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I love spring! It’s such a wonderful time of year. Yesterday the weather was so beautiful and I finally had the chance to bring my girls to the park. They’ve already been with my husband this year, but it was my first trip and I loved it. The fresh air, the warm sun – I […]

Remember in a previous post when I said that I can’t learn French? It took me years to accept that fact. I took French classes all through high school, right up until Grade 13. Then I went to the University of Ottawa, which is a fully bilingual university and took French classes there. When I came […]

River utterly broke me today. She made me yell. She made me cry. She made me go online and put a desperate plea out to my friends on Facebook. And then yell some more. How is it that this four year old can break me so easily? Her insolence is unbelievable. When I tell her to […]

Wednesday was Harbour’s first birthday. I can’t believe how fast this first year passed – I feel like she just came into our lives a few months ago. When River turned one, I felt like a decade had passed, but with Harbour, time has flown by. Our lives changed dramatically when River was born and each milestone […]

Few things make me more crazy than missing out on my morning cup of tea. I don’t think I’m asking for much – just a warm cup of black tea with a splash of milk (essential!) and a bit of sugar to start my day off well. So when I noticed that we were down […]

Do you ever try to guess what your kids will be when the grow up? I imagine Harbour will be really into dance. She has a great sense of balance that allowed her to walk confidently at 10 months old and, just the other day, proudly sit at the top of a step ladder that I […]