Archive for the 'Nana' Category


About a Mother

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 [...]

Menu Plan Monday

I took a break from the menu planning last week and it was a disaster. I had to actually plan the meals for the latter part of the week. So back to planning from the beginning. (I am actually using a number of the meals my mom suggested in the last [...]

Last Night: The Wake Ups, Part 2

Anthony and I got to sleep sometime after midnight only to be wakened by a horrific scream in the alley out back. The screaming kept on going followed by a man yelling and the woman still screaming bloody murder. (Well no those weren’t her exact words, but it really sounded bad.) [...]

Life was very busy

Did we mention that Nana Lorraine was in town for a quick visit (and a Girl Guide conference)? That’s this week’s excuse for a lack of postings (which I’m in the middle of rectifying). Mom was really happy to get time out here and enjoyed the conference and even managed to get [...]