Yes! I was thinking the same thing. It’s the Cat in the Hat of country.

Thankful on both counts!

My dad is the total opposite. He’s a nurse, and as a group, nurses have zero sense of embarrassment for anyone about anything. Any period questions I asked my mom, she would ask my father and get back to me with “what dad said”. When I went grocery shopping with him, he’d pick up a box up Tampex, hold it up and shout…

Didn’t watch the video, but considering the heat energy my gas stove puts into the pan of water for several minutes when i boil an egg, and comparing that to a cup of coffee that is typically not even at boiling point, I’m guessing there’s no way this could work

Nice.

Thank-you. I was quite pleased with how they turned out.

I left husband with three pans of sourdough cinnamon buns ready to rise and bake when I went to work this week. One in the fridge and two in the freezer as an experiment. This is a picture of last week’s Batch.

The in laws are tricky. I get off easy with family being most of a continent away. I told my kids the nativity story, and that “Jesus a teacher, whom some people believe was god. I don’t, but he taught some good things.”

A Christmas picture book I really like is “Pocket’s Christmas Wish”. It talks about a meaning of Christmas that is both mom-religious and non-commercial.

Atheist here, who was raised Catholic. We celebrate Christmas and Easter with our kids, pretty much as I grew up with it, minus the going to Mass part. I struggled with this when my kids were little - wondering whether there was meaning in secular celebrations. As my kids have gotten older, my concerns went away. The…

I was 35 when I had my daughter, and 37 when my twins were born. The job market had a lot to do with their timing. If we’d been stably employed earlier we probably would have had our kids sooner. They were both easy pregnancies and everything went smoothly, but I think it might have been easier to recover physically…

I always sneak peas into my carbonara. Looks delicious!

Hmmm. Alberta has always seemed to me to be the most American of provinces. But there was plenty of oil money and oil barons before there was any development of the oil sands. And some of the most right wing parts of the province are more based in agriculture than in the oil industry.

Well the posters in the public health nurse’s office here all say “talk by 2, understand me by 3". That’s their guideline for identifying problems. Lots of kids talk a bit sooner. So you’re maybe getting pretty close to words soon.

As a not-young-anymore adult, I can tell you it does get better and easier. Order take-out, watch Netflix, and breathe. I think you’re exactly right that everything is a learning experience so when it’s bad it does suck. Like parents with their first baby who worry about everything, but they can relax with the second…

Feel better soon so you can go driving in your new car!

Nominate Myra Bennet!

I watched Fargo once, ages ago, and don’t recall much of the plot. But this scene has stuck in my head as one of the sweetest portrayals of married life.

Is this a real flyer?? Good lord! The WHO guideline for fluoride is 1.5 mg/ litre water, and typical fluoridation levels are 0.5 to 1 mg per litre. The high end of that range is 1 part per million. So assuming those numbers are in fluid ounces, that 10 lb baby needs to drink 10000 fluid ounces, or nearly 300 litres of…

Congrats on the paper grade! Nicely done!