Like Looking In A Mirror

For those of you who are familiar with my little one, this picture is one that'll knock your socks off. it was sent to me by my aunt who thought it looked an awful lot like my girl when she was about this age. And it surely does, to an almost identical degree. But it is actually a picture of my other aunt on my maternal side, when she was a toddler. My curiosity peaked I have asked them to see what other pictures they can find for me. At least that explains why my kid looks nothing like me. I'd be unsure she was actually mine had I not have the scars to proove it. Anyway I thought it'd be interesting to share. Let me know what you think.

Night Terrors

A friend of mine asked me where the hell I've been lately. I never seem to have the opportunity to post as often as I'd like to. Hopefully that will change. My daughter was invited to a sleepover at a classmate's house this weekend. All of the girls in the class are attending. It sounds like it is going to be so much fun with activities like make your own pizza and little contests. My little one is beside herself and she dragged out all the camping gear last night so I wouldn't forget to help her pack. Cute. I'll bet you I can hear them from here.

I never remember having that much fun when I was her age. I don't think we had those kinds of get togethers until we were much older. As for me I have no idea what to do with my time off. Perhaps I will venture out and about to see what kind of trouble I can get into. Maybe I can have a nice hot soak in the tub without any little person pounding on the door. I don't know yet. Anyway that's all for now.

As Of Late

Sorry it has been so long since my last post. Some people have been asking what's up. It has been pretty busy lately. Not so much in the sense of our own adgendas but in that there are those who have needed extra assistance, and it seems that is one of our areas of specialty.

It has been ridiculously cold. Last week friday I had kept my daughter home from school. When I checked the weather that morning it was minus forty-eight. There was absolutely no way I could get her there without frostbite setting in so we hunkered down at home instead. Now we have gone from those temperatures to minus nine today. Good grief. I sense another round of flus and colds coming on. To be honest it is the tourists I feel particularly badly for. They must be beside themselves this year.

My daughter was invited to a classmate's bithday party this weekend. A little boy from kindergarten is turning six on Sunday and they are all going bowling. All we're required to is to drop them off and then we can leave. That's great, let's face it us parents do not want to have to sit through it. It's bad enough to do it when it's for our kid's birthday party. So to be absolved of that is an added bonus. But it'll be nice for the kids not to have their parents hanging around them also. This is an interesting age where they are beginning to seperate themselves from us in an attempt to gain more independence. It's a necessary evil but sometimes I am left to wonder who the alien lifeform is who has taken over my beautiful baby.

I'm going to make this one short I'm afraid. We have skating tonight and we'll be leaving shortly. Until next time.

Christmas Is Back In The Basement

Well the holiday decorations are safely tucked back into their respective boxes. We dismantled the tree today. After which it dawned on me that I never bothered to take any pictures of the thing as it stood for the first time in our new house. I'm getting lax it would seem. The thing did not go down without a fight though and for the briefest of moments, was actually winning. We prevailed over it finally and were able to wrestle it back into the basement, though we came away with scrapes and gashes of verious sizes and descriptions. That is typical of our christmas tree however and we have a long standing history of such encounters. Usually all ending much the same as this one did.

Now what remains to be taken down are the decorations on the outside of the house. I must be honest when I say that I am in no hurry to scale a ladder in snow and ice, and pry out staples attaching heavy cords to the trim two-stories up. Moreover I am vehemently opposed to falling from such heights. I always end up atop the ladder with no one holding it. They all cut bait and run on the off chance I should drop the hammer. Do they not realize that I'm a much larger weight to fall on them if they don't hold me steady? Jeepers. I don't want to leave the lights where they are until spring because they are large and I don't want to chance them being stolen. I also don't want to have people think that I am tacky. Not to mention that the lights actually belong to the neighbour, so they aren't even mine to keep. I suppose then that I'll just have to wait for a nice day and head up that bloody ladder with a set of pliers and a prayer. It's not something I look forward to in any case. Anyways, wish me luck. I'll write again soon.

The New Year's Here!....So?

I must be getting old. I managed to miss ringing in the new year for the second year in a row. And not because I didn't make the effort to stay up for it. But because I simply wasn't paying that much attention to it. I didn't notice that the clock had struck midnight until about one o'clock. At this age I guess I can't be bothered to care as much as I once did in my younger days. I did not make any new year's resolutions this year. Several years ago I would vow to quit smoking annually. I would then ring in the new year resolved to follow through with my decision. Around forty-five minutes later and determination having given way to weakness, I would be found hiding in the bathroom, feverishly sucking the death out of a cigarette. Old habits are sure hard to break. So this year I didn't even bother.

There are some things that I do want to see happen for us in the year 2007. We had taken a gamble a few months ago to move to the city. It was a risky move because we have no resources should things fall through for us. We decided to proceed anyway as I had just finished retraining and the career opportunities are abundant in a large urban setting. So that's one of the things I want for this coming year. I want to see our investment yield a rich return. I have big plans in terms of what I want the future to hold for my daughter and I. But they are by no means unrealistic as far as my ability to achieve them for us. So I would like to see things begin to come to fruition over the course of this new year.

Other minor things include maybe joining the Y and finding a hobby for me. My little one is involved in all sorts of clubs and activities, and I can find myself a tad jealous at times that she has so many well defined and developed interests and skill sets. When I am often hard pressed to be able to adequately express my favourite colour anymore. So I definitely want to find something new to do. Whether it be physical like climbing, tae kwon do, or working out; or maybe something creative like writing, or scrapbooking. We shall see. I plan on exploring a few avenues to see what suits me best.

Least important on my list of things to accomplish in the year 2007 is also the thing that will occur first. I would like to be able to stop myself from writing 2006 when I date everything. Happy New Year!