This was our 8th year as VIPs (Very Important Philanthropists, raising over $1000 per adult), 8th ride with the kids, and 3rd time doing the 50km route. Each kid started with the 25km route when they were 5yrs old. As with previous years, it was cool and wet when we started in the morning. By […]
After each major audiology visit at Sick Kids, Felix participates as a volunteer in brain scan studies of cochlear implanted kids.
Yesterday morning, while getting ready for school, Nolan threw out: “Wouldn’t it be funny if the van didn’t start.” Neil and I definitely did not agree with that given that we spent $6,937.21 on maintenance for the van last year! Yesterday evening, Neil took Lara to her eye appointment at 6:40. At 7:20PM, I receive […]
This was a public event at the Oshawa Airport so the whole family went. Only females were allowed to register for the free flights. Unfortunately, it was too windy for the small planes so the flights were rescheduled.
These are one of our favourite snacks. Lara decided she wanted to make them as the store bought ones were too sweet. I found an easy-for-a-ten-year-old-to-follow recipe here and then just followed her around and get in the way took pictures. Since then, she’s made them several times. Each time, they are inhaled in about […]
At dinner last night, someone asked me to make more ice cream. That quickly snowballed into requests flying around the table … had to write them all down.
We were busy, answered “yup yup” to some questions from the kids. Result was an experiment involving fire. Making a candle