a peek inside the fishbowl

Lordy lor’. Ottawans will right kill each other for a little bit of sweet stuff. We went to Fulton’s sugar bush on Sunday. SUNDAY! Yes. The First Sunday of Sun and Warm Temperatures. So you can imagine what that was like. Once good weather hits, everyone (and I’m including myself of course) goes totally crazy. […]

This morning I woke Sarah up with a whisper: “I made you sushi for breakfast.” “SUSHI?” she exclaimed. “IT’S MY DREAM COME TRUE!” I informed her sister. She was not impressed. “I’m not eating it,” she groused. Sarah put on her clothes as fast as she could and ran downstairs. She saw what I had […]

It started when I pulled out the watercolour paper. I didn’t plan it this way, but their (self-imposed!) “assignment” was to draw imaginary Chinese letters. The sheets became scrolls, with declarations only they could read:   Which then led to the raiding of the dress-up trunk, and this:   And THEN we got hungry: Chinese, […]