Category Archives: ramblings

Soooooo happy about not having to go through any surgery, even minor day surgery, with Liam right now. ~~~ We all are still adjusting to the new schedule. I do feel like it’s harder to connect with a pre-verbal kid … Continue reading →

Liam’s scan was completely clean. All those infections and…no damage whatsoever. Also, no infections over the last 6 months. Therefore: no circumcision (yet). No surgery (yet)! Watchful waiting!! Yay!!!

Boys are abed; it’s 7:30. I have one million things to do. But I think I will read in the bath and go to bed. I am tired, tired out. Of course if I revive…I’ll load the crockpot. :-)

As a reminder there is a cast page up at the top there. I am all zen-like and peaceful these days, the ones filled to the brim with work and home and family and sweetpeas and friends. And then… I … Continue reading →

Outside the RCM each week before and after Noah’s music class we’ve been seeing the same homeless guy (or so his sign says). We give him a dollar instead of buying a snack, some weeks. Between that and the foodbank … Continue reading →

I will state flat out that my house is nothing close to Martha-Stewart perfect. I like it hygienic and not a disaster, although sometimes the insides of things actually are disasters. My sister, on the other hand, keeps an immaculate … Continue reading →

Today the dye test went well. It wasn’t fun – Liam was wrapped in Velcro tied to an imaging table for 50 minutes – but it was just a test and we will get results next week. Coming home it … Continue reading →

Liam is clearly entirely cowed by the due injection. We have to wait a couple of hours. Toronto folks: There is oatmeal with fruit topping at soup it up by the train! Liam is awed! So am I.

8:30. Boys are both asleep. Thanks to it being a martial arts night, and having decided V. could make naan “pizza” with Noah, and Carl and I having noshed on leftover ham-lentil-chickpea thing, there are not really any dishes to … Continue reading →

I am still getting my bearings at work/home/etc. Mostly a little bit out of words (shocking, I know), although I highly suspect this is temporary. So here’s Liam after his cake, and we will count it 1000 words and I … Continue reading →