Sorry folks, need to share this. I can't help falling in love ...with my daughter. How did she go from this to this? [youtube id="MDkc7SEIKtw"] … [Read more...]
Formula for Happiness
Apologies for using this space as my personal dumping ground lately, but please just listen...K? I'm the kind of person that is very affected by my surroundings. If things are off kilter in my home my whole life seems like it's out of control. That's why undergoing home renovations, probably … [Read more...]
The Years Are Short.
The days are long but the years are short. These are the very wise words passed along to me years ago by an experienced mom in the midst of my post-partum sleepless nights and endless crying jags (mine and baby's). These words were food for thought when my babies were small as I knew one day they … [Read more...]
Life Lessons For My Daughter All The Way Over There
This morning in the parking lot at my daughter's high school I ran into an acquaintance. She asked what grades my daughters were in. She said, "You have one in second grade?" I kissed her feet and offered her the name of a good optometrist. I wish. Second year University. She told me she wished … [Read more...]
FYI (if you’re a teenage boy)
Dear boys, I have some information that might interest you. Last night, as we sometimes do, our family sat around the dining-room table and looked through your social media photos. We have teenage daughters, and so naturally there are quite a few pictures of you studly gentlemen to wade … [Read more...]
Life Lessons – Let’s Talk Potatoes
We seem to attract people wherever we go who want to tell us their life story and everything they know. I wouldn't have it any other way. We were doing the University grocery shop better known as a feeble attempt to get good fresh food in there for the first week. Then they will decide to go out … [Read more...]
I Hope You Dance
My patience has been thin, these past few weeks. Too much on the go, too many things to remember, too many fights to break up between three snarling girls all day. I have been yelling too much, sighing too much, wanting to escape too much and that is not how I want to be remembered. I hope they … [Read more...]
Lessons From Littles
Just to be clear, I don't tell you about art camp because I think you are fascinated with my day job. I tell you about it because I want to re tell the power of taking this thing that looks like this and remind myself and you of how it can be transformative the way every life task and … [Read more...]
Lessons From My Week With A Boy
I have daughters. I have never raised a boy. I half feared it and half envied it. I recently spent a week with one of my favourite 9 year old artists from the city. This is the first time a boy has come to art camp. Here is what I learned- 1. It is actually possible to never sit … [Read more...]
How Do You Embarrass Your Children?
In the great microcosm of life I call Art Camp, the midgets asked me "What do you do that embarrasses your children, Nancy?" Where to start. Where to start. Then I remembered when they were little one of their favourite books was The Paper Bag Princess. If you remember, she was the ultimate … [Read more...]
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