This past Sunday I had the opportunity to be on the other side of the lens… the lens of Jon-Mark. We have been planning our yearly family photo session since April. We had originally decided on a date 3 weeks earlier but E’s ezcema flare up led us to postpone. Call [...]
Summer is here even if the weather is not cooperating. Come tomorrow afternoon school will be over and we’ll have a whole summer to get reacquainted with our kidlets. If you have a lot of time at home with them you might need some ideas. Below are a few sites I have come across that [...]
Mother’s Day….what do you really want…that’s what my kids keep asking…when I reply with good manners, helpful gestures and no fighting they roll their eyes and say yes but moooooooooommmmmmm what do you want? Honestly I love to get gifts but I would be just as happy without. What I love are the little things [...]
Mother’s day is nearly a week away. My daughter was born on Mother’s Day last year. My daughter’s first birthday is nearly a week away- how did that happen? I have been going through this exact thought process at least 4 times a day for the past couple days which has led me to realize that I have mixed feelings about this upcoming [...]
Everly and I belong to a playgroup that evolved from our prenatal class at Mothering Touch. All of the families were clients of midwives and because of that I think we were a pretty like minded group of gals. All Spring, Summer and Winter this group of women and their babies have been meeting up [...]
I wasn’t sure how well I was going to “do” motherhood after not having a mother for too much of my life. When I was 8 years old, my mom began to loose her battle with multiple addictions. She eventually left our family for the streets, binge drinking and illicit drug use. She has been [...]
Christmas is a time for traditions with every household having a slightly different variation of how they celebrate the season. Kids thrive on tradition. I think it is like an unwritten piece of every family’s code of arms. Civilization and societies have changed a lot since the beginning of time but despite the distractions of [...]
School is out and with the kids at home this week there will be times you might want to take a few minutes for yourself. This is one little science experiment that is a favourite in our house and sure to entertain for the better part of an hour. Who would have thought that cornstarch and water [...]