A day in the life
Ever since I saw ‘the old guy‘ taking on the stairs just before New Year’s, or maybe even before that, I’d settled in my mind that this would be the […]
Category Archives: The Johnson Way
The Bizzarro Johnsons
If you’ve ever read three or four posts on this blog, you likely deduced that the Johnson parents are pathetically inept when it comes to getting up in the morning. […]
The Adjustment
It’s been three weeks and three days since we ‘welcomed’ the teal Volvo into our lives. It’s been something of an adjustment, for four of us, anyway. The thing of […]
The perfect[ly imperfect] day
Having crawled into bed at a most unreasonable hour, neither the professor nor I were in any shape to greet Saturday morning, or our boy-children. ‘It’s Father’s Day weekend’ he […]
Pillow Talk
It arrived a week ago, this plague-like affliction I’m calling ‘Snotapalooza 2012′. ‘You don’t sound good,’ a preschool mom I ran into at the soccer field told me. ‘Oh, it’s […]
The Mysterious Case of Kraup
I discovered what time it gets light out, this morning – 4:45am, that’s when. Perhaps you’re wondering, why on earth were you awake at 4.45am, on a Sunday no less? […]
The Iron Family
Tuesday, the day that marked our return to normalcy following the much-too-long weekend, was what some might call ‘a spectacular failure’. It began with me waking up at 7.15am and […]
The Long(est) Weekend
It was a four day weekend here in Canadaland, meaning schools kindly refused to admit our children on Friday and Monday under the pretense of ‘developing their teachers’ and ‘celebrating […]
