Simplicity. Something we all strive for in life, but how does one achieve it? One can downsize, simplify… all well and good, but what does that really do? Won’t you just get right back in to accumulating and complicating things? I want life to be like it used to be, before everything got all complicated […]
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Today is a very special day. Three years ago today at 3:10am, in a dimly lit hospital room full of busy nurses, I had the most excruciatingly painful experience of my life. This was the day I had my first child, a son (who weighed almost 9lbs. I may add). It was the most crazy,
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She has a cold. I’m so very tired. I baked a pie, made ravioli from scratch, baked a four layer cake, made fish tacos (tortillas from scratch) and hosted a little party all in three days. I’m tired. Oh…and I got a business license. Notice that logo up there…yup, I’m all legal now. Need photographic
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I took a plunge yesterday. A huge one. One I’ve talked about, yet feared, just about my whole adult life. I applied for a business license, registered a business name and bought a domain name. My heart is pounding just typing that! I’m heading into the professional photographers domain and I don’t take the step lightly.
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Life in a rural setting can get kind of weird sometimes. Like having to wrangle all your chickens one morning after they escape during the night, having spent the whole time staring into their yard trying to figure out how to get back in. Chickens are unbelievably brilliant you know. All sarcasm aside, I truly appreciate their
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It’s warming up (for the moment) here on sunny (rainy) Vancouver Island. We had a chance to head out for a walk in the neighbourhood for a minute the other day. Boots were a must, but it was a fairly nice day for a walk. I realized when we were walking, me holding camera, Adrian
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I think my daughter has a drinking problem. She may also have her mother’s serious aversion to bread products….The future looks bleak my friends. Funny, I think I have a similar picture of my son at the same age: Hmmm, says more about the parents I think, than the child. My name is Elizabeth Nyland
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It’s a new year, and I realize many people will be fielding their resolutions for the next few months (or weeks) and many of those will have to do with eating healthier. Well, then this recipe is not for you. This recipe is purely of the gooey, creamy, sticky, savoury but sweet variety and has
There’s something in the air right now, and I don’t mean tiny wonderful snowflakes… Sadly, as much as people who have never been to this part of Canada seem to think, we do not get a lot of snow. In fact, the temperatures here barely ever dip below the freezing point. When they do it
Today is one week until Christmas Eve! Can you believe it? It happened so fast this year, what with this being the first year our son will be conscious enough to understand about Santa and being generous and all that jazz. We’ve had so much fun setting up his gifts and talking about baking and leaving cookies out for
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