It's hot! The entire weekend was upper 80s, lower 90s and very humid. Quite extraordinary for June in Quebec. Before my southern friends laugh and remind me they've had this weather for three months now, I'll tell you we don't have an air conditioner. It was 80+ in the house all weekend and 80% humidity. Sleeping the night before last was terrible ( Read more... )

I just thought of a great birthday present for Kathryn. (TWO WEEKS! Holy cow, she'll be six!)

Bit of background - she's been asking me to teach her how to sew for like a year but my machine pedal is incredibly fast and sensitive. Sam tried to modify it a bit but it didn't work. For Christmas, Sam's sister bought her a little pink sewing machine but ( Read more... )

Sam's mom has ruined both girls' nice, brand new, able to be worn next year, pretty green on both of them, long-sleeved t-shirts and thankfully both girls had on play jeans. I know it's a petty thing to be irritated about but my kids get just a few brand new clothing items each year. I can't spend $20 on a pair of pants or $15 on a t-shirt and ( Read more... )

I 'm so mad at myself. I put the veggies outside yesterday because it was a little overcast and not hot and I thought they'd appreciate the weather. But I forgot them. And it rained last night. One of my tomato plants snapped despite being staked. Everything else is leaning over a lot but still doing fine. I'm sad. I only planted three tomatoes and ( Read more... )

 I'm tired. I had to clean out the basement, which was a fine mess. I separated out my yarn and fabric stash because I don't want it to sit while I'm gone. I have one medium sized box of yarn and a few assorted items I'm sending my dad, five 4-yard cuts of flannel (for pajamas) I'm leaving here until our first visit and a few projects to complete ( Read more... )

 I just loaded a bunch of pictures onto flickr and I'll be darned if I didn't set them all as private. As in, only me can see them.

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Just posting (or perhaps reposting, I don't remember) a link I really like. http://www.youarenotcrazy.com/ Verbal abuse isn't all about yelling and threatening.

I hate when someone says stay-at-home-parents are "lucky". It's not by chance I don't have an outside job and it's certainly not because I lack something. I wasn't a stay-at-home-mom until Kathryn was nearly two and if I hadn't had Anna, I would not have stayed at home very long. Anna didn't tolerate being away from me very well. She still doesn't ( Read more... )