Weekends at our house are filled with activities. We go to the Farmer’s Market, and the butcher shop, the grocery store and the liquor store (I know I’m not the only one!). We eat quick bites at random places, I nurse our littlest one, we play with our older son and we spend time as […]
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I haven’t talked much about our trip to the Okanagan, so I thought I would share a short recap of our adventures. Really I just want to saturate this post in glorious pictures of my family. So there. The trip started with a short ferry ride across the Straight of Georgia or if you like,
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First things first, a giveaway! CSN Stores has been nice enough to offer me a chance to host a giveaway worth $80 of credit towards anything in any of their 200 stores and I’m very excited to be giving it away to you, my loyal readers! I don’t have a say in what you buy
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This little lady reminds me that children are just so sweet and innocent when they are brand new. They gurgle and coo and even when they are crying they can take a break and smile up at you for a second, and then back to crying. They rely solely on you for absolutely everything, even
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I’ve been thinking. Yes, sometimes I do get a moment of mental clarity to actually sort our my thoughts. Usually is occurs around the time I am closing my eyes to go to sleep, mind still racing, small chubby cheek pressed up against my breast, a tangle of arms and legs below the blanket and
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I want to write something witty today. Really I want to amaze you with my awesome ability to rear to children, wirte and develop recipes, take gorgeous photos and still have time to write amazingly thoughtful prose.
Too bad I have lost half my brain cells this week. Hubby went away. For 5 days. Oh sure, my parents are here to help me, but that doesn’t get me anywhere at night. This little lady you see above has a very low respect for bedtime. Especially mine.
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So there’s these grape vines at our house. A lot of them…of varying species. We know one of them is juicy concord, but the rest remain a mystery. They are green and some are tasty, tangy, and tart and then there’s some that are completely flavourless. When we moved in last year they were obviously
Homemade pasta. Not exactly one of the quick dinners I was imagining I would be making three weeks after the birth of my second child. But you know what? It’s not nearly as hard as you think it is. Have you, like me, always wanted to make your own pasta to see what all the fuss is
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It’s the simple things in life that make it worthwhile. Taking your children out to a farmer’s fields and wading through rows upon rows of succulent strawberries while you pray to some foodie god with a good sense of humour, that your child eats under a pound of the sweet red jewels ranks right up
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So quick, so tasty, so very flavourful. Things I am in dire need of while grappling with our new life. It can be hectic with one toddler, but throw an often unsettled infant into the mix and you’ve got a whole other ball game. Dinners once spent at the dining room table are now hectically