Month: August 2013

30 YEARS AGO Parenthood and sick kids…nothing can prepare anyone for the job! Exhilaration and exhaustion, and usually, both at the same time and for extended periods of time! Then add to the mix an insatiable curiosity to figure out why the croup, the cough, the ear infections, and soon, the exploration of the vaccine … Read more

Before you read any further, what would you say are the top ten reasons for visiting a hospital emergency room? SURVEY SAYS… There’s a little game we play in our household called ‘Survey Says.’ The name of course is ripped off from the game show on TV, but we tend to have a good amount … Read more

Warning: Today’s Post You may need to get your favorite beverage and set aside some time to plough through today’s newsletter. I have probably broken every rule for blog writing re: word count, sentence length, content, reading level, and the amount of time it will take to read through the information, etc., etc…. But if … Read more

Maybe you are as surprised as I am that it is already almost the middle of August! The summer in Calgary has been very wet and, most recently, quite cool. Despite the weather challenges, many of us are enjoying the longer days of light and reluctant to admit that September is only 2 ½ weeks … Read more

Maybe you can guess by the subject line who my overnight guest might be? And after a bedtime story of “The Stinky Cheese Man” (The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka), can you guess what the theme of lights out was all about? Toots! If you have a four-year-old yourself … Read more