Links of the Week
I like to spend my weekend being lazy in my pajamas, and hanging out with the kids. I take breaks from my own activities to hike through our forest, make hot chocolate or try beating our little brainiacs at a board game. I don't want to spend my time in [...]
The Day We Made the News
The Skinner-Jamals - photo by Galit Rodan Our family was featured in the Life section of the Globe and Mail today. Check it out here. I like Leah McLaren's unbiased interpretation of our two interviews. I wish she hadn't referred to me as a stay-at-home-mom. I mean, in [...]
Waiting for the Thaw
I am not one to complain about the weather. It seems futile to choose to live in Canada and then complain about the snow. Frankly, I like the white stuff and the cold, and out here on our 30 acres of paradise the snow has never looked more beautiful. I [...]
The Thing About Lassie
My sixteen-month-old son has an obsession. We don't watch a lot of television in our house, so I'm not sure how this even came about. The little man is completely and totally in love with Lassie. I don't mean the old black and white TV series, I mean a very [...]
Teaching Tortoise and Hare
There are so many moments, like the one I'm having right now, where I sit at my desk in our cozy little classroom and I can't believe my life. If you had told a twenty-two year-old me that I would be a stay-at-home mom who was homeschooling three kids in [...]
How Do I Get My Baby to Sleep?
Dear Cat, I’m a dad with a toddler who won’t sleep by himself because we made the decision to co-sleep. I’m nearly positive that his mother and I might actually have more passion in our lives if we could get him to sleep through the night on his own. What are your own experience with babies and sleep? How do I get my baby to sleep? Will my wife and I ever have sex again? Sincerely, Jake […]