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Category: Parenthood
Shut it! or Having a Voice & Knowing When Not to Use It
Parenting… aw heck… life is complicated. We breeze through some parts and struggle, hugging the ground for dear life in other parts. Everything is rarely what it seems. And yet, we all find some kind of sick comfort in criticizing one another… some more than others. I am not writing this about any one particular…
Mother of Invention: From Toast to Tide
We still say, ‘This is the best thing since sliced bread!’ Mostly when I say that or hear someone say it we are actually never referring to something life changing. Our lives are full of life-changing, perhaps not in a fabulous, dramatic way, but nonetheless life changing products and inventions. The obvious life changers are…
Stereotypes: Gender, Parenting, and the Status Quo
I’m not sure if the word stereotype by definition is negative, but if I’m honest (and I always try to be) then I truly believe we all depend on stereotypes all the time every day to navigate our world. We make assumptions every time we look at someone. We need a starting point. It becomes…
Tired Parent, Goes Hungry
On our way out the door to camp, a rare rainy morning required rain boots. I opened the shoe cabinet to find not only my Hunter rain booties but wedged between all the shoes a bag of tortilla chips. Until you have children you don’t know what tired really feels like or how silly things…
Fall Fashion: My favourite stores to clothe the kids
As a kid, I remember always loving the end of summer and beginning of fall. Maybe that makes me a bit of a nerd but in fact, I think it had very little to do with school. ‘Back to school’ meant new clothes, even if was just opening up the box of hand me downs…
5 Ways To Upgrade Leftovers: Season to grownup taste
Leftovers used to be something I dreaded as a child because my brilliant mother would whip it up into what she called cottleston pie. I am certain it was in fact delicious, but as a child who liked flavours and textures totally separate, there was no way I ‘d even let myself enjoy any bite…
Dog Days of Summer Camp
Whether you’re a full time working parent (okay, we’re all full time working parents, but what I mean is if you have another job outside of parenting) or you just have spent way too many blissful, blisteringly hot, days with your children, summer camp in August is sometimes essential. It is especially those last days…
Movie Night: Monster University
After a very hot week with one child home, one at tennis camp and husband busy with a crazy week at work, we planned a first ever family movie night at the cinema. I have come to terms that movies are expensive these days and now that we are four tickets instead of two it…
Family Movie Rating System: Real Life Guide
So now that we get to watch movies as a family. I will do my best to blog what we see and I suppose a rating system would be helpful. Source: theatre, drive in, independent movie house, Hulu Plus, Netflix, IMAX Age: Current age if the children when we watch the movie. On average our…
Leah's Life: Pearls and Oysters 