Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family. Show all posts

Saturday, February 9, 2013

a day at home


  1. wake to baby crying
  2. nurse baby
  3. put baby back in crib
  4. repeat a few times (kinda like hitting the snooze button except the button is a person)
  5. eventually get up and turn on kettle and radio
  6. put baby in highchair
  7. give baby cheerios whilst making oatmeal or something else (this is important, baby is hungry, baby will complain loudly aka cry or scream if not given cheerios to eat and/or throw at floor aka dog while baby waits for real breakfast)
  8. drink tea and smoothie while feeding baby breakfast, eat gluten free cereal myself mmm
  9. surf internets and become angry at ridonkulous house prices in yukon
  10. listen to Jian Gomeshie cooing through the radio
  11. get baby and me dressed
  12. curse at the front door which is nearly impossible to open without a crowbar
  13. let dog out
  14. yell as dog runs away with neighbour's dog
  15. do dishes
  16. play / deposit every toy and every book on the floor
  17. pick up all of the toys and books
  18. make lunch
  19. feed / eat lunch
  20. let dog in feed him water him
  21. do dishes
  22. change baby
  23. play upstairs in loft with baby
  24. read story to baby
  25. sing song to baby
  26. nurse baby
  27. let baby turn light switch on and off a few times
  28. deposit baby in crib
  29. nap and or diddle on the computer while baby sleeps or doesn't sleep in crib
  30. wake up and play outside or inside
  31.  think about making dinner
  32. make dinner
  33. welcome dada home for the evening!
  34. eat dinner
  35. do dishes or bathe baby (we trade of on this)
  36. play
  37. read stories
  38. put baby to sleep
  39. collapse on chesterfield
  40. eat something like popcorn/giglet/or chips while watching something on net flicks (or sometimes we just ignore each other and he diddles on computer while i read or vice versa.
  41. SLEEP 
  42. wake up to baby crying and feed or ignore her  x 3





Monday, August 27, 2012

more from the walk



Wellington is always game for the outdoors. This dog is my muse. He is so effortlessly beautiful. Such elegance and grace in all that he does. He's taken to running over and greeting my neighbour when she gets home from work everyday and the other night he just staid over there and had tea or whatever he does with her and I forgot about him and eventually went to bed. Then at 11pm I hear this barking and it's him huddled on the porch wanting in.



Juniper was awake for most of the 3 hour jaunt. She stays silent in the chariot unless I stop for too long. She looks sleepy because she decided to wake up every 1.5 hours for some miowks ALL NIGHT LONG.



Which is why I look so ghastly tired. Sometimes I think I see a glimmer of Grace Under Fire in my photos. Strange. 



I went barefoot on the way back. Just had the urge. I spent an entire week barefoot during frosh week in my fourth year at Trent. Helped kids move bar fridges into their dorms and brought them on tours of downtown Peterborough. What a fucking hippie I am sometimes. Anyway, the path from the cabin through the fields to the river is basically sand and it had warmed in the sun. Walking with such awareness of the texture and the temperature of the earth, how  utterly Buddhist of me. haha. I hope the farmer finds my prints and gets a thrill from the thought of Pocahontas meandering through his back forty. Are toe rings really relics of the 90s? I think maybe I've had that one on since then haha. 



Obligatory mountain shot.

(Shizzzzop talk: I figured out how to make my photos stretch to fit the page perfectly thanks to a blog called My Girl Thursday here! This is so exciting because I was never happy with how puny my photos looked and making them bigger just made them bleed into the sidebar. Yes, I am a techno weenie who doesn't know anything knows a bit about html.)

Thursday, April 19, 2012

boys with beer



My cousin Antony (left) was in the Yukon for a few days working, which is super rare because we live 6000km away from everyone, and so we had him over for dinner and a walk (the guys brought roadies as you can see, but our "road" is not much a road). My Sasquatch is being allusive over there on the right as always. He is private like that. He doesn't even have a real facebook with his real name. I really, really would love to blog photos of him to show off how dreamy mansquanches can be once they get cleaned up and civilized. Oh well, there's my cousin. IT's so crazy how much he is starting to look like OPA!


On a side note: On my walk a few days before this, when the dirt from the ground was starting to emerge from beneath the snow, I became emotional, like the dirt was some long lost friend and we were finally being reunited. Seriously, I almost bawled. Being a tree planter, you become quite well acquainted with the earth, and when you see it you want to sink your hands into it.