Liberty or Guinea Pigs?

Next week, we are going to visit some friends. These friends live a ferry ride away, in the capital of our province. We will drive to the ferry after work and preschool and visit our friends for a couple of days before heading back home. In June, my daughter and I are flying to New York to visit my brother and his fiancée. I’ve been saving for this trip for a year, and on my daughter’s birthday I’m going to take her to Stomp – she loves percussion and I got discount tickets. While I love seeing our friends, I … Continue reading

Funny Boy Stories

I guess that all of us with young children are always trying to remember the funny things that they have said and done. Tommy called our pantry the “eat closet” and the name has stuck. Very close friends of ours have adopted two little girls from China. When the first one came to this country, she was too young to be talking yet. Matthew Walter was really worried about what our friends would do when she finally started talking in Chinese. On our first Christmas morning as a family, an excited Matthew Walter asked us, “Is today tomorrow?” It has … Continue reading