Creating the good old days, one day at a time.
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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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Lunch at the Bo Kong Restaurant in Richmond
Today, in our ongoing efforts to introduce our girls to many different forms and flavours of food, we took them to the Bo Kong Vegetarian restaurant in Richmond. Typically, when we go to restaurants that are not entirely kid/baby friendly, we get the table closest to the washroom door. Not today though. Instead we were led to a table…
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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…
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Layla Grace Provides Perspective Adjustment
Okay, this weekend I was taught a life lesson I will not soon forget. As you may know I am a bit of a Twitter freak…and yes, you too can follow me @papastacey. I was reading the tweets as they popped up and this one pops up from @LaylaGrace saying; She hasn’t eaten in 13 days…
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Canada Wins Hockey Gold, 2010 Olympics Closing Ceremonies
Such a crazy busy weekend I barely had time to sit sown at the computer and write anything. It is frustrating when so many things are going on that need to be written about and I only have half an hour in front of the computer. Yesterday was a morning walk along Spanish Banks and…
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