As is the tradition around here, I generally liveblog the day to save it for posterity. (2009| 2008 | 2007| 2006 | 2005 | 2003). I didn’t feel like doing that today so instead I am going to play around with my Kodak Zi8 camera and shoot some video of my day. I have a [...]
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Vacation 2010
Wendy and I have been talking about vacation plans in 2010. We are starting now because 2009 was a vacation debacle. Three of the four extended times away I had to come into work. It wasn’t so much works fault but staff were sick or injured and we didn’t have enough staff at the time [...]
Christmas Gift Guide: The Outdoorsman
In case you are shopping for the great outdoorsman, here are a list of suggestions for those who often prefer to outdoors rather than inside. Check out the Christmas gift ideas category if you are looking for other Christmas Gift Guides.
Straight from the Leftorium, the MEC Left Handed Slingpack. Wendy has had a slingpack [...]
Christmas Gift Guide: My Wishlist (Christmas ideas for a father of two great kids)
I do most of the Christmas shopping in our house which leaves Wendy to get my gift. I generally update my Amazon.com wishlist and use their universal wish list button to create on central wish list for her and Mark. Our goal is to be done Christmas shopping by December 1st every year and we [...]
Online Christmas Hamper Applications
For those of you who know if a family who may need some help this Christmas, the Salvation Army Community Centre is accepting online applications for Christmas Hampers starting today. You can also register in person starting November 16th. If you have questions about what the Salvation Army is doing in Saskatoon over the Christmas [...]
Done
Well Mark brought home his report card and when I joked that he was going to be in grade three again, he wept (and I felt horrible). So I quickly assured him not only did he pass but he did well. The truth is that despite having a horrible year at school, his marks were [...]
Easter Weekend
Around here it is a four day long weekend which is nice. Mark is off school for a week and I have had two additional shifts this week already so I am looking forward to some time off.
As is tradition about the house, we are taking in the Draggins Rod and Custom Car Show at [...]
Mailbag
I haven’t done a mailbag post in a long time but there was over 50 e-mails from people about Mark being bullied and just over 93% and all of the comments were supportive of Mark and how Wendy and I handled it.
Most of you sent in your own stories of being bullied or stories of [...]
The season we call Christmas
I have been in Christmas mode for a while. At work we tend to start it on the day that the Christmas Kettles go out as we start accepting Christmas Hamper applications around the same day. Wendy was in decorating the Residential Unit at the Centre (we decorate a couple of days later than everyone [...]
Turkey, turkey, and more turkey
It’s Thanksgiving around here and to celebrate it we had planned to spend it at the lake. That didn’t work out so well as Lee got sick and needed a day to sleep it off and so we planned to go south today to the lake but then we heard of a massive snowfall warning. [...]
The Long Weekend
After working this last long weekend and then seeing too many doctors, we got away to the cabin for a couple of days of nothingness on Monday afternoon. Wendy packed the car while I got a couple of hours of sleep. We got away a little later than normal and I had thought that we [...]
The Long Weekend
We are enjoying the long weekend around the Cooper household by doing a bunch of yard work. We still have an abandoned lot behind us which means that I have a yard full of dandelions. While I do my best to stay eco friendly, I went out yesterday and bought a bunch of weed and [...]
Christmas 2007
So Christmas 2007 has come and gone. It was an odd one for me. I enjoyed it and Wendy blogged about it here (and she blogged about Boxing Day here). This is Mark’s seventh Christmas and he was the same age I was when my dad walked out a couple weeks [...]
Happy Holidays
Well as I post this I am ready for Christmas. Every fall I start a spreadsheet and over the following months it gets refined and items picked up. We were done the bulk of the shopping well before the craziness of Christmas shopping hits and I actually made two trips to the 24 hour Wal-Mart [...]
So how does one make a difference?
I was reading some comments, IM, and e-mail in response to my last post. Instead of editing my post, I am going to offer up some further thoughts.
I grew up in the church and therefore Christmas productions. It was a lot of rehearsals and time that I could have been playing road hockey and in [...]
