Category: family
photo © 2009 Chris Breikss | more info (via: Wylio) On Thursday, I got a very expected email from my dad. For, you see, tonight my beloved Vancouver Canucks play the my father’s Toronto Maple Leafs. Every year when our two teams play each other, we have a bet. The loser has to buy a […]
My mom’s birthday is easy to remember – it’s the day after Remembrance Day. It’s also easy for me to remember how old she is, because she was 30 when she had me and since I’ll be 34 in January ((omg. That sounds very old. Has anyone seen my cane??)), that means she turns 64 […]
Congratulations to Sarah, the Resident Historian and Chief Political Correspondent here on Not To Be Trusted With Knives, and her husband, Dave, and new big brother, Teddy, as their family increased by 33% on August 24 with the introduction of little Veronica Floriana to the world! As with her brother, you can see from this comparison of […]
My uncle George died yesterday. Fucking cancer. He’s been sick for a while and we knew it was terminal, but I guess I didn’t realize that it would be terminal so soon, because I was shocked when my sister called to tell me. I can’t even imagine what my aunt and my cousin are going […]
Today my niece graduated from kindergarten! Happy graduation, kiddo! Hope you have an awesome summer holiday and a wonderful time in grade one come September.
My dad’s favourite sandwich is one of his own invention: the reverse peanut butter sandwich. A reverse peanut butter sandwich consists of: one slice of white bread about 1/2 inch of Kraft (i.e., full of salt and sugar and shortening) peanut butter about 1/2 inch of Imperial (i.e., hydrogenated!) margarine, on top of the peanut […]
Today my dad is officially a pensioner! Though he has retired many times before, today he officially gets to call himself “retired for good” and start collecting his CPP ((for my non-Canadian readers, that’s Canada Pension Plan)). In his honour, I shall purchase a Lotto Max ticket today for this week’s draw – who knows, […]
My sister and I inherited a love of cooking and baking from our mom. I have very fond memories of baking things as a kid and, as I’ve mentioned before, baking is how I learned fractions! Since we often share recipes, my sister decided to start us up a joint account over at All Recipes.com […]
Today I received a surprise package in the mail! It contained house warming presents from my niece, my sister and her boyfriend. This is a jar that my niece made for me ((with a bit of assistance from Jeff. M drew it, but Jeff had to trace the drawing with paint because the paint bottle […]
The other day I tweeted that I needed an Irish recipe for a St. Patrick’s Day potluck, as my office does a potluck for holidays. I wanted to do something Irish as we don’t have many people of Irish descent in my office ((in fact, I don’t know of anyone else but me, though, admittedly, […]