Creating the good old days, one day at a time.
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Brown Bear starts to stand-up for herself
We saw something that excited and frightened us this morning; Brown Bear was sitting beside the Exersaucer, on the outside of it. She grabbed the top of it and she started to pull herself up into a standing position. She got about halfway up and then collapsed back onto her hinnie. Exciting to see her developing and…
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Lovely weekend excursions to Kerrisdale and Dundarave
In our continuing efforts to introduce the twins to new neighbourhoods and see new sights, this weekend we took them to Kerrisdale and Dundarave. Both trips went smashingly well, thank you very much. The trip to Kerrisdale was a special pleasure because Caraghand I both have ties to that part of town. I used to…
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Want a best friend? Get a dog
Just a quick word of advise before the kids go to sleep; if you want a best friend, get a dog. I have had Jimmy the dog for nearly fourteen years and she is the best friend I have ever had. She has never been so busy that she couldn’t make time for me and she has…
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Decisions, decisions, decisions
A serious post this morning. When you have babies, you have so many serious choices to make and you really do not know if anything you are doing is the right thing or wrong thing. And then you add in product recalls, choices around which formula to give your baby, or whether you should or…
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My missing opposing digits and some random observations
I finally figured out why I have such difficulty changing the twins diapers and also getting the girls dressed. If you look at the picture you will understand my difficulties. Never mind the difficult I will be having with getting the twins dressed, tomorrow I am on my own with them. There might be an…
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Foodbank Fundraiser Failure
Today we found a way to get some peace and quiet with the twins. And how is that? A drive in the car. We were headed down to the new CBC building for the Foodbank fundraiser and the kids had been quite squeaky all afternoon.Once we loaded them into the car seats and got the…
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Freebies for parents
One of the things that you find out at some point after having babies is that there are multitudes of “reward plans” that you can register for in order to get freebies for your babies. The silly thing is that most of the time you don’t even know that these programs even exist. I have…
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Putting up the Christmas Lights and Ladder Safety
Funny how your perspective on life and taking risks will change once you have a couple of little babies you are responsible for. At this time of the year people all over the place are outside in the cold and wet, climbing ladders in order to put up Christmas lights. Now that we live in a house…
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The Political Junkie; my writing for the Vancouver Observer
I have been very busy over the last few days with writing for the Vancouver Observer. I write a column for the VO called the VO’s Political Junkie. This last weekend I covered the NDP’s biennial convention for the VO and before that I wrote a piece about the changes that Vancovuer city hall is…
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First dinner in an actual restaurant with the twins
Here is a pic of all of us in the Dragon Palace in New Westminster. We wanted to try going out as family and it went well. I will add more of the story later. And here is the rest of the restaurant shortly before we were told we could have our meal free if we…
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