to find where the juicy bits are hidden in the budget. I had the pleasure of sitting with Will McMartin of The Tyee as well as Bill Tieleman, writer for 24 Hours…