Category: events
A “happy birthday/congrats on finishing your MBA” card from my lovely friend, soon-to-be-Dr. Martha! Yesterday was Bethmas. Apparently I was so busy preparing and then celebrating that I never even gave you the usual Bethmas Eve greeting ((Though I did tweet it.)). But now I’m here to give you a recap. I decided that, since […]
And this is my 213th blog posting of the year. It wasn’t the one I intended, as I was working on a posting about my goals for 2014 but got side tracked by a couple of phone calls, and so I didn’t have time to give that posting the time it needed. But they were […]
How does 2 weeks go by so fast? Seems like I only just got here and now I’m back at the airport waiting for my flight home. On Christmas Day, I said to my sister, “I can’t believe I’m still here for 6 more days!” That feels like 2 minutes ago! But I did see […]
For Christmas, I got my nephew a shark bath towel. It’s got a hood with shark teeth and a fin on the back, so you can dress up like a shark after your bath. I bought it even before I knew we were going to go to the Aquarium and so when we were there, […]
As we all know, the true meaning of Christmas is presents. And there sure were lots and lots of presents under the tree this morning! My niece and nephew got lots of nice toys – Madeline’s were dominated by Monster High dolls and Thomas’s included dinosaurs, trucks, and a few toys from Monsters University ((Specifically, […]
Picture it – it’s Christmas Eve and everyone is hanging their stockings. Everyone, that is, except my two and a half year old nephew. He was having none of it. He would hold his stocking, he would walk over to where the stocking holders were and then he would either run away from it or […]
In honour of my trip to Ireland this year, I say “Nollaig Shona” to all! Image Credit: Posted by Sr. Heather, OPA on Flickr.
Christmas Baking 2013 was a success! We baked a grand total of 9 things: Chinese almond cookies Jan Hangel cookies flaxseed crackers gingerbread marshmallow puff tartlets – which I renamed Hufflepuffs mocha nut butterballs shortbread Turtle bars white chocolate & macadamia nut cookies Here’s Madeline, baking Turtle bars: Some chopped macadamia nuts: Thomas and Grandma […]
Hands down, my favourite Christmas tradition is baking with my family. As far back as I can remember, we’d get together to bake Christmas goodies that we’d give out to family and friends and have around the house for when people came to visit. When I was young, my Aunt Wendy would come over to […]
Toronto just got a new aquarium and my Aunt Lynn took us all there for my niece’s birthday ((Earlier in the day, my mom asked my 2.5 year old nephew what kind of fish he thought we would see at the aquarium. His answer: sushi.)). I have to say – it was pretty cool. We […]