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A fresh coat of paint
Sometimes setting two children loose with a can of paint and some brushes while you’re cooking dinner is the right thing to do. Sometimes.
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Rainy Days
It’s been raining here. Lots. Day after day, the sky is overcast. The grey clouds hang low. Other days they’re high up in the sky. Every now and then, the clouds part and a beam of glorious...
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Roll With It
Some days don’t go according to plan. Today I was outside working on the Catbus, starting the sizeable job of replacing the poptop canvas. As I was up there working away at undoing the sand-encrusted...
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Summer Adventures
I’ve been busy living life these past few weeks, with not a whole lot of time for writing, reflection and blogging. We’ve had some pretty amazing adventures though. Our van broke down twice on a...
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The Dog Days
We are living the dog days of summer right now. Flying kites at the beach, sunburned shoulders, ice cream, blueberries every day, feet that are black on the bottom from going barefoot all day long....
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Nobody remembers learning to walk, but everybody remembers learning how to ride a bike. I didn’t learn to ride a bike without training wheels until I was about 10 years old. Between the years of 6 or 7...
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Just one of those weeks
Ever have one of those weeks that are so packed and so out of the ordinary that there are a few tears shed by everyone come Saturday morning? Oh yeah. Me too. This week Claire woke up feeling nauseous...
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Should your child manage their own Halloween candy stash?
Oh, Halloween. Of all the holidays we celebrate, this one is such a mixed bag. It is a day to honor the dead, after all. It can’t be all sparkles and unicorns (unless you’re 5, in which case it just...
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Merry Christmas, not Crazy Christmas (and a Blurb photobook offer!)
A couple of weeks ago I was in the kitchen, chatting with my husband about all the things that were coming up on the calendar. “I want to get all the shopping done before December,” I said, “because...
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And now for something completely different…
Hello. I know I said I was going to take a break over the holidays, but you know what? Sometimes I need to take a break from taking a break. I have some big news. A couple of weeks ago we happened...
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Our neighbourhood
We’ve been getting out and about in our neighbourhood more lately. Going on the same short walks over and over, visiting the same animals and the same stream. It might sound boring, but it actually...
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A little taste
Every now and then I get a little taste of what is to come. A week of sunshine in March reminds me that summer is coming. We shed our layers of wool and remember what it is like to be too hot. A...
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Four
Claire turned 4 this weekend. She’s a big little now. Big enough to sound out some words and print letters on my mother’s day card. Big enough to wield a knife safely (with some help). Big enough to...
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TGIM (Thank goodness it’s Monday)
I really love Mondays. Fridays are great and all, but by the time I get to Friday I’m usually pretty tired. “Worn to a raveling,” one might say. We’ve had a full week of projects and activities and...
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July
We’ve been wearing our bathing suits every day hanging them over the porch railing at night There’s been water up the nose at swimming lessons sand in the toes at the beach glorious belly flops rosy...
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New Halloween Traditions
One of the things I love about moving somewhere new is that every time a holiday comes by, there is an opportunity to change up our traditions and try something new. Every community has its own quirks,...
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Merry Christmas!
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, full of magic and happiness and adventure.
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Right now I am…
Listening to podcasts while I cook, clean or knit. Why it took me so long to get on board with podcasts I have no idea, but cleaning isn’t quite so boring anymore, and knitting while listening to a...
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Oh, Foot.
A week ago I was doing this instead of writing: I didn’t go into the city for an official diagnosis, but my best guess is that it is a stress fracture in one of the metatarsal bones of my foot....
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