I am a PROUD Canadian and today is Canada Day! Canada Day (formerly called Dominion Day) is the day that Canada officially became a country rather than just a British colony. Today, we’ll be heading over to my mom’s house where we’ll have a bonfire, roast hot dogs and marshmallows, eat lots of good food [...]
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I WON!! I WON!!
So Penguin is celebrating 75 years this year and were having a contest to win 75 of their best selling paperbacks. Well, I just got a phone call this morning and I’m one of the winners! I’m so excited. It’s my birthday this weekend and I can’t think of a better birthday present! I’ve looked [...]
33 and a possible giveaway!
So, I just checked my feedburner and I have THIRTY-THREE subscribers! Yay. I know that doesn’t seem like a lot but for me, it’s tons!! Thanks to all of you. My blogiversary (1 year) is quickly approaching. Should I do a giveaway for all you loyal subscribers? Speak now, or forever hold your peace!
The Reason
I meant to post about my new little baby but it slipped my mind until I read another blogger who’s just had a baby.
Here she is – the reason I took such a long blogging break:
Random
Just a couple of things:
1. I haven’t stopped reading, but I have decided to take a little break from blogging. With Christmas and a baby coming at roughly the same time, I’ve been really busy. I hope to be back to blogging sometime in January or February.
2. I’ve been featured at As Usual, I Need [...]
Lest We Forget
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with [...]
