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Visiting With Grandad

Gwen — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 20:07:56 +0000

Last week my father stayed with us and had a great time with his grandsons. We didn’t do anything particularly special, but we had every sort of weather to do it in. We did spend some time at Granville Island, some time sledding, and Aidan and Dad had a bit of adventure time.

Grandad and the boys talking about anchors at Granville Island.

Quinlan building a snowman at Charleston Park after sledding.

Anthony pulling Aidan along to Granville Island for theatre class.

Grandad and Quinlan playing just before we had to take Grandad to the airport.

Grandad and Aidan playing.

All the boys playing.

Just before we had to clean up and go to the airport.

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About a Mother

Gwen — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:58:31 +0000

About a month ago I started to see tweets fling about a super idea for Mother’s day. As far as I know it started out as a glimmer in @KimPlumley’s mind, and today Twitter Giver launched its first contest. Along with Yoyomama and now CBC Vancouver, Twitter Giver has a huge prize worth over 3000 dollars for the winning tweet.

So how do you enter? It is as easy as writing 140 characters. Write about your mom, or help your kids write about theirs and tweet it with the tag #cbcgiver. You have until 11:59 pst tonight and the winning tweet will be revealed tomorrow on the Early Edition on CBC radio 1. If your mother won’t see your tweet, send her a copy, because prizes aside, how you feel may be the best present she receives.

Show your love for your mother. Here is mine:

You always helped us believe, never let us know how hard things were, were there 4 others in trouble, thankyou @NanaLorraine Love U#cbcgiver

Checkin the Mail Mommy

Gwen — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:47:48 +0000

Aidan, like most kids I’d bet, loves to check the mail. Aidan especially likes it when he get to read the mail. We give him our junk mail and the grandparents have been writing him letters lately. I think I will have to get a scrapbook just for the letters he is getting.

Today Aidan got two letters on the same day, one from Nana and one from Grandad. Both were sweet, printed so that he could see his name and each told a little about what was going on in the lives of his grandparents.

It got me to thinking about the written word and about letter writing in general. I love mail and when I was young I had a number of long distance friends and letters were the way we communicated most of the time. I guess I am old enough that long distance used to be expensive and there wasn’t email until I was in college. Has email and cheep long distance changed the way I write letters? Damn straight it has. I can’t remember the last time I sat down to write a newsy letter to anyone. Maybe I should start to write a Christmas letter letting friends and family know what we have been up to this year. Hmm, but most of them know about the blog, so shouldn’t they know what was what in 2007?

The one thing I know is going to happen soon, this week I hope, is getting Aidan to write his letter to Santa Claus. I know I will be doing the writing but this year I want to build up a little anticipation for the holiday. Aidan now understands Halloween, so I am hoping that Christmas this year will be as much fun. I can’t wait to get out the decorations and the Advent Calendar. A busy November will melt into a busy December.