Ahhhh!

So, so much has been going on in my life lately that I can’t possibly fill you in on it all. Why? Because that damn IRL stuff has been sadly overwhelming my online life. (“Stupid IRL”, she says in her best Homer Simpson voice)

For shorts, you can read this. It’ll give you an idea of the really, really big life and death (for real) issues that I’m talking about.

Then, just for the hell of it, read this, too. Just ’cause I think it was kinda funny and thought-provoking. (If I do say so myself. And I do!)

And now, for some funny in a sad, maybe-I-should-actually-be-mad way stuff:

So. I am living with my sister and her family in Toronto. Why? Read the first link above, doofus. My Mom is in the last stages of her fight against cancer and I’m here to help, okay? And after nearly four weeks here alone, my daughters came out to join me. So all three of us are living with my sister and her family. Which means there are four cousins, all under the age of ten, living together in one (rather smallish, but beautiful nonetheless) house. And because three of them are girls, and they’re young, and stupid unsupervised; they decided yesterday to give themselves (and the neighbour kid, thankyouverymuch) homemade “marker tattoos”.

Yes, marker tatoos. Read the rest of this entry »

what's my name?

Okay, so I’m back in blogland now, which means I’ve been surfing all my fave blogs and reading back in their archives to see what I missed. And one of the best entries I read in my catch-up was this one, on LoriD’s blog Not the Mother of the Year. In it she tells us some of the baby names that topped the list for her and her hubby during her three pregnancies, but still didn’t make the final cut.

I just loved reading the names and the stories behind them, and it got me all nostalgic thinking about the little babies I named but then never had…the names I loved as a teenager and in my twenties, the names my hubster and I talked about before I ever got pregnant, and then the names that were shortlisted while we were expecting our two girls, but never made it to real life (two that are very special because they were chosen for the son we never had). Read the rest of this entry »

Did you even hear about this? I only found out by accident yesterday when researching dishwashers on the Sears website and saw a link to the Earth Hour page on the WWF website. I clicked through and found out about this amazing event – turning off the lights from 8-9 pm on Saturday and taking a stand against climate change.

The event was pioneered in Sydney, Australia last year, and went worldwide this year. Read the rest of this entry »