Owner: a hippie with a minivan... URL:http://paxye.com/blog Join Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:07:43 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: I am a sahm of three boys living in small town Québec.
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It’s snowing!! 2007-11-22 11:23:15 We got a little snow on tuesday and the boys were so excited… it stayed but wasn’t much to play with…
Today however, we got a real snowfall… and it isn’t done yet…
The boys had a lot of fun playing in the snow for about 2 hours!
Not the same street… 2007-11-21 08:04:30 Here is an article that appeared recently in the NY times
There is a new DVD out&hellip
; Sesame Street: Old School… I really have to get my hands on that one!!!
However, the DVD comes with a warning… Adults only…
here is a bit of the article..
Sunny days! The earliest episodes of “Sesame Street” are available on digital video! Break out some Keebler products, fire up the DVD player and prepare for the exquisite pleasure-pain of top-shelf nostalgia.
Just don’t bring the children. According to an earnest warning on Volumes 1 and 2, “Sesame Street: Old School” is adults-only: “These early ‘Sesame Street’ episodes are intended for grown-ups, and may not suit the needs of today’s preschool child.”
Say what? At a recent all-ages home screening, a hush fell over the room. “What did they do to us?” asked one Gen-X mother of two, finally. The show rolled, and the sweet trauma came flooding back. What they did to us was hard-core. Man, was that scene
Happy Birthday Khéna! 2007-11-28 06:46:11 So a year has passed that Khéna was born… it is amazing each time I think about it…
Khéna is an amazingly happy baby. He is always smiling, laughing or trying to make others laugh. He is walking but can’t get up without holding onto something yet. So often if he falls he just crawls right over to somewhere he can get up and then he walks again…
He says mama, dada and “thank you”… what cool first words… he also calls the cat “do do” because we always say “doux doux” (gentle gentle) when he pins the cat down.
Though we haven’t weighed him in 2-3 weeks, I think that his weight gain has stopped… hopefully he might even lose a few pounds… he wears size 2 or 3 but can only wear pyjama pants or jogging pants because his waist is just too big so he needs the stretch…
As far as teeth.. he had 6 for a few months now and just last week a seventh came out, so the other should not be in too l Read more:Happy
, Birthday
, Happy Birthday
Looking back on Freebirth… 2007-11-28 06:01:41 I can’t believe that it has already been a year already.
A year has passed from the day that my baby was born, into our hands, in a pool in the living room of our house. A birth attended only by his father and his brothers.
An experience that was not only exhilarating, empowering but also healing for myself.
My choice to have an unassisted pregnancy and an unassisted birth was first due to the lack of midwifery access. There are no birthing centres in my region and midwifes are not allowed to practise out side of them. The birthing centres that are out of region do not take women out of region because they are too much in demand. It was a decision that was first made for me since there was no way that I would ever go see a doctor for a pregnancy or a birth. The decision did not scare me&hellip
;. instead I felt relief.
I knew that having a UP/UC was the best choice.
Now… I look back at the pregnancy. There was so much less stress being unassisted. No appointments, no refusi
beautiful day… 2007-12-17 14:13:23 It’s the calm after the storm and a great day to see just how much snow has fallen&hellip
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I went out and played with the boys all morning… we went for a walk and they climbed and slid in the front yard and jumped from the hill on our front lawn..
I also moved the car so that the snow removal truck can come and do the rest of our driveway so that we could get the garbage bins out later…
Some more pics…
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow…. 2007-12-16 21:16:56 So&hellip
; it snowed today…
I am so happy that I did my groceries yesterday because litterally we are pretty much snowed in and the roads are said to be very dangerous today…
So… We got about 2 1/2 feet…
it is a bit crazy… Simon is out shovelling as I write… and of course he had left the shovel next to the shed… and the other is buried in the front yard…
I tried to get some pics of how high the snow is but it is a bit hard because of the reflection and we can’t open the back door…
and here is the front yard…
just to compare… this is what it looks like with less snow…
and here is a pic of Xavier coming in from playing… it was about -25 with the wind…
neglecting the blog… 2007-12-11 08:48:03 I have been neglecting the blog lately&hellip
; not much to say… just life as usual…
Over the weekend we had friends over, played in the snow and made sushi… and then on Sunday we went To Simon’s work party for the kids… In the past years it was held at a School but this year it was at the “Just for Laughs” Museum… Which had the potential of being cool but the entrance was bottle necked so it was about a 30-40 min wait just to go upstairs… and then finally when we got up it was really unorganized and where we sat to eat lunch had a bar feel… dark and a bit dingy… really not what we expected…
The boys did seem to have fun though… I think Colin has a bit of the same anxiety as me when it comes to crowds though…
Being a X-mas party of course there was Santa Clause… as I have said before in the past, I don’t agree with trying to get the kids to believe in Santa… it doesn’
changing the language around breastfeeding… 2007-12-22 08:57:52 I have talked about this a few times already here on my blog&hellip
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Why is it that the breastfeeding
is always compared to Formula in a way that makes is sound like Formula is the norm and that breastfeeding just better… It makes is sound like yeah sure breastfeeding is great but Formula is good enough… and of course no one is perfect so really why breastfeed?
The problem is… Breastfeeding is the norm… Formula can be dangerous and the choice between breastfeeding and Formula is not a simple choice to make, children die because they are not breastfed, really it should not be a choice at all… we need to make the language
reflect that.
Here is a Hathor comic that is a great example…
(oh… and just a disclaimer… I got a few comments and e-mails from some moms who seem to love to hate this blog…Though I do believe that it should not be a choice, I do know that Formula is sometimes that lesser of two evils and that the choice is
a few more snow pics… 2008-03-09 21:10:04 Here are some pics from outside…
you can see the garbage bin… but the recyling bin is covered…
The boys walking in the yard (they are higher than the gallery)
No more stairs…
a bit surreal seeing Xavier walk by the kitchen window…
Blizzard…. 2008-03-09 09:54:35 Another blizzard hit over the weekend….
Not only did it hit… but it pounded and drowned us….
Just to get an idea…. here is a pic I took last week… (monday I think)
Look outside… just a few inches… nothing more… (that is Sparky btw )
Then yesterday…. this is what it looked like when I was coming [...] Read more:Blizzard
My new sewing area! 2008-03-09 09:40:09 My sewing area was pretty small for the work that I was doing… so I decided that I needed to revamp it a bit…
So I have been keeping my eye on tables on Kijiji and looking for other ways to organize…. Then yesterday I went to Zellers to pick up a few things and saw [...]
Feminism and unschooling and more… 2008-03-07 08:32:04 Here is an article that was shared with me recently…
Learning Curve
Feminism
is a funny thing…
For some it may mean that women need to be completely independent, need to work, not have kids and not go into any other role than the independent womyn figure that would never trust a man if her life depended on [...]
I am so tired of being sick… 2008-03-05 07:04:27 We though we were doing pretty well this year until a few weeks ago… then our systems started to fail us…
colds, coughs, stuffy and runny noses, junky lungs and fevers have made us all miserable in the last few weeks…
during the night, the night before last, I asked Simon to stay home because I was [...] Read more:tired
newish theme… 2008-03-02 13:24:19 With the boys growing the graphic that I had before was getting a bit outdated…. so…. I thought I would revamp the theme of the blog a bit…
I have a few changes that I would like to make still and I think I would like a new plugin or two that I have seen on [...]
oh…. cool… 2008-02-29 06:51:01 On the way to and from the pulp and paper museum I saw something that not only caught my eye but made my heart skip a beat…
“Musée des Religions du Monde” (Museum of World religions)
I am so excited to check that place out… I have a feeling that the kids are too young to enjoy [...]
simon, the cat, and the rat… 2008-02-28 12:23:13 So Xavier is starting to read more words… the “at” words are easy for him now so I have been writing down a few things using those words and a few others that he knows and he has been reading them… what I really like about it is that this is really boosting his confidence [...]
so… I went swimming… 2008-02-28 07:14:55 and I overdid myself the first day, I think I was a bit over enthusiastic… I did about 20 laps and by the time I was getting into the car I was already sore… I was sore most of the night but wasn’t too bad the next day… just a bit tender…
I went again on [...]
Xavier got a haircut! 2008-03-11 20:41:11 We have been asking him for a while now if he wanted to get it cut and he always says no… the problem with the long hair though is that he doens’t want to brush it and never wants to tie it… so it was always in knots and in his eyes…
Over the weekend though [...]
a little funny… 2008-03-20 11:14:32 Colin just came up to me to cuddle… but wanted some sympathy also… so he said…
“Mommy… I am so sad”
so I asked why…
“I hurt myself…” he said…
I asked his where he hurt himself and he said that he hit his head on the fridge…
So I said that I don’t mind cuddling him of course, but [...] Read more:little
Endo appt… 2008-03-20 08:48:08 We had the appointment at the Endo on Monday…
and… as I expected and really just knew all along, everything is completely normal with Khéna….
He is a big healthy boy.
Yes, He is very overweight, and off the charts at a bit over 18 kilos or 40lbs… but everything is normal…
They did mention that if he maintains [...]
Cabane à Sucre… 2008-03-22 21:47:45 We went to the same place as we did last year… it is so hard to find a great Sugar Shack… there are so many here and they are so commercial that often the feeling of being at the Sugar Shack is lost….
Anyway… here is our day… and mostly our food… (all traditional Québécois “Cabane [...]
The best Chocolate cake I have ever made… 2008-03-22 20:56:18 It was Simon’s birthday 2 weeks ago and I wanted to make him happy with chocolate… which is something that he loves…
So I searched for the best chocolate cake recipe and fell on one on this blog…
I did adapt it a bit to make it more dark and gooey…. but omg… it was good!
CAKE
2 [...] Read more:Chocolate
wanting to go back home… 2008-03-25 09:14:26 Though I was born in Montreal, I was raised in BC for critical childhood years of my childhood…
Nelson, BC in the late 70’s/early 80’s was a unique place to live… it is still unique.
My mom and I found a great community there… the friends that we made quickly became our family… when we left it [...] Read more:wanting
Salmon… stuffed and smothered… 2008-03-27 13:55:45 This is a recipe that even the fish hater in my family likes…
Like most of my recipes… amounts are approx…
butterfly a Salmon filet and stuff with crumbled goat cheese, tarragon, salt and pepper…. and place in a baking dish…
In a bowl Mix together about 1/4c of sour cream and 3 tbsp of Mayonnaise, add to [...]
opening the blog a bit more… 2008-03-27 13:15:13 A while back, for spam and privacy reasons I had closed the blog to comments from unregistered users… I have decided to try again and leave things open..
Of course, registration still has its advantages in that there are posts that might not be out in the open and you can get notifications of new posts [...]
custom recycled pants.. 2008-03-27 07:40:52 With Khéna’s “weird” shape… finding pants that fit has been a task to say the least… I knew I could make some but I was a bit scared of patterns… but I finally decided to try… however… just like pants don’t fit… patterns don’t fit… so I found a pattern that I had bought at [...] Read more:custom
My first Etsy purchase… 2008-03-27 06:50:47 I think it was more than a year ago that I started getting comments on my pics from Blanche… we friended each other and everytime she would share her husbands work on Flickr I would drool… He makes hand made lamp work glass beads… I just knew that I HAD to get something one day…
So [...]
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