December 2010 Blog Posts (9)

Thursday December 23, 2010

 

Well, I guess we pretty much know by now, as we did at 7.30am, that today is the day before Christmas Eve. It's like living with two town criers. You hear the really important things over and over.

 

Connor called tonight. he's been away the last two nights with friends at their century old stone cottage in the Kingston kind of area. Connor's friend is called Christopher Kuitenbrauer. They've been boarding at a near-by mountain called…

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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

I have rudely coerced us an invitation to the lovely Lamacraft mansion because I have been dying to see their home. These are the people on the two acres in mid-town Toronto in the gorgeous parkland like area called Wychwood Park. It's an old artist settlement - 100 years? The…

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Wednesday December 22, 2010

 

Lovely Caitlin and Richard Costley-White hosted a party for us tonight. They had a boy, Nathaniel in with Lucas last year and this year their Jeremy is in with Lucas. Both boys are darling but this Jeremy is in direct competition with Oscar Varkey for being the cutest dot ever! I do like 'em with a dose of imp and these two monkeys are imp all over!

 

Back to the party. It was at the incredibly gorgeous Costley-White Rosedale home.…

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Saturday December 18, 2010

Elliot, Connor, Francesca, Oscar Varkey and Cesy's good friend Laura (Vermont Laura)

Owen Varkey is in The Christmas Story at The Holy Trinity Church downtown. It is Toronto's second oldest church and the production is in its 73rd year so it's all terribly…

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Friday December 17, 2010

 

So it had to happen. It was always on the cards a year after we said hello to this Waldorf School we knew we were going to have to say good-bye and it was today and it was extremely difficult.Well, not for Lucas but it was for the rest of us.

 

They made such a fuss over us in the final assembly. They're just the loveliest people. Some of my closest friends wrote an article about us for the school newsletter which was just so heartfelt…

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Wednesday 15 December 2010

 

 

My beautiful ladies from this year's crafting mornings came over last night. We were there to teach those needle felting admirers who hadn't learned the skill yet. The sweet and patient talented Marion Chow taught…

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December 4, 2010

The Winter Fair is the main fund-raiser of our school here. But more importantly it is a fantastic community spirit builder. It's been crazy busy but we finally did it. What a stunning day.

Each class room is transformed into a wondrous new world.

Snowdrop Market…

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December 1, 2010



Our exciting Scandinavian adventure has come to an end. But we managed to squeeze in a heap of stuff on our last day.

Kenneth and Suzy's house in Asker…

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(Sweet girls)



Francesca has been most unwell so we haven't seen as much of Oslo as we had intended. But the ER department is excellent! Like the rest of Oslo/Norway, it is efficient, respectful, pragmatic and very good looking in a well scrubbed kind of way. Our doctor was blonde and called Sven. Of course he was. I do love a good stereotype. Francesca has an ear and throat infection and it looks like swine flu. It's… Continue