School in September

UPDATE: I called the daycare today (March 1) and Elina’s first on the waiting list for St.  John’s school, there are presently two *pending* invitations, if either of them decline, we get the spot.  If they both take the spot, we then have to see what happens at her daycare.  I spoke with a few [...]

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Happy Birthday Barbara & Ruby

Two of my great friends are celebrating a birthday this weekend (one on Feb 9 and one on Feb 21). Both milestone birthdays and we’ll be celebrating like good old times at a restaurant downtown with my girls!
Here are the photos:

Left to Right – Ruby, Barbara, Michelle, Dina & Mary
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Night Time Fears

Elina’s been doing some strange stuff at night time, out of the blue, telling stories of boogie people and scary lions in her room at night.  The *professional* cite: a change in normal life (we just got back from a very exciting vacation), change in sleeping habits (she’s been not consistently taking her afternoon nap) [...]

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Us?

I found a cool site that makes *dolls* of you, they didn’t have any brown skin, so for me, use your imagination!!

What do you think? Does it look like the Anker family?

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Getting Dressed Woes!

I didn’t think that a simple thing such as getting dressed would turn into some dramatic, drop yourself into the chair, OMG you want me to wear that dilemma each morning! It’s only just begun but I didn’t expect this until she was at least nearing her teens!
Vacation – pretty pink skirt – I [...]

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Riviera Maya

The Anker and Malik family (friends since Elina and Connor were 3 months old – Connor was born one day before Elina) spent an enjoyable and relaxing trip south to a resort just near Tulum in Mexico. I think we were all so busy relaxing and playing that we did not take many photos, but [...]

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Home, Safe, Brown!

Well..various shades of brown…
Wonderful week! Kids loved the kids club daily, besides it was sooooo hot that it was a good thing they stayed in doors! We enjoyed the books, music, and tropical drinks!!
We were told that from a family who go on vacation for two weeks that we were the most relaxed [...]

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Mexico Here We Come

So, we’re going on vacation. We tell co-workers and friends and their next sentence is “are you sure that’s safe”. Herman & I traveled one month after September 11 (great deal to St. Kitts), and felt completely safe (we did however get abandoned down there when Canada 3000 went kersplush!
We know that a [...]

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Tables Have Turned

I was just curious to find out where the warmest city is in Canada today, and at this mid afternoon time – the warmest was Iqaluit, Nunavut – a balmy -7C. The city is on the latitude: 63.45N.
It is bitter cold outside. Hard to breath, especially since I am still recuperating from a [...]

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Crafty Bits

It just isn’t going to happen! I’ve removed the blog and link to it! No excuses, I’ll keep this site with items about our family and our goings-on, etc.
I’m just a girl, standing in front of a pile of stamps and ink, trying to help other people like stamps and ink too

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