Category: family
So apparently I spoke too soon. After being retired due to layoffs, then called back to work, then retired again due to layoffs, he’s been called back to work AGAIN! Apparently it’s just an 8 week call back, so he’s been given a “parole date” of Dec 31, 2009, but he’s not 65 until June, […]
My dad got word this week that he will once again be retired. He had retired once before, but it didn’t take. The full story there is that the factory he worked for laid everyone off, with the work all being sent to Mexico and, since he was 63 years old at the time, he […]
For the second weekend in a row, I was spoiled with visitors! Sarah, Dave and Teddy came to town on Friday and spent the whole weekend here before leaving on their cruise down the Pacific coast today. After I got home from work on Friday, Tod and I met up with them at their hotel […]
My sister, her bf and my niece ((or “Team Nancy” as Tod called them)) were in town this weekend, just to visit little ole me! And we had a freakin’ blast! They arrived on Saturday morning and I was there at the airport to greet them and to give Madeline a ride in my Smart […]
For me, September is going to be a month o’ babies. First up, I’m babysitting my friends Clayton & Jodelene’s baby next Saturday while they go to a Sarah McLaughlin concert. Mason is six months old and so so so so cute! I’m really looking forward to hanging out with Mason for the afternoon. The […]
When we were growing up, my sister and I thought we were total opposites. I was the “smart” one. My sister was the “creative” one. Which meant I grew up thinking that perhaps I wasn’t creative and she grew up thinking that perhaps she wasn’t smart. Both of which could not be further from the […]
Story #1 My niece alternates holidays with her parents. One year she spends Christmas morning with her mom (i.e., my sister) and Easter morning with her dad, and the next year it’s switched around the other way. This year she spent Easter morning at her dad’s place and she was concerned. How was the Easter […]
My dad is a big time Leafs fan. Big time. Despite growing up in Montreal, where it would have made a lot of sense to be a Habs fan (you know, given that the Habs win once in a while), he’s always been a fan of the Leafs. He moved to the Toronto area in […]
Congratulations are in order for Sarah, the Resident Historian and Chief Political Correspondent here on Not To Be Trusted With Knives, and her husband, Dave, who welcomed their son, Teddy, to the world on Jan 20! I’ve seen a few pictures and have to say that he’s pretty damn cute. Also, he looks just like […]
This morning, my Granny died. She’d not been well for some time (having heart disease (including some heart attacks in recent years), suffering from type 2 diabetes, breast cancer and debilitating osteoporosis), yet I still didn’t expect when my dad called this morning that he was calling to tell me that his mom was gone. […]