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Welcome to December, the most wonderful time of the year! This is my month of festive and celebratory joy! Baby Sasja’s birthday is the 16th, my anniversary with Raymond on the 19th (28 years!), my birthday on the 21st, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, then New Year’s Eve, which was my adoption day, something my mum, … Read more

Hi everyone! Just a quick update after the update from last week: I’m experiencing those ongoing hand and arm spasms that make it really hard to type, use a trackpad, peck something out on the iPad keyboard, holding a pen, using a fork or chopsticks, and so much more. (Things are getting better, so that’s good, … Read more

Hi everyone! Sorry we’ve been away for a bit, but so much is going on around us! Last week, starting on November 14th, our region – the Fraser Valley, British Columbia – has endured the worst flooding since the 1940s or possibly ever. We are fine, our house is fine, most of our community is … Read more

Welcome to November, the first day of the Christmas season if the shops around me are any judge! Holy moly, I love Christmas and everything that it represents, but we almost missed celebrating Hallowe’en for all the fruit cakes and German cookies and candy canes lining the aisles. The leaves are turning all manner of … Read more

Happy October! Thanks for joining us here on the blog this month! It’s an exciting one around the Barclay-Nichols’s household as it’s our pup’s birthday today – Sasja’s five, I can’t believe it! – and Raymond’s birthday on the 11th. There’s also Thanksgiving, which is also the 11th – we usually celebrate by doing leftovers, … Read more