May 6, 2013 | Canada, Emily, Madeline, Revelstoke, Simon, spring 2013
When the fish are biting and it’s 27 degrees out in May, it’s time for us all to go fishing. There seems to be a chocolately theme for the day. First, hot chocolates around the morning campfire. Nutella on toast for breakfast, with fierce felines. The...
Mar 30, 2013 | Canada, Emily, spring 2013
This year Emily requested a sleepover birthday party. We took the plunge and said OK. It was also Easter weekend so the theme was pretty easy. All set to go… We were blessed with unusually warm weather this spring and brought the trampoline out a month early. I...
Mar 22, 2013 | Canada, Emily, Revelstoke, winter 2012-2013
Every Sunday morning the girls have been going to ski school in the Revy Rippers program. In the afternoons they ski with Dad. Emily has very quickly progressed to skiing most of the mountain, including steep ‘black diamond’ runs. These are the...
Mar 15, 2013 | Canada, Emily, Revelstoke, winter 2012-2013
It was Emily’s turn as the Student of the Week. Emily will regularly do at least 1.5 to 2 times the required spelling sentences. Her teacher told a story about how Emily often goes one step further than expected. That day the class learned about Polar Bears....
Feb 2, 2013 | Canada, Emily, Revelstoke, Simon, winter 2012-2013
When you live with a musician, you never know when and where the next creative outburst is going to happen. Sometimes it happens while making dinner. Luckily, Emily seems to have bypassed her father and is taking care of things herself.
Jan 28, 2013 | Canada, Emily, Madeline, Revelstoke, winter 2012-2013
To celebrate National Literacy Day, the kids at Begbie View School were asked to dress up as their favourite book character. Emily loves to read and chose to be one of the black cats from the book series called “Catwings’. Madeline is a leopard, from a...
