a peek inside the fishbowl

If you follow me on Twitter you may recall a thread I posted last year about a praying mantis egg case I bought at Costco, and the results of said egg case. Well I bought one again this year and I realized I never wrote about it here on the blog. What has prompted me to do […]

There is no mistaking the sound of a bird colliding with a window. I didn’t see it happen, but apparently the bird was honing down on an insect and swooped this way instead of that. Mark and the girls flew out of their seats to see what happened. The poor thing didn’t move a muscle […]

It’s Friday… OR IS IT? This shortened work week is making it even harder to keep track. Maybe I’m being a bit harsh but I now tend to bristle when someone asks me “what’s new.” Sometimes I feel like screaming: What’s new? What’s new?? EXACTLY NOTHING BECAUSE EVERY DAY IS THE SAME AS THE ONE BEFORE. But […]

Everything is different now, and birthdays are no exception. The youngest turned 19 on April 11. 19! I can hardly believe it myself. For the record, here’s the post I wrote when she was born. :) So how does one celebrate a milestone birthday in the midst of a pandemic? Here’s how it went down here […]

As I mentioned before, our groceries are done primarily doing the Loblaws Click & Collect but I’ve had to augment this with a couple of in-store visits this past month. One trip was to stock up on groceries for my mother (which the youngest dropped off to her, she lives about 2.5 hours away) and the second […]