Analyzing the joys and funny bits of parenting and the domestic life
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 [...]
Disney’s Mars Needs Moms starts out with 10 minutes of relaxing get-to-know-the-characters-time and then WHAM! you are off on a non-stop adrenaline ride of running from the bad guys for the rest of the movie. I was invited to see an early showing of Mars Needs Moms last weekend. Although, I was originally going to [...]
My sister and her husband stayed with us over Christmas and our time together was made up of a little bit of this and a little bit of that, all the while stuffing our faces with chocolate and cookies. Christmas 2010 was officially a massive nosh-fest, and while my kids don’t appear to have hit [...]
We flew to Calgary this past weekend for my younger sister’s wedding. It was beautiful. She was beautiful. The groom was beautiful. The ceremony was beautiful – much nicer than my own wedding ceremony where the pastor told a story of a woman who went insane and spit all over her husband. Miss Em, who [...]
