Last night The Husband, Mary-Alice and myself went to the Penguins at Canucks game while Pippa stayed with a sitter. I was pretty nervous about it, because obviously, baby at a hockey game, what's gonna happen here. I borrowed ear protection from someone in a mothers' group I belong to, and it was a must. Before the game I saw another set of ( Read more... )

I made coleslaw (cabbage + carrot) for fish tacos on Friday, but I kept the sauce and the veg separate because I was using a chipotle mayo and recently Pippa's rejecting everything spicy. So I had some leftover coleslaw mix essentially the next day. So I made a sort of east-west fusion/what seemed like a good idea at the time thing and it came out ( Read more... )

I told myself I was going to get to bed by 10pm so I need to hustle if I want to get an LJ entry in ( Read more... )

In hindsight it was probably a bad idea to schedule for The Husband to go back to full time right after Christmas. We went straight from hectic crazy holiday time into hectic crazy holiday time is still around and suddenly I'm alone all day with two kids. And next week I'll be alone all day with THREE kids at least sometimes, when LB comes back ( Read more... )

My parish has asked women to sign up to be spiritual mothers of priests. After signing up we picked a Hershey kiss with a number sticker on it out of a jar, and that was our assigned FSSP priest (the society that our priests belong to). I let Pippa pick it out and she was very deliberate and actually did as asked and only picked out one chocolate. ( Read more... )

So a few days ago The Husband and The Pipster were at the playground and found a baby doll left there. The forecast was bad, so they brought her home with the idea that we'd clean her up and then put up a sign at the park so that if someone was missing her she could be returned. Well at least that idea was my husband's idea... turns out the two ( Read more... )

So this gif pretty much encapsulates how I'm feeling about getting ready for Christmas:

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I found out today that I am, potentially, an heiress (!). I knew my father's uncle was wealthy but I assumed that his widow was doing with that money whatever she wanted. But apparently the uncle left a will that meant that she can only use the income from the estate, not the principle, and when she dies, the principle is split among his sister's ( Read more... )

So today was the day for the ornament attempt. Yesterday I went to Michael's (a craft store) with Mary-Alice and without Pippa. Oh man, I had forgotten how nice and easy it is to shop with a non-grabby, not too heavy baby. I wheeled my shopping cart over practically the whole store because it just felt fantastic. I ended up buying all kinds of ( Read more... )

Christmas! Christmas is coming. Today it actually FELT like Christmas because it snowed! Not a lot of snow, but enough to cover the grass and the sidewalk. Pippa got really excited and was saying "Every day is happy Christmas!" She was sad that there wasn't enough snow to make snowballs though. More to the point it was a powdery snow that doesn't ( Read more... )