It’s dark but mild. The wind, remnrants of that destructive Kentucky tornado, swept away all the white Christmassy snow.
I sit in my jacket but without my winter coat in the driver’s seat of my twenty year old car.
I can see the arena from my vantage point.
Continue reading “Practice night”
With the return of almost-normal activities the kids have had a re-entry to the rink in ways that seem almost identical to the way it used to be.
Continue reading “Rink life, social life and two short videos”
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.
Continue reading “The perplexities of covid restrictions in Toronto (with pictures)”
I’m a bit discombobulated today, all over the place with my thoughts. I started out doing a sports registration for a kid which reminded me some of the canceled activities during lockdown resulted in credits issued. I had to go searching through emails and financial accounts to find out what was reimbursed, whether it was a credit on their account for future activity or on my credit cards, how much of it was there that I could apply to now, etc. There is so much online activity these days, I mean, how does on live without the internet today? Especially … Continue reading How a simple 5-minute activity turned into an hour-long ordeal
Yesterday evening, I took my kid to the rink for the first time in seven-ish months. She had to be dressed in full gear except for helmet and skates. There would be no dressing rooms available, no parents allowed into the arena, no use of the water fountain to refill bottles of water.
How the world has changed. Continue reading “The coming months of isolation”
So this morning I ate nutella on toast because apparently, I’m 12. 😳
I also made soup and looked for my reading glasses. That killed about an hour. 🙄
(The soup was chicken and the glasses were on my head.) 😐
Yesterday I updated our calendar with the newly scheduled kids’ activities.
Despite the covid numbers rising in Toronto, youth sports is gearing up to get those kids back to the rink.
This is 🇨🇦 after all…
Continue reading “Youth sports, school, and a short story update”
Good morning from the inside of a hotel room.
Why yes, I travel during coronavirus…but don’t worry, I didn’t fly to other continents. I’m not on a cruise ship. I’m not even using mass transit. Continue reading “Girl trip”
On some days, the slightest thing can cause me to feel major anxiety.
And yet, the same exact thing another day may not even register on my brain.
I don’t get it. Continue reading “Part-time anxiety issues”
Look. I have been a mom of preschoolers. I have been a mom of fidgety kids. I have been a mom in rink lobbies and dressing rooms for over a decade.
I. Get. It. 😶 Continue reading “Heightened state of annoyance”
I will begin my story with the happy ending: I’m home, no one was hurt, maimed, killed or sent to jail today despite the weather that could have caused all of the above, and I have tea and a pecan butter tart.
Still interested in my many mishaps? Read on, then…
So last night I took my daughter to a bubble. This bubble: Continue reading “In the bubble”
My 11yo daughter, a kid with a natural social disposition as well as a desire to be involved in activities, has been invited to volunteer in the Learn to Skate program.
So after her final baseball game on Saturday morning, which ended in a silver medal, I took her out for a donut and then home for a bite to eat. After that, we went to the rink. 😃
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