Like nomads, but with more stuff

 Since the last post, way back in January ...  We've skied. Literally every weekend since January 8 at least one member of the family sk...

 #21.  In a very generalistic, vague picture of reality, I'll explain that most of my days are spent trying to teach, coach and convince...

 Things felt relatively normal this year - fewer than half the kids wearing masks and a sense that kids weren't being kept at home due t...

 In a conversation about how awful we are as parents for forcing her to go on vacation, Alex gave an example of a small town where there is ...

Alex likes having a particular place in the fridge to put her things for the next day's lunch, so she can just grab the stuff, pack it u...

 One of the birthday coupons the kids got last year was dessert for dinner.  Zoltan used his on something relatively mundane. Alex, on the o...

 This is what it is like to raise children.  The Scene: just after lunch, at Zoltan's room Me:  Zoltan, go downstairs and put away the m...

Saturday we were up and out the door to a well-recommended hiking trail - Boom Lake. It was our longest hike as a family - over 10km. Terry ...

 Zoltan complained about his throat feeling weird on Sunday. On Monday morning he had a bit of a fever, lots of sneezing, and congestion. Ab...

In every adventure we have had since arriving in Calgary, we've left the city and headed west - to the mountains, towards British Columb...

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving, a much preferable holiday to celebrate than Columbus Day, although the coincidence of the dates is food for tho...

We had an adventurous weekend planned, and it ended up being almost idyllic. First up: packing the car. We realized packing for just an over...

The day was absolutely not over yet! Due to our several stops, we managed to get to the hotel just a bit over check-in time, which meant we ...

We discovered when we arrived in Revelstoke two hours before check-in time - a set-in-stone time that would not be amended - that most of w...

 Disclaimer: this is not a complaint. I am thrilled that my children's schools are doing what they can to start the year off slowly and ...

One of our summer plans was to revisit the frozen waterfalls we hiked this winter now that they are flowing. We finally got around to visit...

Terry likes to play around with woodworking projects. As previously mentioned, wooden pallets are routinely available for picking. The thre...

We were lucky enough to get a spot in one of the two community gardens we applied to. Then, after we got that notification Terry found a fe...

The kids and I started our isolations at the same time and we're finishing our third week at home together.  We do get outside most da...

COVID-19 has not made the same deep inroads within Alberta that it has in other places. We have been watching the rest of the world, making...