"You live your life in minutes and hours.
You move along beside the people you love, and in the midst of all the moments,
in the middle of all the movement,
you don't stop to commit things to memory.
You never imagine there is anything that is going to be of historical importance, or that someone is going to come along and quiz you about things."
-Stuart McLean Revenge of the Vinyl Cafe
You move along beside the people you love, and in the midst of all the moments,
in the middle of all the movement,
you don't stop to commit things to memory.
You never imagine there is anything that is going to be of historical importance, or that someone is going to come along and quiz you about things."
-Stuart McLean Revenge of the Vinyl Cafe
Every year we take the kids to cut down a tree - except if someone is sick, then we all pile into the van, drive to Home Depot and grab the first wrapped up tree we see while the sick kid sits in the van and the other complain about not being able to cut one down and how can we "PLEASE just go and cut it. . . .this is boring and you can't even see what they look like."
Some years it is rain boot weather because the temperatures have soared about zero, and some years it is -45 C and we have the tree cut and are back in the van in under 10 mintues.
This year was perfect. It was sunny (!) and the the thermometer was hovering somewhere just below zero. There was a wind, but the kids don't notice that as they run and hide and yell every 30 seconds that "We've FOUND it!!! THIS ONE, THIS ONE is the PERFECT one!" and then giggle like hyenas because it very obviously isn't the perfect one!
Some years it is rain boot weather because the temperatures have soared about zero, and some years it is -45 C and we have the tree cut and are back in the van in under 10 mintues.
This year was perfect. It was sunny (!) and the the thermometer was hovering somewhere just below zero. There was a wind, but the kids don't notice that as they run and hide and yell every 30 seconds that "We've FOUND it!!! THIS ONE, THIS ONE is the PERFECT one!" and then giggle like hyenas because it very obviously isn't the perfect one!
"All these little moments, he thought, who knows which ones are going to count and which ones will be forgotten."
-Stuart McLean Revenge of the Vinyl Cafe
-Stuart McLean Revenge of the Vinyl Cafe