My daughter loves her yoga classes. I grew up in a family of yogis. I even enjoyed going to mom and baby yoga. When the yoga was for me though, I have given it several tries and it just wasn’t an experience I enjoyed. My mind would feel like it was on hyperspeed and my…
Category: Health & Safety
National Nutrition Month: Healthy Eating a Menu by Chef Jeremy Sewall
Sometimes I think I was born in the wrong era. I know the reality of it is that I’m glad I live in the modern world. (Who am I kidding? I get annoyed if my computer is slow for a few minutes.) In terms of cooking and shopping I imagine bartering with neighbours, shopping the…
NYC Ballet Workout Day 3: Cold toes edition
Today my body is a bit sore. I feel some of the work from abs to glutes. At the end of my workout (35 minutes) my toes are cold and my cheeks are warm. My routine this morning: Warm Up 1 : Where my toes are cold and I stand in one patch of sun….
NYC Ballet Workout Day 2: Snow Day Edition
I made it work even though I had company. After a day of running around in Natick looking at furniture for the playroom, playing at the Apple Store and the Lego store and the play space we made it home and carved out about 30 mins. to do the workout. I had company of the…
NYC Ballet Workout: Day 1
Today is my official Day 1 of working towards getting back in the ballet studio. I am eons away from the person I was dancing up to 40 hours a week and then still going out dancing with friends in the evening. So I need to start small. Very, very small. I’m starting with 30…
Recipe to Soothe a Sore Throat: Lemon Bourbon Elixir
When I was little I used to have a froat. Now when I’m home sick with a burning inside my neck I feel like a little kid with a froat and would gladly wake up to my mom by my side to take care of me. But now, I’m home alone (Isabelle is off climbing…
Stepping Past Fear: Walk a mile in those shoes
I don’t like to fail. I don’t think anyone does. The differences among us is that some of us handle failure better than others. Taking it further, I think we all handle some failures fairly well and others not at all. So what does this have to do with today? As you may know, I’ve…
Hiding from the inevitable.
Hiding from the inevitable. I’ve discovered something. Unfortunately it doesn’t predict the weather, nor does it cure anything. It’s not a new app nor is it something that makes your life seemingly easier. It’s not beautiful. It’s not tasty. It’s just a little annoying. I don’t have writer’s block. I have more ideas than time…
Social Media Mom Brain
I’d like to blame my haziness up there on what I have lovingly named “the plague” that has hit 3/4 of our family of late (and in the same breath be grateful that we were spared worse), but I can’t. It’s not the never ending cold that drags us right down to the ground every…
Move Over Poultry Here Comes Pasta
My husband came home with a plea for no more poultry. We don’t eat a lot of red meat because it is expensive and not our favourite food. We usually cook quite a bit of vegetarian and fish dishes, but I haven’t made it to the fish monger or the produce section of the grocery…
Green Thanksgiving: Packing up the Leftovers
In our family, we’ve slowly crossed sandwich and snack ziploc bags off of our shopping list and replaced them with re-usable, and easily washable Happy Sacks. My daughter’s lunch rarely has anything disposable in it. Her cutlery is Bambu. All our leftovers are kept in glass or melamine. Why should the holidays be any different? Apparently, it…
Leah's Life: Pearls and Oysters 