Category: family
A year ago, I wrote a birthday blog posting for my dad. When I wrote it, I had no idea that it would be the last birthday my dad would live to see. I had no idea that I’d only see him twice in person after writing that post ((In June 2011, when I went […]
Today, my adorable nephew turns 1! For your birthday, Thomas, we made you this video: Hope you like it!
My mom called yesterday to tell me that she got a letter from the Trillium Gift of Life Network saying that my dad’s eyes, which we donated after my dad died, had been used in two sight-restoring surgeries. Which means that two people who would otherwise be blind can now see thanks to my dad’s generous gift. […]
Because I was having a grumpy day not too long ago, my sister drew me these pictures of robots. With flames. Because who wouldn’t be cheered up by robots and flames? No one, that’s who! And who doesn’t need such pictures adorning their work computer to make them all happy, all the time? No one, […]
Just finished a weekend of classes. As per usual, I learned a tonne of stuff, the people are super awesome and I’m freaking exhausted. Freaking exhaustion will thus be my excuse for a lack of coherence and plethora of typos I will likely make in this blog posting. Apologies in advance. And now – a […]
In my ongoing birthday series of Things That Important People in My Life Have Taught Me, it’s time for a birthday shout out to my brother-in-common-law ((i.e., my sister’s partner)), Jeff. What Absolute Niceness Looks Like The very first time I met Jeff was on a trip back to Toronto for Christmas. I arrived during the day when […]
I’m home. I’m tired. I’m glad I got in some good aunty time with my niece and nephew! I also got to go to my Grandpa’s 89th birthday party (though his birthday isn’t until March 16, his party was yesterday). It was only one month ago today that my Dad died. It somehow seems like […]
I’ve had two hockey games since I returned home from Ontario and both times while driving to my hockey game, I started crying. Being that I live so far away from my family, my Dad’s death still seems a little bit unreal to me. I mean, I was there when he went in for surgery, […]
Despite my coffee snobbery, I’ve started drinking Tim Horton’s coffees of late. It started when I was in the hospital for my Dad’s surgery. The coffee shop in the hospital ((As an aside: the hospital also had a Colonel Sanders Wing. Like as in the Kentucky Fried Chicken guy. Apparently he lived in Mississauga at […]
I’m back home. As I’m sure you can tell from the obituary I posted last week, my dad’s surgery did not go as planned. The first bad news we got was on the day of the surgery itself, when the surgeon came out of the operation and told us that the tumour that we had […]