What's on your holiday wish list this year? Usually I keep it pretty simple and just ask for cold, hard cash, but this year I find myself pining for a few specific items.1. After a year of working out, most of my Costco-brand yoga pants are too loose and saggy and are often falling off while I'm at … [Read more...]
House Party!
Tupperware. Norwex. Mary Kay. Pampered Chef. Epicure. Partylite. Arbonne. Avon. These are all products that carry out business through a little machine known as the Home Party: you get invited to one, you go and drink some bad coffee, you listen to a spiel, you feel guilted into buying … [Read more...]
Dr. Feelgood(byn)
Packing lunches is not my favourite. It can be boring and mind-wracking at the same time, trying to assemble a spread of healthy, yet tasty, choices for you kid to eat. But I have found something that makes lunch-packing just a little more fun: the Goodbyn lunchbox. It is perfect! I don't … [Read more...]
Plan B
I feel bad for loving it as much as I do: working outside the home, away from my children. I am so happy to come home at the end of the day, scoop them up in my arms and reconnect, but the time away is so good for me. But then I worry whether it's good for them. I don't want to be selfish; I … [Read more...]
The End Is (Pio)neer
It seems there are a plethora of skills that generations before ours had to master, out of necessity, that we have been able to, in this modern age, live without: things like sewing, knitting, canning, farming, hunting and giving birth in beet fields.They are all things that people can now pick up … [Read more...]
Falling
(Photo taken from super-old blog post I wrote five years ago.)Fall is my favourite season and here's why:1. The colours. Scarlet and mahogany leaves swirling in the wind.2. The foods. Roasted root vegetables, stick-to-your-ribs soups, and fresh-backed biscuits.3. The specialty drinks. Pumpkin Spice … [Read more...]
Sugar Rush!
I have mounds of Halloween candy stashed in the cupboards from our kids' trick-or-treating efforts tonight.We let them choose one treat at the evening's end (Avelyn fished out the one full-sized Coffee Crisp bar and wolfed it down before I could reason with her) and then put the rest of the booty … [Read more...]
Good Cop, Dad Cop
My husband and I couldn't have more different parenting techniques. He is firm, steady and level-headed while I am hot-and-cold, emotionally charged and prone to exasperation.I am the one who kisses the boo-boos, sings the lullabies, and initiates the dance parties in the living room. He takes them … [Read more...]
O Nanny, Where Art Thou?
Wanted: Single female with portly build and jovial disposition to live in our basement. Must be good with kids, have excellent housekeeping skills and cooking abilities, a strong work ethic and the desire to live in Canada rent-free in return for watching three young children while their mother … [Read more...]
High Ten
Next year will be our 10th anniversary.We got married when we were 19 (scandalous!) and in the decade that's followed, we have jam-packed a lifetime's worth of events: going to University, taking over the family apple orchard, moving multiple times, a handful of huge renovation projects, three … [Read more...]
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