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Rosh Hashanah Meals
Rosh Hashanah Meal PlanMealMondayTuesdayWednesdayDayParentsRound Challah (fresh?)SalmonLeftover Soo…

Birthdays a'comin' up...
So, like I always tell the kids... "you could celebrate your English birthday - if you were En…

SO relieved!
Called the dentist and there was no answer, but I just checked back here and my first appointment i…

Oven still broken
But things are somehow looking a little less bleak on this warm, sunny afternoon. Here are some pi…

Oven's broken! And a ballerina comes to call!
Oy, the oven is broken after working fine last night and I was going crazy trying to figure out wh…

Replacement wheels for Perego Carriage
Found at the curb! But one of the wheels is totally not useable... waaah!Letter w/attachments to P…

My garden mood
This is my Garden Mood right now, by the way... everything's dying, and there's nothing I …

I should read this thing more often!
Turns out I already mentioned the Ottawa trip the other day. So disregard where I explain the whol…

Meanwhile
I am only slightly miffed that my mother is terrified of catching my cold so she didn't offer t…

P.S. I was too sick
to enjoy my Shabbos alone - gack.  My regular allergic stuffiness and sniffling has been replaced …

Posted at the Library website
"Loving my current book - My Garden (Book) by Jamaica Kincaid! It's a
fascinating and nuan…

It's been... one year
Well, it will be one year, anyway.
That's what the oncologist said, though my mother said she in…

When wasps attack
At the Children's Garden tonight, it was getting dark too quickly to have storytime and I was…

Let us return
To the Shepherd's Pie for a moment. I just want to mention that this was absolutely knock-your…

Week in Suppers!
Suppers:
Sunday: BBQ at parents' place

Monday: Shepherd's Pie, garden beans

The tomato seen …

And the green grass grew...
...All around, all around...
And the green grass grew all around!

7 days to germination! Not bad, co…

Farmers' Market Supper - Wednesday
I know it's a few days late, but I just realized I had these pictures in my camera...

Wednesday:

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Baskin Robbins Coupon Debacle Incident
Submitted at the Baskin Robbins Canada website: "My husband & I filled out the online surv…

tHE other thing -
Hey - I just noticed yesterday:  Eli has teeth.  My goodness, it makes a difference to one's a…

today
With my lousy battered-by-babies brain and memory, the only thing I remember about September 11, 2…

Find the spider
This is a wonderful spider who turned up in our front garden. I only noticed it after I watered an…

Or maybe
I can punish Ted more effectively by making a faaaaabulous supper with delicious fresh veggies from…

Cheerful baby, miserable me
Oh, no... SO tired. Woke up stuffy & miserable at 3:30 for the 120th time in a row and then …

Toddler Word o' the Day: "Vominating"
As in, "Is he vominating, mama?"
You can always count on a week of everybody being sick (l…

Hmm
p.s. my father has a tumour.

Naomi, on finding a bunch of change in the laundry
Me: Let's take it upstairs and put it in the pushke - if we find money in the laundry, it'…

My latest Papier Mache project!
Okay! Maybe the FOURTH time's the charm. If this post works, I'll fix up the formatting lat…