Category: Life Musings
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Comic strip
My Mom cut a comic strip out of the paper for me. Picture two young females having a coffee, nicley dressed, a couple of hipsters. One saying to the other, “Norris and I have discussed having kids. We figure when we get sick and tired of proper rest, the theater, travel and having sufficient funds in…
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And then we rest
And then finally, we fall asleep for a few minutes. Ahh…the quiet is beautiful.
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Word of the day; unrelenting
The word of the day today is “unrelenting”. That is what it is like being the Papa of twins today. Walking with them to the Starbucks, Story cried the entire time. Annalie slept. Now we are home, Annalie is wailing away. Hold her in my arms and she cries. Lay her in her crib, she…
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Walkies in the wind
Slipped the girls into their piglet outfits and toques and then loaded them into the Mtn Buggy to go for a walk. I figured, they sleep once they are rolling, they need a nap, I need a Starbucks, so let’s roll. Almost as soon as Annalie is buckled in place she goes to sleep. Blissed right out.…
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Garbage duty
Not only do I get the pleasure of changing the pissy diapers off the twins, this morning I had the extra pleasure of scraping the dirty diapers off our driveway. For some reason the crows decided our garbage cans must contain food. So they took advantage of the fact that our garbage cans were lying…
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Baby formula is not…
A word to the wise…if you perchance run out of milk in your house and you need some kind of “coffee whitener” do not try to use baby formula. Now maybe the babies do not understand what weird tasting shit that they are drinking but…my goodness. No milk in the fridge and no coffee whitener…
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A delicate balance that is impossible to make
The hardest part of being the Papa of twins is the balancing of other priorities that one is forced to make. For example, my father is still being held in the hospital as he awaits a transfer to a long-term care facility. This has been going on since May of this year. Of course there…
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H1N1 Vaccine
I talked to my doctor today about the pros and cons of getting the H1N1 vaccine for the twins. He was very understanding of my concern that the twins are still borderline too young, too small and too vulnerable to get the shots. He advised that if we do decide to get them the shots that we…
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Brown Bear and the future of my hats
I see my future, “Where is my hat!!” Blonde Bear, “I saw Brown Bear go out wearing it…” Me, “Argh!!”
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A win for a Fin and a new baby tooth
Two things this evening, our man, the fabulous Fin Donnelly has won the New West-Coquitlam-Port Moody by-election for the New Democrat’s AND my baby girl Story has a tooth coming in the front row, bottom jaw!