Carlyle turns 11

She’s growing up – becoming a real tweenager as she leaves that “little girl” behind and surges ahead towards the teen years. Like I have said before, we wouldn’t hold back our lovely grandchildren from growing up but we’ll miss the “little ones”. What can we say about Carlyle? She is lovely, Thoughtful, kind, caring,…

Winter finally arrives

It was a snowy day here in Edmonton – something that should not be a surprise but we’ve had such mild temperatures and so little moisture (rain or snow) that many people were talking today about how great it is to have snow. Alberta is suffering from a significant drought. We need moisture! All that…

Thinking of Helen

I might entitle this from one grandmother to another. Here is Wendy – now Grandma to six, making short breads using HER grandmother’s cookie cutters. We got talking about how old these must be. We think they must be at least 70 years old. Wendy has memories of her “Grandma” breaking open the baking things…