We’re turning off our street when Al asks where we’re going. Leen tells him we’re going to pick up a dental chair (which will be her back-up chair) and take it to her clinic. Al cheers.
Al: Yay! We’re going to Mommy’s teeth clinic!
Me: You know, I think he’s going to be a dentist when [...]
Categories: Life
Tagged: Alisdair, conversations, parenthood
Duncan MacLeod’s first job was delivering groceries on his bicycle, when he was twelve years old. When he was fifteen his uncle, Claude Powell, got him a job as a bricklayer at the steel plant. He disliked bricklaying work, though, and quit in 1945. He went to work as a milkman, but in 1947, less [...]
Categories: Heritage
Tagged: Canada, Cape Breton, conversations, Duncan MacLeod, family, genealogy, history, Nova Scotia
The other day, in the lift.
Me: You know, Aaron really looks a lot like you when you were a little girl. From the pictures I’ve seen of you, anyway.
Leen: You think?
Al: Hey! Aaron’s not a girl. He’s a boy.
Leen: Yes, that’s right. What about me?
Al: You’re a girl.
Leen: And what about Daddy?
Al: Daddy’s a boy.
Me: [...]
Categories: Life
Tagged: Alisdair, conversations, family, parenthood
Me: So, buddy…soon you’re going to be a big brother. Are you excited?
Al: Yes.
Me: But listen…when your little brother comes, sometimes Mummy’s going to be really busy. You know, she has to give him milk, and all that stuff. So you’ll be spending a lot of time with Daddy, okay?
Al: No, Daddy.
Me: No? But you [...]
Categories: Life
Tagged: Alisdair, conversations, parenthood
I finally got in touch with William Alexander MacVay Jr, my only living MacVay relative outside my immediate family (well, unless we count his sister, who goes by her married name). Bill, as he’s called, lives in Florida and is a widower of about 90 years old. We had a great chat about his side [...]
Categories: Life
Tagged: conversations, family, MacVay
I’m sure most little kids have awesome imaginations, so it might sound overproud-daddyish of me (yeah I just coined that term) to say my son has an awesome imagination. He does, though. He can play out epic scenes with his toys, or with invisible friends (and especially invisible enemies). I like to think he’ll be [...]
Categories: Life
Tagged: Alisdair, conversations, parenthood
After watching Monsters Vs. Aliens, Al and I were playing with some of his toys.
Me (holding the head of a robot dinosaur): Hey guys!
Al (holding a transformer in one hand and a generic Voltron-like robot in the other): Hey!
Me: What’s your name?
Al: My name Robot.
Me: OK. And how about you? What’s your name?
Al: [...]
Categories: Life
Tagged: Alisdair, conversations, parenthood