This past weekend marked the 7th anniversary of the end of my marriage. I spent it in a brand new and wonderful way. Labour Day weekend has, for more than a dozen years, always looked a certain way; family cottage weekend, organizing of binders and books, end of summer BBQ, sharpening pencils, … [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...]
Blow Your Nose On Your Goals
In my desk drawer I have cue cards for the last 4 years with my goals and intentions written on them. If it sounds goofy, let me tell you that stuff I write down always comes to fruition - not always in the year I hope- but eventually. Every year around Labour Day we have a goal setting dinner. … [Read more...]
Mess Distress
Kids are back and with them piles of wet, stinky, sandy laundry. I don't know about you but I feel everything needs to be washed that comes home. Toothbrushes get thrown out, hairbrush gets a boiling bath, flip flops that don't owe you a penny get tossed in the trash and the stuffies (yes, 16 … [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...]
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...]
what do you love most about your parents?
~fabulous cupcake workshop at art camp- thanks to visiting guest EMILY DANZIGER This week my art campers have brought me all kinds of laughter and joy. We have had some major chats. The other night I asked them- What do you love about your parents? 1. "That they do not pretend to … [Read more...]
smarty pants
I was a bit of that crazy 'every moment is a teachable moment' mom with a fat Webster's Dictionary on our breakfast table every morning when my kids were little. We would discuss a word a day. I would write it on this little blackboard and then we would talk about what it … [Read more...]
sweet juxtaposition
Labour Day weekend has meant the same thing for me for the last 15 years. It has been a final cottage weekend, a family weekend and then a pack up and a move back to the city. Labour Day Monday we would organize binders and new knapsacks and then spend time with school friends … [Read more...]
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