We're having Theo baptized this weekend. We're going to Montreal to do it so that my grandmother, who is quite frail and doesn't travel, can be there.

I am feeling kind of ambivalent about the whole baptism thing. One of the reasons that I want to do it is because all of the French schools in Ontario are either private or Catholic. Since I'm not ( Read more... )

Free hugs if you need them! Lord knows I always do.

Here's my thread if you feel like sharing some love with me.

( Babies and books and books and babies )

( Pictures, of course. )

Ten years ago, in September 2001, I had just moved to Halifax and started university. The morning of September 11th, I went to class, and then went to Howe Hall, one of the residences on campus, to get lunch. When I walked in the door, I found dozens of people crowded into a small lounge, their eyes glued to the television. Images of airplanes ( Read more... )

I know I've been pretty quiet for the last few weeks, and I honestly don't know why. We've been pretty busy - we went to Jack's funeral last weekend, and this weekend we were in Waterloo helping my sister get settled into residence. I have my interview for the yoga teacher training tomorrow. Soooo... we've been up to stuff, but not super crazy ( Read more... )

Jack Layton died this morning. I am really tired and for some reason I am taking this really hard, so I won't try to write anything impressive or deep about it.

Anyway, nothing that I write could never be as good as what he wrote.

Godspeed, Jack Layton. I thought you were so great and I always believed in you. And you always lived up to that ( Read more... )

Even though I've posted twice in the last week. Weird ( Read more... )

When I was 15, my sisters gave me a birthday card that said, "Happy birthday Annie, you're the beast sister!"

Now they write that on my card every year. They swear up and down that the original was supposed to say "best", but I don't know. I just don't know.

Not much exciting to report here. Monday morning I woke up feeling fine, but after Matt left for work I spent like an hour alternating between throwing up and shivering on the bathroom floor. So I made a tearful phone call to Matt and he came home, picked up Theo, and took him to the Early Years Centre while I had a two hour nap. Basically Matt is ( Read more... )