Ever dreamed of owning a summer place by the lake? Where your kids can splash and play and you can escape the city and unwind? Great Blue Resorts is doing just that and making it affordable too. No really, I mean it. They’ve developed cottage resorts in the best possible locations in all of Southern … [Read more...]
Tips For Easy Summer Entertaining & A Must Try Sweet Potato Salad Recipe
Just breathe. I keep telling myself. After a few weeks of entertaining, I'm already exhausted and summer has just begun. So, here I am writing at 3 am as I had a late night Lebanese coffee and suddenly I'm woken up with the thought of this weekend's get-together for hubby's birthday. With 14 people … [Read more...]
Summer Camp & Cottage Essentials!
It's going to be here before you know it! Soon we'll be labelling their underwear and t-shirts as we'll be shipping the kids off to their weeks of camping fun. Aside from the obvious packing essentials here are a few things that you may want to include on your summer camp packing list! And if you're … [Read more...]
Colin and Justin chats about their rustic escape to cottage country!
You just gotta love these guys! They are sooooo much fun and together they are non-stop entertainment. I've already been inspired by them but now the design duo (and city slickers) are taking their big ideas to the great white north! Finding their own cottage was an adventure in itself and it was … [Read more...]
my favourite moment of the week-teenagers baking
I love when I am surrounded by teenagers and they ask- as though you would ever say 'no'- Do you mind if we bake a 3 berry pie from scratch? … [Read more...]
Farewell, Summer!
Yesterday I sent my girls off to their respective schools, and I headed off to mine - each of us for our own first day. And that, more than September 21, defines the end of summer for me.So I took some time to reflect and look back on the summer we had this year in 2012 - and it was a great one!I … [Read more...]
Annual Adventure
Last Wednesday Sean and I loaded up our van, threw in the kids and headed up towards Ottawa. This was the second year in a row that we made the trek to visit Sean's family at their cottage/home on Mississippi Lake. We had the best time and the only thing to put a damper on the trip was another … [Read more...]
How to be the best guest EVER at the cottage? …psst bring food!
So, you're heading up to cottage country for the weekend. Awesome! You're entertaining guests OR even better, you ARE the guest! And you've offered to bring up a meal or two, like a good guest that you are, right? What to bring? Instead of the standard sausages, pasta salad, and hamburger … [Read more...]
FotoFriday – A simple reminder
Keyless entry fobs should always be hung up and not kept in your pocket all night.We think Sean hit the auto opener while he was drunk stayed up late at the cottage. We found shredded McDonalds bags all over the van and raccoon prints all over my dash. Cam is convinced that the van now … [Read more...]
Screen Free
We spent this past weekend at Sean's uncle's cottage in the Ottawa area. It was the first time we took the kids for an "away" trip. Cuyler does VERY poorly sleeping anywhere except his own bed, but we thought that we would give it a go. We'd be with family and knew they would be … [Read more...]