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Girls and Trucks

My tod­dler daugh­ter loves trucks; she’ll glee­fully point them out on the street and in books until you’re sick of the word. So just before her birth­day, there was me in the toy store look­ing at truck-related toys for her (trucks, trains, cars, other assor­ted toy vehicles) try­ing to pick out some­thing that didn’t entirely […]

2008 06 09 Comments (10)

BPA — Who’s Prepared?

Bisphenol-A, a chem­ical found in many of those hard plastic water bottles (look for polycar­bon­ates with the recyc­ling num­ber 7, although not all of those have BPA in them) has been in the news recently, cul­min­at­ing in today’s announce­ment of a ban of baby bottles con­tain­ing BPA by Health Canada. This con­tin­ues a trend from […]

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2008 04 18 Comments (9)

Sunday Amusement

Even if you don’t have kids, you might find the sight of some out­fits people dress their kids up in to be amus­ing — 8 Good Examples Of What Hap­pens When Geeks Have Chil­dren (found in the Ravelry geekcraft forum).

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2008 03 09 General Comments (0)

And it’s only Thursday

I sure hope this week is a one-off. Noth­ing major, no life-threatening issues, just a bunch of annoy­ing smal­ler things that all came at once. While Tim’s away. Monday: go to drive Tim to the air­port; he’s away until Fri­day. The oil sensor light comes on in the car. Tim gets a cab, and I get […]

2008 01 24 Comments (1)

‘Tis the Season to be Frazzled

If I have a New Year’s Res­ol­u­tion, it’s to not let next year’s year-end become as stressed. And to get enough sleep. Both of these hold a longer story that I don’t have the energy to tell right now. Tim pos­ted some; in the last couple of days oth­ers have got sick (there seems to […]

2008 01 05 Comments (0)

Toddler Books

Our tod­dler daugh­ter (18 months old) likes hav­ing books read to her. Some of them are def­in­ite favour­ites, to be read as often as pos­sible, while oth­ers are the ones she likes when she’s told to go and get another book. They’re not neces­sar­ily books I would choose myself, but it’s not my taste that […]

2007 12 17 Books Comments (6)