The Stories of our Lives

Orly has now grown an inch of soft thin and pale hair, which stands straight up on the top of her head. She’s my sweet little chick!

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E - Xavier, what are you doing there?
X (gets out from behind the bookcase).
E - Get out of there, little man.
X (without a word, slips back into the small space).
E - And of course, in another language, that means “Go back to this place immediately”.

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(Watching the new 90210 spin-off. One of the teen characters is taking out the trash to the sidewalk.)
E - Check it, the other girl will have stayed there in the street because she doesn’t want to go back home, because her mom’s a drunk.
(The character discovers the other girl asleep in her car in front of his house.)
Friend Phil - (Laugh) I think we’ve watched too many teen series.

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I’ve gotten an email fwd on the subject of being a mom. There’s a line in it I’ve liked:
Before being a mom…
I hadn’t known the feeling of having my heart on the outside of my chest.

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The main thing about babies is their lack of spoken communication. What can sometimes be quite maddening when there is no apparent source for incessant crying, can also become frighteningly cute when you realize how much raw emotion appears through their sweet round eyes… and a tiny smile.

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Desserts must have been invented as bargaining method to make toddlers eat.

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E - I ordered a copy of the Canadian Food Guide. It’s free on the government site.
F - If we separate from Canada, we’ll have the Quebec Food Guide: poutine, pizza, guedille…

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Sesame Street on TV. Xavier is in his mute zombie mode, eyes glued to the screen. I’m following the sketch about the word “unanimous” with Elmo, LL Cool J, the garbage puppet and the little girl one.
Suddenly, Xavier surfaces from his televisual torpor and exclaims: “Dirty, dirty, dirty!” while pointing at the garbage puppet.
Apparently, we weren’t focusing on the same thing.

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While watching “The Besieged Fortress”, France-Quebec production depicting a termites/ants war:
[Note: It’s a sort of documentary disguised as a story. It’s really well done: images are superb, action is well paced so we don’t get bored, and we learn a lot - it helps that they chose nomad ants.]

E - These termites sure aren’t leftists.
F - More like socialists extremists.

I initially thought these nomad carnivorous ants were sort of gross meanies: they eat everything that enters their travel “column”, without leaving crumbs. Then, I realized humans were at least as voracious: they hunt everything. Worst, their food production generates more debris; while the ants can be considered cleaners, in a way, the humans pollute and threaten the ecosystem.
I was a bit more grossed out by the humans than by the carnivorous ants, for a couple seconds, at this moment.
Then, the bugs attacked a snake on screen. Eerch.

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