Category Archives: Life

Friday Specials

I got exciting news this week. I’ll be speaking at Blogpodium, Canada’s Conference for Design and Lifestyle Bloggers, in September. Jordana and I will be co-presenting ‘You CAN have both – balancing a day job & a successful blog’. Eeep! I am so honoured and freaked out at the same time – did you see …

Friday Specials

Things are busy around here. I think we have too much on our plates right now. Doesn’t it always feel that way towards the end of the school year? In addition to spring soccer, swim and gymnastic classes (why are they overlapping this month?), both kids take dance. This past week has been very busy …

Friday Specials

This week was a doozy – we had a wonderful long weekend and once I put the kids to bed on Monday night I was flattened by the stomach flu or food poisoning. Not sure which of the two it was, but it was bad and I don’t wish it on anyone. Food has been …

Friday Specials

I’m really looking forward to this long weekend. I hope the weather warms up a bit so we get to spend more time outside. We still have our regular scheduled Saturday swim and dance classes and courtesy of dear House of Brinson I’ll be taking a couple of Alt for Everyone classes. We are also …

Friday Specials

This week went by in a flash – with soccer practice that started for both kids, yard work, first mowing of the lawn, playing in the sprinkler and evening walks in our neighborhood, we’ve been enjoying the nice weather. What are your plans this weekend? Some specials I want to share with you this week: …

Friday Specials

It’s May and the sun came out! What a great week! Do you have any grand plans for the weekend? I think we might putter around the yard a bit more and maybe I’ll be brave and get that foundation paint going before the plants grow too much? Or maybe I’ll just plunk myself on …

Friday Specials

This seemed like a whirlwind week – for no particular reason. I just felt like I was constantly racing against the clock. Today my handsome and crazy supportive husband celebrates his birthday! Happy Birthday! We’ll be having a small family celebration tonight, and tomorrow I booked the babysitter so we can go out on a …

Friday Specials

I was getting to a point where I thought we’d skip spring this year. Winter was not kind to us and hung around way too long. But finally this week, temperatures are rising and flowers are blooming – they are blooming outside, not just in my pot on the dining room table. Nicer weather calls …

Friday Specials

This was the first week I didn’t wear socks! While I had cold toes at times, the fact that socks are banished to my dresser makes me ridiculously happy.* The other thing that made me happy was receiving our little family illustration in the mail. Mandy Cave made this portrait for us and she is …

Friday Specials

This was a short work week with us having Monday off. The highlight was seeing all the baby animals at the farm. Yes, we have a modern working farm in the middle of the city and it’s by far my favourite museum in town. I can’t get enough of baby goats, sheep, chicks, pigs and …