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Jan 8, 2020

POST CHRISTMAS BLUES

By |2020-01-08T06:59:34-08:00January 8, 2020|Parenting|1 Comment

The post Christmas blues hit with a vengeance today. Pre-Christmas was filled with the usual anticipation; anticipation of celebrating Christ’s birth, setting up the Christmas village with the boys, and hanging ornaments on our carefully chosen tree. There was excitement over Caleb coming home for three weeks, family visiting from Ontario, a break from the [...]

Jun 3, 2019

REMEMBER WHEN EMAIL WAS EXCITING?

By |2019-06-03T08:22:13-07:00June 3, 2019|Parenting, Technology|2 Comments

I remember when getting an email was a novelty. I wrote my first email in college to my roommate sitting in the computer lab next to me. Eventually, after marrying and being transplanted to Abbotsford, I used email as a way to keep in touch with my family living in the prairies. I'd turn on [...]

Apr 30, 2018

MOM GUILT

By |2018-04-30T21:25:28-07:00April 30, 2018|Character, Parenting|1 Comment

The email was followed up by a text; the kind that starts off with polite pleasantries about the weather and courteous queries about how I’ve been, only to make the awkward shift into, “So…while I’ve got your attention, I was wondering….” It’s the ever-popular approach of requesting a favour of someone or reminding them of [...]

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