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 [...]
Did anyone else catch the article on the front page of the Saanich News today about how strollers and parents are selfishly taking up space on BC Transit buses thereby causing disabled people to have to wait for the next bus?
I was shocked and dismayed by the article as I think it needlessly pitted two [...]
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 [...]
There has been something on my mind lately and I have not blogged about it because I know it is a subject that tends to be rather polarized and it can spark debate. I hate to see huge arguments erupt but I am all for discussion and different points of view so, I thought I [...]
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 [...]
We took the boys swimming the other day and I have to say it was not a fun time. Things were just off from the start. The baby was fussy and my 3YO was jumping all over me and I could feel myself getting more and more annoyed. We weren’t even there for an hour [...]
It is pouring rain and I should be lounging around with my husband in a luxury hotel room in Seattle but instead I am sitting at my kitchen table in my pajamas and in desperate need of a shower. The best laid plans…
If you read my post last week you know that my biggest worry [...]