Cold Snap
The general consensus from many people in the US — friends included — is that Canada is a land of white tundra from September through June. While that is true for some areas of this great country, I...
View ArticlePropelling
Life just keeps moving forward at a breakneck speed in my little world and while the dynamics change, it’s just go! go! go! All of the time. All! Of! The! Time! I feel like my life is a big puddle of...
View ArticleForever 29
Birthdays are important to me. Not just my birthday, but also your birthday. (You have a birthday! You have a birthday! You have a birthday!). I will pour as much attention into my friends’ birthdays...
View ArticleFriendly
I’ve talked a bit about how I’m an introverted extrovert and Friday night saw my extroverted side in full force. I’ve taken to hosting a potluck girls’ night in, somewhere around my birthday, but it’s...
View ArticleHigh Tide
My good friend Amanda took me out for a birthday lunch last week and we had the chance to sit and talk face-to-face for the first time in far too long. We talked about many things, one of them being...
View ArticleHere Comes The Sun
I’ve been rather quiet lately, both online and offline. There are a myriad of reasons and none of them are that exciting. The sky is grey. The air is cold. I have work that pays me, but not for being...
View ArticleThis Post Sponsored By Midol
I am a hard worker. I work hard in my (paying) jobs, and not only is that communicated to me, I keep getting more work given to me. I work hard at being a good wife and parent, and my family life...
View ArticleHooked
Back in February, I was getting my hair done at my friend Jenny’s and she showed me all of the things she’d learned how to crochet since Christmas. Her sister Karen — another one of my closest friends...
View ArticleOut Of Words
I spent the weekend before last at the cabin and talked for pretty much two days straight, except for when Amanda and I buried our noses in books on Friday afternoon. I came home on Saturday and had...
View ArticleAll Of The Things
I remember being the parent of babies and preschoolers and dreaming of the days where my kids would be in school and things would be less hectic. (I was so cute in my naiveté.) My kids are all in...
View ArticleSecond Chances
I’ve been writing my feelings on the Internet for over nine years now, and I am always amused by the articles that come around a few times a year that claim that blogging is dead. (They are posting...
View ArticleLonely
I’m a pretty social person. I chat with other parents when I drop my kids off at school and when I pick them up. I talk to people I run into at the grocery store, and people who work in the offices...
View ArticleVeep
At the end of September, I left the gym and saw that a friend had called but hadn’t left a message. I got home and our call display told me that she had called my home number as well. I picked up the...
View ArticleMy Mini Me
My Mom was here when Emily was born, and upon Emily’s arrival, she said she felt like she was looking at me when I was born. We often get comments that she looks like me, and I definitely see it. She...
View ArticleOver The Hill
My birthday is on January 20th. As a child, I envied my sister’s July birthday because it was spaced nicely from Christmas, whereas mine is only a few weeks after and then nothing for the rest of the...
View ArticleI’m On Top Of The World
It’s no secret that I love birthdays — mine and everyone else’s — and that my love language is words of affirmation. There were comments here, there was that poster my friends filled out, the trifecta...
View ArticleOn Being An Ambivert
A while back, I read the book Quiet. (I highly recommend it.) I have a hard time reading non-fiction, unless it’s a biography, because I love stories. I glean so much more from the truths in stories...
View ArticleTraditional Medicine vs. Natural Medicine
I am a big fan of traditional medicine. If it wasn’t for Doctors who knew how to operate on a three-week-old baby with pyloric stenosis, I would not be sitting here typing right now. I have a...
View ArticleTurning To The Dark Side
It’s my birthday tomorrow (The celebrations started last week, in usual Angella style) and I wondered if I should do a ‘[Redacted] things you should know about me/I’m thankful for/I love’, but I wasn’t...
View ArticleIt’s Over
January is over. I’m stating the obvious, yes, but from what I’ve seen and heard, January was a bit of a jerk to many. Or, January is simply insane. “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing...
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