The due date is Thursday. It’s nearly Tuesday. Noah and Nellie were both early. Mélanie is waiting and wanting our Lila-Jeanne to join us on this side of the womb. Calls and emails are picking up from friends and family but it’s still round belly news on our end.
Mé is a champion. It’s been the […]
There are about 15 houses on each side of the street on our block. Just one side of the street, the one facing us, has a sidewalk. That side is the high activity zone during Hallowe’en beginning just after dusk. Noah and Nellie are dressed up and off we go into our first trick-or-treating adventure […]
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“I recommend women in the latter stages of their pregnancy not wait even a week for unadjuvanted vaccine.” This is the quote from Nova Scotia’s Chief Public Health Officer that greeted me in the Halifax edition of Metro on Tuesday morning. There was a similar statement in the online version of The Chronicle Herald. Trouble […]
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Tout le monde en parle is rounding out the weekend - always a list of interesting guests and often a provocative perspective on what is happening in politics, the arts, pop culture and sports. Mé is beside me thoughts roundly fixed on her belly. “I would have liked to have had the baby this weekend,” […]
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Nellie-Rose is graduating. She’s in a transition mode right now, in the process of being liberated from her high chair. The potential messy quotient of the food along with her gigotage levels - wriggliness - are the key determinants as to whether or not it will be another meal strapped in behind a plastic tray.
Noah-David […]
As far as I know, Noah’s viewing of Disney’s animated The Jungle Book more than a year ago was not a defining moment. I was barely able to get him to sit through part of the jazzed out temple bacchanalia. Now he’s doing what he calls the ‘monkey dance’ complete with simian sound effects as […]
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Noah-David is now a three mornings a week lad at pre-school. We’re into our fourth week and he still occasionally asks if he can stay at home. We haven’t succumbed to these requests as yet because we want to establish a pattern and expectation of leaving the house and participating in a learning/play environment with […]
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Occasionally I clock some beyond Nova Scotia travel with my job. Most recently, it was off to Ottawa for a professional development opportunity. A quick trip - two days on the road. Day one is a series of serendipitous encounters.
In the seats in front of me on the plane are a mom and three cute […]
We’re out of the house and skirting the harbour, early morning after the school rush. Noah asks, “Where is Avignon, papa?” as he bursts into a chorus of Sur le pont d’Avignon. This is our standard musical accompaniment when crossing bridges everywhere. It’s been in vogue now for about two years and shows no sign […]
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Over at Cole Harbour Place, we step out of the library and walk over to the ice rinks. There’s a practice going on. The guys can’t be much older than 14, bantams I guess with some sweet afternoon ice time. They’re doing a drill - take the puck, turn, skate and shoot.
I get a […]
