Tag Archive ' family'

  it is time to give it back the little blue keyboard with the colourful keys that my little man called starbursts he had named each key after a member of our family when he was really little this one is baba, this one is mama, this one is… my girls had played with it…

we are sitting on the porch reading we are fighting off mosquitoes dive bombing in on us it’s 87 degrees and the air is thick with pollen and we are surely in the South I am reading to my growing babes with a Southern accent yes, this Armenian Canadian girl living in the South is…

On this rainy Monday afternoon, I cannot help but think of a song that mom would sing when she was a little girl… Arev, Arev… Sunshine… I remember hearing her sing this song one day as we were washing dishes in the kitchen. She began to sing, as she always does, and this particular melody…

I am remembering being in elementary school, I think it was Grade 2, and coming home perplexed by an assignment we had to do. My teacher had asked us to make a family tree and to go as far back in our family’s history as we could go… my friends got all excited about this…

I love Easter. I love the beauty and truth of the celebration… one of my favourite memories as a child is waking up early Sunday morning and going to the sunrise service at the beach… sometimes we wouldn’t get to the beach early enough to see the actual sunrise (!) but it was always amazing…