perspectives

  • Patience

    My boys….. for this writing I will refer to them as ‘Older one’ and ‘Younger one,’ even if it is tempting to go with ‘thing one’ and ‘thing two.’ -Older one: “I told him he has to get ready right away and everything done when he gets up and then…

  • Spring Beginnings

    It’s felt like a whirlwind end to winter and we are already just over a week into the spring season. As I wrote 2 posts back, my younger son, Owen, was over for hockey provincials in the U13 age group and they won Gold! It was all very exciting, we…

  • Loud Budgets?

    “We are thinking of renting a house boat for a week in the summer. You guys could come…”. She paused and waited for a response. I was looking at her, took a few seconds before responding, “mmm that’s not in our budget.” “Oh come on, with three families together, it’s…

  • Zooming Out

    Coping with world events can be a lot to handle. At a certain point, I just forget about watching the news. I find it helps to either, zoom your focus in on the positive things in your own life (see post last week), or zoom out, way out, into the…