Category Archives: Life

Friday Specials

Today I’m particularly excited that it’s Friday. We have tickets* to the A Taste of Kingston & The County experience at the Ottawa Wine & Food Festival – a 4 course tasting menu with Chef Clark Day. It’s going to be a unique culinary tour, perfectly paired with premium wines from Prince Edward County. Not only …

Friday Specials

This week has been somewhat relaxed – just going through our routine. The temperature dropped this week and we got our first frost. The kids were happy to rummage through the Halloween decorating box and we started adding a couple of creepy things here and there. We’ll be decorating for Halloween this weekend and maybe …

Friday Specials

This has been a great, whirlwind week. We started with Canadian Thanksgiving Monday, which kicked off the week with a lot of food. I continued with a little extra food on my birthday and I have a couple of shoots planned this coming weekend – which means extra things to eat around the house. But …

Pumpkinferno

Even though Pumpkinferno is only in its second year, the event is definitely considered a huge success for Upper Canada Village. With 35,000 visitors in their first year, they were looking for ways to improve the festival, making the family-friendly event an even better way to get into the Halloween spirit. This was the first …

Friday Specials

I’ve been under the weather the last couple of days, so I hope to have a relaxed weekend with great weather. It’s been very sunny and quite warm and we’re enjoying a lot of time spent outdoors. I hope it’s nice where you are and that you get a bit of time to relax and …

Friday Specials

Happy Friday! After coming back from Toronto and presenting at Blogpodium (it was great!) we went apple picking and had such a great time. If you get a chance you should go as well, it’s a really nice fall activity. Now I’m looking for apple recipes so we can use the 20lbs of apples we …

Friday Specials

Last weekend we went camping and overall we had a great time, despite me being cold and not being able to sleep. I’m not a big fan of camping, but the kids have so much fun that I succumb once or twice a year and head on out to the woods. I actually enjoy all …

Friday Specials

Wow – another week whizzed by. We’ve had a whirlwind of weather here – hot and humid and freezing cold – it’s just a little confusing. Did you notice the little changes on the blog this week? I decided on a small facelift, just in time for Blogpodium next week – I’m starting to get …

Friday Specials

I took this photo with my phone after dinner this week. The kids found this dried up peace lily in our only potted plant that has lived with us for 10 years now. At first it looked like a caterpillar. Everyone was fascinated with this little piece of dried plant – I thought it looked …