The month is over, my mad dash to 50,000 words came up short. Very short. I didn’t even manage to write 15,000 words this year, and that’s including my background and world building work in my word count. Still as I sit here and look back at the month I feel like it’s been a …
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Category:Fatherhood
POD: Meeting the Marlies
Today during the kids hockey the Marlies interrupted play to skate from their dressing room to the other end of the ice so they could go practice on the Maple Leafs practice rink. Today’s picture is from when they returned. Jacob’s line was on the ice at the time and it was cool to see …
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POD: Violet’s Advent Candle
Sunday is the first Advent so our little Violet came home from school with this lovely Advent candle.
POD: Butterfly Art
My little girl loves to draw, colour, and paint. In fact she loves most creative things. She produces so much Art that I’m a little ashamed to admit, sometimes I don’t really see it. Today’s Picture of the Day is one of them. I’m not sure when she drew it, In fact I don’t know …
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POD: Hitting 1000
Tonight I continued my November routine of heading to Starbucks with Jacob to do some writing. I haven’t managed to find my novel writing groove, but it’s been fun trying. Tonight I don’t want to write about my struggles, I want to write about Jacobs success. My little man hit 1000 words tonight. His writing …
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POD: Diving in
Today’s picture of the day comes from the pool deck. At the kids swimming class today I captured this picture of Jacob getting ready to dive into the pool.
POD: Hockey Instruction
Early Sunday mornings is usually Hockey Practice for our little family. Today it was Violet’s turn, early in the practice I capture this image of the kids kneeling on the ice listening to the coach. Violet is there on the right in her number 5 jersey, trying to stay on one knee like the rest …
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POD: Hockey Star
Today we have some pictures from Violets Hockey game. It’s amazing to watch my little girl on the ice, she improves so much every game. It wont be long till we are celebrating her first goal.
POD: Violet and her Little Friend
This morning as we headed off to school we were greeted by Violet’s little ‘Snow Bear’. I wanted to take a picture for today’s picture of the day, so she posed with her creation. As much as she insists that it is a snow bear the rest of the household thinks it looks more like …
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POD: The snow is calling
This morning all Violet wanted to do was get back outside into the snow. We told her no snow Angels before school, or instead she got out the shovel and went to work.