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Me: How’s the dishwasher repair going? Husband: Really great if you are someone who likes to handwash dishes and also who doesn’t care about gouges in the cabinets. Me: Alright then, I’ll leave you to it 😬😬😬

Oh no. I have a flight on Sunday morning and I have already entered “waiting mode”. Welp, I guess tomorrow is a write-off.

Got a pair of “Extreme” merino wool socks for each of my kids. The men’s and women’s versions should be identical other than size and colour options right? Nope, the women’s sock has a much thinner inside lining. Why????? Infuriating.

I’m obsessed with the Hamilton bus hijacker. It is so absurdly funny that the passengers didn’t all immediately exit once they realized he was a not a bus driver. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Who wants to join my support group for Mennonite Tesla owners? There are dozens of us! Dozens!* Mennos who turned against principles of frugality and simplicity to be early adopters of clean energy in the name of climate justice, only to be stuck with most embarrassing car in the church parking lot.

It’s so embarrassing driving a car through downtown in rush hour. It’s almost comical how terrible it is. I hope my coworkers really appreciated the homemade cinnamon buns that necessitated the use of this inefficient giant metal/plastic box to ensure safe delivery.

Thank you Jakob and family for sharing your experience. This is absolutely horrific and should not be tolerated in our city. This is not an “oopsie”, it is active violence by design. Accountability is needed. Change is needed.

This teeny tiny skiff of snow is making me way too excited for ski season, which is still likely at least a month away. I’m done with November weather.

If you’re wondering whether we still need these changes, a driver hit Rob’s ghost bike THIS MORNING

Parenting hack: build a life that does not involve driving your children to school.

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If this is what caring about sports feels like, no thank you.

We accidentally bought the World Series streaming package in French, which is a huge bonus for the teen who needs to work on his French listening comprehension for school. French homework and baseball game all in one.

I am mostly on board with boycotting travel to the USA, until I remember that I have only 3 more summers to do family road trips with my oldest, and some of his favourite places for family vacations are across the border. Not sure what do with that. Just makes me sad.

“Oh wow, wasn’t traffic just horrendous this morning?” -everyone at work “Oh really? Didn’t notice” -me 💅 🚴‍♀️

Oh noooo. It’s Saturday afternoon and everyone has plans outside of the house except me and the cat. Whatever will we do?

I work part time, and often feel pressure to be very productive on my days off to justify the income sacrifice. But today I rearranged my bookshelf (twice), baked cookies, watched a stupid reality show, and read. I think it’s ok to just exist sometimes.

I went to a house showing today and caught myself gazing at the titles on the bookshelves multiple times. I am not able to convince my brain that my thoughts on the homeowners’ book collection are extremely irrelevant to the decision about buying a house.

Do you live in a #granolamennonite household, or do you see a container like this in your fridge and fully expect to see feta cheese inside? @granolamennonite.bsky.social

I want to go get my mail because I haven’t checked in a few days, but I don’t want the neighbours to think I am ignorant of current events. This is so far the only disadvantage of a community mail box vs. home delivery that I have encountered. #CanadaPost

If I’m being completely honest, I don’t think I knew that Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon were two different people until this week.

My husband mentioned that I seem to be purchasing books at a faster rate than I am reading them. Not sure what kind of point he was trying to make. 🤷🏼‍♀️ 💅

My kid is a new high schooler and first time transit-user. This week he experienced very late buses and buses that passed him by on the way home because they were too full. I am a regular transit user and have never experienced such over-crowding on the bus as I have this week.

Me: Wow, look! The birthplace of Lucy Maud Montgomery! My entire family in unison: Who’s that? Me: 😳 🤦🏼‍♀️ I should have left you all at home.

Furthest in each direction I've been in Canada: N: Bear Glacier Provincial Park, BC E: Quebec City, QC W: Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC S: Point Pelee National Park, ON This took some googling of latitudes and longitudes to figure out! Can’t wait to blow past my eastward record in a couple of weeks.

My child is starting high school, and for the first time ever we have to go school supply shopping. Paying a supply fee to the school for grades K-8 is SUCH a good system.

Well, my children were 100% convinced I was as good as dead on my bike ride home today thanks to the emergency alert on their phones, so that was fun. I don’t think Winnipeg was under the tornado warning at all, but I could be wrong. #mbsorm

Despite the heat, I forged ahead with a two pie day. Italian zucchini and saskatoon rhubarb.

Work-from-home day with children on summer break was going great until I complimented them on how well they’ve been getting along all day.

Me: Ahh, finally a beautiful cool morning with decent air quality, let’s open all the windows. Neighbour: Ahh, perfect morning to burn all my cardboard boxes and piles of green leaves 🤦🏼‍♀️

I’m sorry family, supper will be quite late today due to unforeseen circumstances*. *It took me 30 minutes to decide on which audiobook to listen to while cooking.

Flights to the east coast are booked! I now have about 1.5 months to introduce my child to all things Anne of Green Gables.

My teen was hired by the neighbour for some yard work. I watched out the window with my mouth agape as he dutifully and without complaint completed tasks that would have been impossible had they been requested by his own parents one yard over.

Strands #483 “Hue are my sunshine” 🟡🟠🟢🔵 🟣🔴🏳️‍🌈

What a time to be alive and to live in Winnipeg! Next week I am definitely going to take the brand new transit routes to Portage and Main just to walk across it and I am irrationally excited about it 🤓

When every single program/sport/camp/school grade is organized by birth year and not age, it can be hard having a kid born within a couple of days from the cut-off.

People have said to me there was no point in banning toy guns because “boys will make guns out of anything”. I didn’t listen and it has been a non-issue.

I was without cell service or wifi most of the weekend and I think I’d like to return to the woods indefinitely please and thanks.

The Spirit Sands in Spruce Woods Provincial Park #Manitoba will always hold a special place in my heart. I’ve been coming here since I was born; with my parents, on school field trips, youth retreats, camping with friends, etc. 1/2

One thing to know about me is that I will ALWAYS underestimate the amount of time it will take to wash and dry my hair.

This is fantastic news!

Ideas for keeping tween/teen kids occupied in summer? Not sure how to navigate this stage where they are too old for (most) day camps but too young to have summer jobs.

I find it very cute that my family in Alberta had no idea that going to Lakes Louise and Moraine in a private vehicle is no longer a thing. I’m the one explaining to them how to see the sights in their own province 😅

Tomorrow is a big day. Going for a new personal best. Not sure I can handle the pressure. #Connections

I’m just going to say it. It’s not easy at all to run 5 km, even though it’s the baby race at running events. Anything more just seems unreasonable! 😅 To any other 5K runners out there, you are awesome! 👏 👏 👏 #manitobamarathon

If you see this, quote this post with a movie from the year you were born (I have to admit I have not read the book nor watched the movie).

Normally I plan summer vacation over half a year in advance, but when Plan A (Black Hills, SD) became not an option, I’ve been floundering. Starting to lean toward Atlantic Canada (never been!). Can anyone share experiences/recommendations? Day hikes and bike rides? Best beaches?

Everything I know about art I learned from the board game “Masterpiece”.

Let’s do this more of this. Love it!