January 2009 was a rather exciting month.  Three of Jose’s uncles (Eric, Win and Wil) and one of Jose’s cousins (Eric) came from El Salvador on a work visa to work for Jose’s mum’s company, Cleanrite.  They just missed a really cold spell, but the weather was still zero and with plenty of snow, neither of which [...]

I thought for tonight’s post I’d put up a little dictionary of Julia-isms.  I started back to school today (just teachers), and after 5 hours of sitting through meetings, I have quite the headache that meds aren’t touching.  Needless to say, this will be a much shorter post than last night’s. hokey – porcupine nacky [...]

I finished off with Claire and Miguel’s wedding in my first post, and that was kind of the last major event of the summer.  However, I missed an extremely important occasion: Julia’s birthday!  Julia turned two on the 8th, and we had a Dora party for her.  Julia absolutely loves “Doda” and it’s pretty easy [...]

Before I sally forth with the rest of the summer, I’d like to share a conversation from yesterday.  It was in regards to the new snails we’d picked up at the pet store to live in the vase with my aquatic plant. James had the honour of holding the bag in the car on the [...]

Ok, this is getting ridiculous.  I haven’t posted since Christmas!!!!!  I’m so very sorry.  I’m going to give a description of our summer, then I’ll flash back in time to fill readers in (if we still have any) on what’s been going on prior to this.  I’m determined to get SOMETHING posted, so even if [...]