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1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before? Heard Ash laugh for the first time (the most beautiful thing I’ve ever heard) Sung “Down By the Bay” literally 129384730 times Planned a wedding Got married Spent every single day of this entire year with a baby. And videotaped most of it [...]

We’ve been sick with a really rough cold for close to two weeks, and Ash just caught what Clive and I had on xmas day. There is SO much mucus. I’ve never seen this much snot come out of such a small nose. And then there’s the coughing and then the whining that comes directly [...]

I’m not big into Christmas. And I’m not against it either. We grew up with the whole Santa thing, a few family traditions like getting our own tree from our property, decorating it perfectly (every strand of tinsel laid on the branches, no two red/green/blue ornaments too close to another similar colour… not my rules, [...]

Winter officially starts tomorrow, but you wouldn’t know it by looking outside. Mid-Canada (and the states, I guess too) got the snow for the past couple of days and it’s blown in over Nova Scotia right now. My sister and I were chatting on the phone when I mentioned that I kind of wanted to [...]

Since I’m no longer part of IAM, my resources are limited, so I’m looking for recommendations from people about tattoo artists in Ontario- I guess Toronto specifically, but I am willing to travel. I want to get a colourful old school anchor tattoo on my foot in early May when Clive, Ash and I travel [...]

Watching Ash’s language development is utterly fascinating. He tries to repeat a couple dozen of my words every day, and usually picks up one or two words to bring into his regular vocabulary every day. Most recently I taught him how to say “boobie,” something I’ll likely regret when he can really pronounce it and [...]

So, Ash seems to be coming out of his funk. I was scared it was going to last the next fifteen years- I was really pessimistic about his behaviour and life overall after a week and a half of it. We took him to the doctor yesterday who informed us that everything looked normal. Part [...]

Dear Ash, You turn 15 months old today. My memory of the past month has been clouded over by this week, because you are a completely different person than what you usually are. We moved Ash, and you’re not happy. We moved to a bigger apartment with a backyard and every time we walk in [...]

On days like this, the days where the wind just slices through every layer of your clothes and it hurts to breathe because it’s so cold I wonder why I hated living in the Caribbean so damn much. I hate winter. Seriously hate it. Hate it more than RL, hate it more than those idiot [...]

Well, we’re out of our old apartment, and mostly in our new apartment. We moved here a 15 months ago with a Civic full of our stuff- one TV table was our only piece of furniture- because it folded up small, and now we’ve got what seems like a zillion boxes of stuff and lots [...]