Baby Passports

I had to take the kids in to get passport photos done today, since we’ll be travelling with them outside of Canada. I found a local place with experience in taking photos for different countries (Canada and New Zealand); the requirements are different. For example, Canada wants a white background for the photos, while New [...]

Autumn

The weather has changed here at 49 ° latitude north, the days still warm and sunny, but the nights are cool. The memories of nights when we slept with the fan running and the windows open are receding fast, soon to be filed with memories of previous summers. The windows in the house that were [...]

Northern Voice Questions

Northern Voice is a small Vancouver conference on blogging, and I’m on the organizing committee. We’re gearing up for the 2007 conference, which we were planning on holding in February, but we’ve run into some issues with the venue. So we’ve come up with a survey to ask people who were thinking of attending NV [...]

Coping with Pregnancy

I found a couple of things very useful for my second pregnancy that I didn’t discover for my first - and thought I should blog them in case they’re useful to anybody else. I’m sure any readers with other ideas will add them - I’ll do another post in a bit about some early babyhood [...]