Analyzing the joys and funny bits of parenting and the domestic life
On Saturday morning, I woke my kids up extra early so we could travel downtown to visit one of our favourite places in Vancouver, the Vancouver Aquarium. We had been invited to take a look at their Luminescence exhibit, and it was so much fun. Luminescence celebrates the different ways that aquatic animals create and [...]
Watching The Muppet Show was a huge deal when I was a kid. If it was playing, we were watching. However, it’s been a long time since the Muppets were on my television set, and twelve years since they were last at the movie theatre, so I wasn’t sure if the Muppets were still relevant [...]
Take an almost three year old and an almost five year old and toss them into a room with three (almost identical) toy houses to play with. Give them 15 seconds to judge which house they deem worthy of playing with, and they will almost assuredly choose the same house. The bigger child will try [...]
Sleeping was a bit of an issue on our mini vacation. But sleep did happen – even if it often happened in the middle of the day and not at night, it still happened. The vacation was simple: a few nights away in a tiny rental cottage at a beach closer to our house than [...]
Travel. Travel with kids. Those few words make a great deal of difference. With travel, I envision walks along the beach, browsing for that special treasure in the shops, dining by candlelight while overlooking a moonlit beach, sleeping in late under crisp Egyptian cotton sheets. Travel with kids, is cavorting in the sand, arguing over [...]
