Category: parenting sure is fun

More Hits Than Misses Is Not Just A Battleship Goal

I’m trying desperately to raise decent fairly independent humans. I see all the blog posts. And then I see all the rebuttals to all the blog posts, telling me that the original posts are all wrong. We should helicopter our kids. We shouldn’t helicopter them! We should tell our kids…

Winter Part Deux and Mogwai Rules

My Timehop app tells me that two years ago on this exact day I was complaining about the sNOw outside my window which leads me to believe that we always fool ourselves into thinking that spring is spring in Toronto. Spoiler alert: It’s not. It’s Winter Part Deux. BRB, going…

Progress

This morning Emily had a 10:30 start at school. This meant that she got to sleep in. At 10am I walked past her room and though, hmmm, it’s weird that I haven’t seen her. Usually in the mornings she’s in my closet searching for clothes and in my kitchen searching…