Our daughter, Kaitlin Marie Hamilton, was born at 5:32pm one month ago. It’s amazing to watch her grow over the past 31 days. She’s gone from being awake just long enough to eat, burp, and poop to spending her mornings and late afternoons tracking our faces and realizing she has hands. Kate’s vocabulary is no [...]
T-minus 1 month.
Hard to believe that Kurt and I will be parents in the next month! We’ve done a pretty decent job of preparing for the upheaval…reading the baby books, taking prenatal courses, eating well and keeping active. My side of the family has thrown a couple of baby showers and all sets of parents have helped [...]
Our baby registry round-up.
With all the stuff we’ve been bombarded with as expecting parents, it sometimes feels like we have to spend a fortune on stuff that is being marketed to us as baby necessities. We’re doing our best to wade through the BS and locate the key pieces that would last us through two kids. Unfortunately, no [...]
Flu frustration.
When you first decide to start a family, the last thing you expect to sift through in the deluge of new-parent info is a pandemic. The H1N1 flu bug has finally landed in BC, causing a lot of stress for me and my husband as we socialize with friends and family this season. Personally, I [...]
Rainbow Connection (Kermit the Frog)
I do love me some Muppets. Of all of the Muppet performances that I have cherished over the years, this song is still capable of making me melt into a puddle of awww. Recently discovered a cover by the talented Jason Mraz, but honestly…who can truly compare to the original performance by Jim Henson as [...]
Our baby as produce.
19 weeks into this pregnancy and my torso has become a foreign landscape. Despite looking as if I have swallowed a melon, I still find the mommy industry’s practice of comparing one’s developing child to a piece of produce to be disconcerting. Each fruit or vegetable that our baby can be likened to in any [...]
Brahms’ Lullaby
I once owned a pink and red Sanrio jewellry box (something like this). It was my most cherished possession for the magic that it possessed inside: a chime that spun a lullaby whenever it opened. Later, I learned that the melody was Brahms’ Lullaby, and that English lyrics existed for me to learn and sing [...]
If It Kills Me (Jason Mraz)
These days, I seem to get all my new music from So You Think You Can Dance. It’s a step up from liking a song because it was attached to a cool music video – if the choreography was killer and the dancers nailed it, chances are that I’m also running to iTunes to snap [...]
A date with oddity.
Congratulations. We have all just experienced the moment that was 12:34:56 7/8/9 – that is, if you can suspend disbelief long enough to forget that this actually occurred 2000 years ago. The rest of the world will tell you that we got the date wrong. If you belong to that camp, mark your calendars for [...]
moving servers yet again.
Can you see this post? Wonderful – that means that you are now seeing the correct site that is now living on my favourite of webhosts, Bluehost. That is all.