Category: Family

Today we have a collage of pictures I took of the kids as they skated around the Ice path at Sir Samuel Smith park. It was a fun outing, though by the end of it was really snowing.

With Melissa back at work I find dinner prep resting on just me. Finding a variety of food that the kids will eat can be a bit of a challenge. Tonight we had BBQ pork chops with a side of pasta and veggie (peas and carrots(. They both seemed to enjoy it, though Violet wanted more pasta than pork chops.

Over the last few weeks I’ve watched my social media feeds be filled up with photo and video montages of the year that was. What once was only done by companies and big organizations is now available to every who uses social media, with a few clicks of the mouse the year that was is summed up in images and or video. It’s a cool feature, but it relies on you sharing your year with your social networks. It also has the problem that just because you shared it doesn’t mean you want to have it thrown in your face again.

When I saw the first people posting their year in review I went to my Facebook to see what a great year I had, only to be greeted by a disappointing trip through the year in photos. My first thought was how could this be, I mean I post a picture every day, how can that be all that Facebook felt was worth remembering. Of course then it hit me, I don’t share my photos on Facebook, I share them on my blog and share my blog to Facebook. Meaning Facebook doesn’t see my photos, just my posts, and it didn’t include posts in the year in review. Then just a couple of days later my phone buzzed, I had a new Auto awesome, it was Google’s turn to try to sum up my year. So I knew they would do better than Facebook, I use the Google plus images to back up all my photos, so I knew Google had access to a lot of images from the year. And it  did a great job, sure it included some images that I wouldn’t want to share publicly, mostly from school trips and birthday parties, but it felt like it did a good job of capturing the year. Last year I took the time to tweak it and created something that I was proud to share, 2013 The Movie.

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One of Jacob’s favourite breakfasts is a Sausage on an English Muffin. He loves when Melissa makes it for him, but this morning we changed things up. He made it for himself It was fun watching as he realized how simple cooking really is. I wonder what the next thing we’ll tackle together in the kitchen.

We spent the last night of 2014 with Friends, celebrating the year that was and looking forward to the year that will be. I snapped the picture of the day of the tired kids as they waited for the new year to begin.

A few weeks ago I tweeted out a picture of Violet at Hockey practice, and I was tweeted back by Panago Pizza, with a Random Act of Pizza. At the time I had never heard of Panago, and wasn’t sure what a Random Act of Pizza was. It was about a week before it arrived. A free Medium pizza, so tonight I headed up to the closest Panago pizza store to give them a try. They Pizza was delicious, though I did have one problem when I went to pick it up, they have so many delicious looking pizzas I didn’t know what to order.  I will definitely be ordering from them again.

I find it funny how the littlest of gifts can bring so much joy.  Tonight I have a picture of one of my stocking stuffers,  and though I got some great gifts,  this little guy stands out as one of my favourites.

Tonight was a lay around the house kind of day, and so for my Picture of the Day I thought this one of Ruby enjoying her Dino bone on her new bed summed the day up perfectly.

Tonight we continued our Christmas tradition of allowing each kid to open a present and one for them to share.  There gifts are Christmas PJs and the joint gift is a Christmas story book.  Today’s picture of the day is of Jacob reading the story to Violet.

Today we have another picture of Ruby,  relaxing after a long day. I wonder if she knows that her birthday is just 3 days away.