Browsing Tag »Maddy«

Downtown farmers market is a hit →  May 15, 2010

An all-round gorgeous day greeted market goers in downtown Edmonton today. No one in my family was disappointed with the outing – except perhaps LA who had to stay at home and monitor the landscaping work that got underway today in the front yard. We started at the north end and walked toward Jasper Ave., [...]

On teaching one’s teenager to drive →  May 6, 2010

As a confident and competent driver for 30 years, I am never as comfortable in the passenger’s seat as I am in the driver’s. So at least part of the anxiety that floods my body when my 17 year old daughter Maddy takes the wheel has to do with sitting on the right (i.e., wrong) [...]

Maddy celebrates 17! →  March 18, 2010

We awoke early this morning to celebrate the beginning of Maddy’s 17th birthday. Waffles and chicken bacon was accompanied by opening of cards that had arrived in the mail over the past several days. Ben and Ella each gave Maddy their homemade cards. Ben’s featured a lightsabre battle between him and Maddy and Ella’s card [...]

→  November 15, 2009

Here’s to the loving connection that these two sisters can and do share.