6th October, 2007 - Posted by karen - No Comments
For about a week and a half Evelyn started waking up at night, some nights after only a few hours of sleep. As you can imagine, I wasn’t too excited about this development. She did go through a growth spurt and I think that was part of it, but I finally figured out that she » Read More
14th September, 2007 - Posted by karen - No Comments
My mother always made this amazing fruitcake for as long as I can remember. I don’t know where she got it from (likely a Better Homes and Gardens cookbook) but it is really delicious. Most people think fruitcake is dry and flavourless, and frankly most fruitcake is. This recipe, however, avoids the problem by adding » Read More
18th May, 2007 - Posted by karen - 1 Comment
Yesterday marked 1 month since Evie arrived. This month went very fast. Evie is much more alert during the day now and still doesn’t like to be set down alone. I am trying to give her at least one time “alone” in the bassinet each day so she will be a bit used to it » Read More
9th April, 2007 - Posted by karen - 2 Comments
Well it’s Easter weekend. It has been a very busy week. Dan, Dan’s mom and I did a very thorough cleaning and re-organization of the kitchen, including moving all the cleaning supplies to an upper closet and making space for the recycling under in the cupboard. Dan’s mom also undertook (voluntarily!) the heroic task of » Read More
31st March, 2007 - Posted by karen - No Comments
Well this wraps up my first week off on maternity leave. It was interesting and rather productive. In lieu of working, here is what I did: Worked on a document about qPCR, responded to emails re same Fought with computer to access network drives at work Several grocery shopping trips Unsuccessful search for wooden baby brush with natural bristles Made » Read More
19th March, 2007 - Posted by karen - 4 Comments
Dan and I went out for lunch today to a Veitnamese restaurant in CDN. I checked a few reviews and specifically went for something that offered more than “Pho” (Vietnamese rice vermiceli soup). Now don’t get me wrong, Pho is great, but it seems like 9 out of 10 Vietnamese restaurants in Montreal specialize in » Read More
5th February, 2007 - Posted by karen - 3 Comments
It has been yet another one of those weeks. The apartment across the hall was recently vacated and our landlord needed to do some major fix-ups before being able to rent it out, which resulted in the floors being varnished last weekend. We knew the smell would be strong, but it turned out to be » Read More
7th January, 2007 - Posted by karen - 1 Comment
Ever since we bought the espresso machine last summer there has been “talk” of getting a good grinder. It’s quite hard to get the coffee places here to give you a good grind for espresso (and as we have both learned it’s really important) so I caved and Dan picked up a grinder this week. » Read More
22nd December, 2006 - Posted by karen - No Comments
Ahhh … I just got home from my last day of work until Jan 2nd. Thank goodness for a break! Too bad for Dan he’s still working on his essay, because I don’t have any work to do tonight! Plans for the weekend will be something like this: sleep in and relax tomorrow, maybe clean » Read More
24th September, 2006 - Posted by karen - 6 Comments
I’m rather tardy at getting a post out. Actually it’s almost been a month. A very busy, event packed month, mind you! Yeah so life is a little insane right now … hopefully when things calm down I can say more. I am trying to catch up on all those blog posts I missed. Well » Read More