For the past few years we started a new Christmas Eve tradition. We do up one special gift for each kid and let them open it. The gifts all include the same things and are meant for use tonight. Here’s a play by play of my son opening his. A new snowman book! New SantaContinue reading “Christmas Eve Gift Tradition”
Category Archives: Family Life
Disturbing Wakeup Call
As any parent knows broken sleep is pretty par for the course. There are still many nights when some kid will come into our room having a nightmare, or they aren’t feeling well. This past while has been fairly bad because of a round of colds going through the house. It seems there has beenContinue reading “Disturbing Wakeup Call”
One on One Kid Dates
One of my favourite traditions that we started a few years back, is to go out on one on one Christmas shopping dates with our kids. It’s not very often that we get to spend time alone with one of the kids so it’s nice when we get to do it. We put let theContinue reading “One on One Kid Dates”
Christmas Café with Hot Chocolate
Tonight at our Church we held our annual Christmas Café. We get together with friends, very talented people get up and perform, and there are snacks and hot chocolate for everyone. This year my two youngest Daughters Caile and Ella along with my twin nieces decided they would sing The First Noel. They did aContinue reading “Christmas Café with Hot Chocolate”
Saturday Morning Pokemon
A little early Saturday morning Pokemon watching with my little monkey and his.
My family went to Ottawa and all I got was this colostomy
Each year we try to take our family on some sort of vacation. Lots of times it’s somewhere fairly close by but other years when we can we try to go a bit further. Usually my wife and I decide where to go and what fun things to do while we’re there. Typically Jen does most ofContinue reading “My family went to Ottawa and all I got was this colostomy”
Family Pictures
Recently we had our family pictures taken by our good friend and photographer Cheryl Fields. Cheryl did a great job. I love being able to capture our family all together every so often. It makes it fun to look back and see how much we have all changed over the years.
So little time, so much work
Currently I’m in my third week of working two jobs and so far things are going pretty well, but I don’t think it’s anything I could handle long term. Working all day then going home and working some more makes for long days. Throw in working close to full days on the weekends as wellContinue reading “So little time, so much work”
Turning Around A Bad Mood
For the last few days I’ve been letting little things, unimportant things, build up and let them get me down. I know full well these things are temporary and are dwarfed by all the great positive things in my life but for some reason let them get to me anyway. Not today! I let themContinue reading “Turning Around A Bad Mood”
Last First Day of School
Big mile stones in our home today. Like it was for many, this week is back to school week for us. My two middle girls were especially excited about going back to and see all their friends. For them this year will be much of the same, they’re entering grade five and three. They’re staying at theContinue reading “Last First Day of School”
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