Creating the good old days, one day at a time.
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A Perspective Adjustment
So you think you are busy with your demanding baby? Not getting enough sleep because your baby has had a runny nose and been up a couple of times in the night? Life is challenge with twins? Check out this mother of quadruplet boys! And she recently took the boys to Disney World. From Quatro…
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Alexandre Bilodeau Wins Olympic Gold
Wow, what an incredible day today it turned out to be! We ended up at Granville Island to absorb the Olympic atmosphere, but before that experience Annalie and I trekked off to meet Friend Terry at Quan’s Kitchen for weekly our Sunday feed. And then when we came back home we installed the big girls seats in…
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On Valentine’s Day and Birthday Gifts
Today is Valentine’s Day. A day that men all over the world will eternally struggle with. All last week Wifey and I discussed today. The consensus was, as long as we are together with our twins, no need for gifts. So early this morning we get up and Wifey starts looking around; “Where did ya hide them.”…
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Tiny Love Toy Recall Link
Now that I have children of my own I have a much deeper understanding of the importance of a recall of childrens’ toys and stuff. With that in mind, here is a direct link to the part of the Tiny Love website where they discuss the recall of their toys.
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Breakfast is Served
I knew I should have stayed in bed today. My first clue? I poured Jimmy the blind Dog a bowl of Cheerios and myself a bowl of dog food. And we both ate what we were served and seemed to enjoy it as much as you can enjoy anything when you have not slept in ten months.
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Ugh…
My eyes and my brain hurt. Nothing to say tonight…actually lots to say, just no energy to pound the keyboard.
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Change is Good
For Tricia…Anyone who knew me twenty or thirty years ago knows that I was a fiend for Led Zeppelin and Neil Young and Crazy Horse. I had a Jeep that I would drive around Kitsilano in with the top down and a 200 watt amp pumping the power to the banks of speakers that I replaced…
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The Living-Room Baby Corral
Back in the days before the twins were born Wifeyand I would scan through the baby supplies catalogues and laugh at all the “stuff” that people would buy their babies. We wondered at the excess that people would go to when buying toys and entertainment for their kids and did the not-yet-parent thing of; “We…
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Your Thoughts on Customer Service Expectations
I really believe that quality customer service is what sets successful businesses apart from the less successful ones. When we were in San Diego this Christmas break we were very pleasantly surprised at the level of customer service available in nearly every store, restaurant and shop we entered. Same for the Hilton La Jolla hotel where…
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How to get around the show-stopper of “We need to talk about this”
The process of public consultation has been subverted by many community groups to the point where “consultation” really means that a special interest group is going to demand air time to vent their concerns. They will typically use any open forum to vent their impotent rage against whatever it is they are so fundamentally opposed to…simple things…
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