midlife, pandemic, youth sports21 Comments

The familiarity of here we go again

December 18, 2021December 18, 2021 Writer of Words, etc

Two days ago a dad of a girl on my daughter’s ringette team said two nearby towns are shutting the league for the remainder of this year.

A day later our league reported a positive case in a U12 team on the house league side. (My kid is U16 rep.)

On the way to pick up my niece at University, my phone interrupted my GPS to announce from various people who chat with me that this and that is getting canceled. Mostly kid activities related to sports.

Even the NHL is on pause, I found out later.

“Out of an abundance of caution…”

That’s the wording they’re using.

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Sound check with Sonja the teenager

December 17, 2021 Writer of Words, etc

My daughter helped me do a sound check on a bluetooth microphone which wasn’t working properly the last time I tried using it and so I solicited her help.

Teenagers know everything, right? 😀

Beagle, blogging, Medium, momlife, Tarot Tuesdays16 Comments

Juggling

October 22, 2021October 25, 2021 Writer of Words, etc

Technically, this is not me. I am not blond, even though I have blond streaks below my dark locks.

a day in the life, midlife, momlife, WoW Jewelry7 Comments

How life has changed and a few other updates

September 30, 2021October 1, 2021 Writer of Words, etc

I’ve been co-parenting my teens while not living at home. It’s been… interesting.

Did you know teens are not chatty? I mean, all this time when I was home with them they stared at their phones, chatted with friends, yada yada… they knew I was there, in the background, ready to pour food into their little gullets, but they didn’t really interact with me too much. Which is completely normal teenage behaviour, I’m not complaining here. They have their lives back now that lockdowns have been eliminated (for how long though? ugh…) Chatting with mom was just not… done. Or something.

Unless they were hungry. 😛

a day in the life, pandemic24 Comments

The perplexities of covid restrictions in Toronto (with pictures)

September 19, 2021September 19, 2021 Writer of Words, etc

Look. I’m fatigued by the subject like most of us are, but I came across a few new tidbits worth sharing now that kids’ activities have opened up.

For instance, arrows.

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Moving on(wards)

September 11, 2021September 11, 2021 Writer of Words, etc

I made an interesting discovery the other day: the five tarot readers I listened to on youtube – while designing jewelry in a quiet house sans kids – all talked about how Libra is either traveling or moving in September. ⚖️♎

They all mentioned this. They all had a similar message for the collective. They all pulled cards and interpreted them from different geographical regions at different times or days. And still, the messages were eerily similar.

It was a bit perplexing. 😀

So weird how the universe works… 😳

Maybe I’ll write up a thing for next Tarot Tuesday on this topic. Stay tuned.

Here’s the thing:

a day in the life, teenagers27 Comments

A few days of solitude

August 7, 2021August 7, 2021 Writer of Words, etc

I’ve taken a bit of a blogging break and I will continue but since it’s 5:00 a.m. on a Saturday and I’m on my second load of laundry I thought I might as well sit here with coffee and have a bit of a chat with you. 😃

The family left for camping on Thursday and they’re coming back I think Sunday or Monday.

I had intentions to do a lot of writing.

That didn’t happen. 🙄