I Think My Bedtime Stories Have To Improve

On March 14, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In At home, Parenting

A month ago, Naomi and I started a new bed­time rou­tine of “chat time” with Kai, intend­ing for it to be a chance for us to talk about our day. It started off really well, with Kai eager to come up with stuff to talk about, and lis­ten to our sto­ries of what we did […]

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Merry Christmas From A New Home

On December 25, 2012 · 1 Comment · In At home

It feels really good to be in a new home, and one that is long term and free from the whims of land­lords and ever-increasing rents.

With­out actu­ally giv­ing away our address, we’re happy we’re in rel­a­tive seclu­sion where night time tem­per­a­tures are actu­ally sev­eral degrees cooler than the rest of the island, and where […]

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Easter bunnies

On April 8, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In At home

Naomi made the most inge­nious plans ever hatched in try­ing to keep two active but sick with flu kids (one 3 year old and one 4 year old) enter­tained through­out the Easter weekend.

Because they’ve been sick for a whole week, they weren’t able to social­ize (Kai’s birth­day party was can­celled), and we had no […]

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Love is

On February 15, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In At home

We triple dated this Valentine’s night — Naomi and I, our friends Lau­rel & Syl­vain, Kai and their daughter Alaia.

If you’d asked any of the adults three years ago if we’d have imag­ined our­selves spend­ing Valentine’s Day like this and enjoy­ing every sin­gle sec­ond of it, we’d have stared at you, then […]

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Chinese Christmas

On December 22, 2011 · 2 Comments · In At home, Eating

It has been a mad year and a bit, and last night I was com­ment­ing to Naomi that I feel as if I’ve been run off my feet. It could have been tired­ness from work. It could also have been the beers and wine I took try­ing to ame­lio­rate the tiredness.

I decided this week […]

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Without a doubt

On August 1, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In At home

We were look­ing through Naomi’s old pho­tos try­ing to com­pile a slide show for her brother’s memo­r­ial gath­er­ing, and nat­u­rally spent a lot of time look­ing at many other fam­ily photos.

What struck us, was of course how much Kai looks like his mother. Will you just lookadat!

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The beginnings of Alzheimer’s and the loss of healing

On June 8, 2011 · 2 Comments · In At home

This morn­ing I took my father to his quar­terly cardiologist’s check-up, and while wait­ing our turn, I spoke to him about what I’d been up to at work — about so-and-so that was his client and now mine who called me ask­ing a favour — and he had some dif­fi­culty remem­ber­ing who I was talking about.

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We will test your water to see if it is wet

On April 1, 2011 · 5 Comments · In At home, Living

About two months ago, our tap water turned brown, and we got the PUB in to check what was wrong. They had come, turned on the taps, looked at the muddy water, ummed and ahhed a lot with­out doing anything.

We then per­suaded them to take a sam­ple of dis­col­ored water back to their high […]

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Cleaning up the birdshit

On March 16, 2011 · 6 Comments · In At home

It will have been one month this week­end since my mother’s pass­ing. We’ve kept busy and we’ve tried to keep our emo­tions at bay for the most part, allow­ing our­selves only spurts of griev­ing. I still hope that maybe if I keep busy for long enough, I might let the pas­sage of time dull grief.

But […]

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Mobile roaming

On March 8, 2011 · 2 Comments · In At home, The Ingterneck

Some of my late mother’s friends, on hear­ing of her pass­ing, took to tex­ting her on her mobile with trib­utes and mes­sages of how shocked they were and how much they would miss her.

I kept her mobile, an Phone4, for a few days before I passed it to my sis­ter, who’ll be keeping […]

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