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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 […]

Recently LEGO announced that it was coming out with a new line of “girl-friendly” LEGO with softer colours (aka pink) and more feminine characters to play with (the LEGO Friends). Of course, pink LEGO really isn’t anything new – my mom bought some for my daughter a year ago. But this new world of LEGO […]

Gasp! Babywearing blasphemy! It’s a strange phenomenon – mamas come to my store and look longingly at the woven wraps. They haven’t committed to buying one yet, but they tell me that they want to love them. And I know exactly what they mean – I remember saying those words myself. Several times. There […]

OK, time for the requisite blog post about resolutions. You’ll notice that I’m a day late – clearly I have not chosen to work on my chronic tardiness this year. No, I made just one New Year’s Resolution and it was easy to keep: I vowed that on January 1 I would listen again to […]