Category: At home

  • Easter bunnies

    Naomi made the most ingenious plans ever hatched in trying to keep two active but sick with flu kids (one 3 year old and one 4 year old) entertained throughout the Easter weekend. Because they’ve been sick for a whole week, they weren’t able to socialize (Kai’s birthday party was cancelled), and we had no…

  • Love is

    We triple dated this Valentine’s night – Naomi and I, our friends Laurel & Sylvain, Kai and their daughter Alaia. If you’d asked any of the adults three years ago if we’d have imagined ourselves spending Valentine’s Day like this and enjoying every single second of it, we’d have stared at you, then ignored you…

  • Chinese Christmas

    It has been a mad year and a bit, and last night I was commenting to Naomi that I feel as if I’ve been run off my feet. It could have been tiredness from work. It could also have been the beers and wine I took trying to ameliorate the tiredness. I decided this week…

  • Without a doubt

    We were looking through Naomi’s old photos trying to compile a slide show for her brother’s memorial gathering, and naturally spent a lot of time looking at many other family photos. What struck us, was of course how much Kai looks like his mother. Will you just lookadat!

  • The beginnings of Alzheimer’s and the loss of healing

    This morning I took my father to his quarterly cardiologist’s check-up, and while waiting our turn, I spoke to him about what I’d been up to at work – about so-and-so that was his client and now mine who called me asking a favour – and he had some difficulty remembering who I was talking…