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Making A Wish

October 28, 2013 by Nancy 1 Comment

Sometimes making a wish is a very good thing. Sometimes believing  something will help you when you need that help, is worth embracing. Sometimes making a wish and sending it off will bring about the change you await. You start, most importantly, with a group who mean so much to you. And a cocktail … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Adulthood, Friendship, Life Tagged With: believing, friends, friendship, holidays, making a wish, mom blog, mommy blog, motherhood, parenting, separation and divorce, single mom blog

All The Beauty That Lies Beneath

October 25, 2013 by Nancy 1 Comment

This is my new favourite thing to do. First you get on a boat in the tropics (lake fish are the ugly sisters to tropical fish; no colour, no jazz, and they all look alike). Go out far into the ocean until you get to a reef. Put on your snorkel, mask and fins.  And courage. And get close to some … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Adulthood, Friendship, Life Tagged With: family travel, family trip, favourite things, friends, friendship, having fun in the water, humour, mom blog, separation and divorce, single mom blog, Snorkeling, UrbanMoms

Facing My Fear at 50, Again

October 22, 2013 by Nancy 14 Comments

All week I watched the parasail float over the water above me as I ran or walked the beach. I could do that, I say to myself, from the safety of the peaceful beach. But do I want to? "Nance, you should do that. I know you are afraid." I am, as many of you know, very afraid of heights. I have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Relationships, Self, Separation & Divorce Tagged With: doing the hard thing, fabulous 50, facing my fear, family travel, fear of heights, friendship, love, mom blog, mommy blog, motherhood, overcoming fears, separation and divorce, single mom blog

It’s Not So Cold on the West Coast

October 1, 2013 by Emily Leave a Comment

If you've seen How to Be a Vancouverite, or if you are one, or if you know any of us, you know how uniquely weird we can be. We effing love kale, and it's a joke how much that isn't a joke. If you've ever been here or moved here or tried to make friends outside of work or school, maybe you know how … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Friendship, Life Tagged With: cancer, Community, friends, friendship, fuck cancer, healing, health, mom blogger, mom blogs, Vancouver

That’s What She Said…

October 1, 2013 by Alice Leave a Comment

... but it's not necessarily the truth. Oddrey and the New Kid, by Dave Whamond OwlKids, ISBN: 978 1 92697 390 6 I didn't love the first Oddrey book all that much - but I'm quite enjoying her this time around! Oddrey is used to being the interesting, fun kid in every bunch, and quite … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: friendship, issues, picture book

A Weekend In Pictures

September 30, 2013 by Nancy 2 Comments

  I hope everyone got outside this weekend to enjoy all the beauty. xo n … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Adulthood, Life, Seasons Tagged With: family travel, food, friends, friendship, indian summer, mom blog, motherhood, separation and divorce, single mom blog

Building a Bully

September 23, 2013 by Alice 1 Comment

What makes a bully? A set of instructions is interspersed with writings of the victim in this unusual book on a hot topic. The Bully Book, by Eric Kahn Gale Harper, ISBN: 978 0 062 12513 2 Designed as a found notebook with two sets of pages intermingled, The Bully Book tells the story of a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: bullying, fiction, friendship, issues, middle grades, teen list

The Emotions Of Breasts

September 10, 2013 by Nancy 2 Comments

I have been thinking about that first bra shop this morning as my thoughts are with my best friend from my first bra days when breasts were new to me. She is about to lose one of hers to cancer. As much as daughters are like their moms, mine were horrified too by the first bra shop. I was not … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Relationships, Self Tagged With: body image, breast cancer, breast health, friendship, women's health

Nervous About School? A Contest Might help!

August 29, 2013 by Alice 28 Comments

And maybe your kids are, too? ;) Noni Is Nervous, by Heather Hartt-Sussman Tundra Books, ISBN: 978 1 770 49323 0 Every year, there appear a few more books about starting school, because let's face it, this is a big event and looms large in the minds of children and parents alike. Teachers … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: family, friendship, picture books, school

Smoke and Suspense

August 27, 2013 by Alice Leave a Comment

When a sheltered city girl ends up in a forest fire camp where things are more than a little hinky, she's going to have a very eye-opening summer... Smokescreen, by Nancy Hartry Tundra Books, ISBN: 978 1 77049 405 3 Kerry's summer job in cottage development up north turns out totally … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: fire, friendship, summer, suspense, teen lit

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