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Thank you for visiting my blog! If you enjoy it, you might also enjoy Mom vs the Wasps, which is a fun post about facing my fears for the sake of my children. Well, mostly it’s about me running away from wasps. Do ropes courses teach our kids valuable life lessons? I sure hope not, […]

Do you sometimes feel like the family chauffeur? Yeah, me too. But I’ve found a way to get rid of that feeling… The year-end dance recital was last Saturday, so like moms everywhere, my week was a blur of rehearsals, sequins, makeup, and hairspray. And that was just me. That’s right, I danced. On stage, in front […]

This post first appeared on the Huffington Post Canada: To Those Judging The Mom Of The 4-Year-Old Boy At The Cincinnati Zoo You will lose track of your kids at some point. Maybe for a moment, maybe for an hour. It does not matter how carefully you watch them. And I think that it’s the […]

This post contains affiliate links. Thank you for visiting Unhurried Home: Life in the Slow Lane! I hope this post helps make your next game night a little more fun. 🙂 If you enjoy this post, be sure to check out my other top blog posts from 2016. About a month ago, my eight-year-old complained that […]

There was a fantastic storm last Thursday night: tons of rain, some lightning, and really loud thunder. Our roof was just replaced the weekend before, so instead of spending the stormy evening worried about shingles flying away and water pouring in, I worked on my blog. That’s right – I was so confident in our invincibility that I didn’t […]

My house is covered in lentils. There was an evening this past week where my toddler, Forest, howled with anger every time I put him down on the ground. My eight-year-old was fighting with my five-year-old and the noise was driving me crazy. I just wanted some peace so that I could focus on getting […]