It is raining today and a predicted streak of above-zero temperatures this week might actually put an end to the snow-covered world we’ve been living in for two months now. I’ve been tired of the cold lately, but I still think I’ll miss the snow.
I have a lot of work to do – in my [...]

And there goes the illness gong again – M. has what’s most likely pneumonia and I’m hovering on the edge of I don’t quite know what. We really are looking forward to spring now. We’re not tired of the snow – it’s still there, huge, improbable mounds of it – but of the cold and [...]

We’re on the other side of two. Incredible. M. enjoyed his birthday party so much – playing with his cousin, blowing out the candles on his cake (twice!) and opening gifts like he’d been practising it (well… Christmas?). We enjoyed it too – and most of all we enjoyed his actual birthday which we spent [...]