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Today is Good Friday which in our religion means "the day Jesus died on the cross".  To remember this sad event, we re-enact it at church at 3PM and then go home to eat a meal containing zero meat.  My mom has had the tradition, for many years now, of making the big Good Friday meal and having family members over to enjoy it.  The menu consists of ( Read more... )

I spent the day chasing and entertaining five-year-olds.  Very loud five-year-olds, might I add.  I must re-emphasize the one very good thing about being a supply teacher: you go home at the end of the day and you will probably never see those kids again.  And, if you do, it will only be for one day, not for months and months.  I could not believe ( Read more... )

This is a very nice Sunday. I am sitting on the couch with my laptop. Calvin is working on a project (a paper carousel).  Victoria is visiting and is painting some wooden thingies that I bought at Michael's.  It's been a nice weekend.  My weekend started on Thursday night. I spent the night in Markstay, visiting Melinda and Zoey and sleeping there ( Read more... )

Sometimes, I have to do a double take at the calendar to remind myself that it is the end of March.  First off, this month is completely flying by.  Actually, the year 2010 seems to be zooming past us at an alarming rate, in general!  But what keeps me flabbergasted is the fact that 2/3 of the school year have past me by and I've yet to get a full- ( Read more... )

Here is the list of books I've read so far in 2010:

1) The Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot

2) Princess in the Spotlight - Meg Cabot

3) Princess in Love - Meg Cabot

4) Princess in Waiting - Meg Cabot

5) Project Princess - Meg Cabot

6) Princess in Pink - Meg Cabot

7) Princess in Training - Meg Cabot

8) Valentine Princess - Meg Cabot

9) The Princess Present - ( Read more... )

This March Break, as every school holiday this year, has been strange.  I didn't have to work on report cards for once, which was nice. The only really different and good side to this March Break (as compared to previous years) was the fact that I wasn't walking around with my phone in my hand every waking minute of the day (and leaving it beside ( Read more... )

When I was young, I used to love rearranging my bedroom furniture.  I would do it two or three or four times a year, depending on how patient my mother was feeling on the day I chose to do it.  I always wanted to simply move the furniture into different places, but she always insisted that I clean EVERYTHING, with soap and water, even the ( Read more... )

Project "Renovate Bruce Avenue House" is underway yet again this weekend.  Calvin is currently sanding down his patches that he fixed last night in the office.  We also pulled up the ugly linoleum and, underneath, we discovered hardwood!  If we were planning on living here, we would return the laminate we bought and fix up this floor (since, more ( Read more... )

People often complain about their mother-in-laws. I won't say that I NEVER complain about mine (because, come on, of course I do), but I do love her a lot as well.  She and I often have really great conversations when we are alone in the same room.  Today, we spent a solid thirty minutes, just chatting about everything: the build on King street, ( Read more... )