I have always loved reading and listening to birth stories. Long before I was pregnant, or even met Michael, I would read birth stories online and in books, listen on podcasts, and soak up the stories of anyone I knew wanting to share. Through all of these very real depictions that I devoured over the …
The other day I was really bored. Elliott was fussy (and bored too, I think!) so Michael suggested I take a little break an do something I would typically enjoy, like sort our children’s books (my fellow teachers get me 🤓). Thanks to the collections we both had slowly built for our classrooms, along with …
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April shower’s bring…August wedding’s! We had a wonderful day celebrating the lovely bride to be, Nicole. It was great having so many friends and family members there to join in the fun, festivities and food. All on the backdrop of a gorgeous sunny, spring day.
This past week, Michael and I took a trip to Calgary to visit with his family over New Year’s. We had a wonderful time catching up with his parents and brother, celebrating a belated Christmas, eating some delicious meals, and perusing through old albums of Michael as a little munchkin. Of course, we couldn’t pass …
(Days 2, 3, 4) It’s reunion time! Or, reunitation time, as I like to call it. This is the true reason that brought us to this trip—Anita studying Medicine in Newcastle Upon-Tyne. Today is the day that we took the train to finally meet up with her in her “hometown” where she’s lived the past …
(Day 1) After an eventful day of travel, that, between the 3 of us, included: delayed flights, missed flights, a deactivated credit card due to fraud, pink eye, a search of three foreign pharmacies for meds, no sleep, lost baggage, and a very sad excuse of airplane banana bread, we arrived! BUT, “My journey overseas …
(That tastes more like a chocolate-berry dessert.) After a week of vacation during which Cow’s Ice Cream made up a fifth food group in my daily diet (hey, it is voted Canada’s best ice cream!), I was happy to get back on track with a run this morning followed by this Power Smoothie fuel. And …
The spiralizer goes far beyond making just pasta-type dishes, but who would have thought it could make such things as pizza! I love the idea of making homemade pizza, right down to the crust. But all that measuring and mixing and kneading and rising is a little too cumbersome for me. This spiralized potato pizza …
A sweet little boy requested a “dig dig” cake for his second birthday, so we couldn’t disappoint. But first, I’ll confess. Although we carefully constructed (pun intended) the exterior presentation of the cake, the innards were derived from a box mix. Let me explain: it was getting late. We were anxious to just decorate. And …
I always shied away from making pancakes. Not only am I not crazy about them to begin with, but when it comes time to flip those little bubbling circles of goo, disaster usually ensues. Until I found out that you could make a pancake with only TWO ingredients. Now that, I had to try. But …
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