Podcast 003. New Year Resolutions 2017
In today’s podcast, I share my New Year resolutions for 2017. Less fear, more joy, more structure, more peace. Shouldn’t be too hard, should it?
Family Life
Blog posts about parenting and family life
2016: Here’s looking at you kid.
I used to write a retrospective of each passing year until I had twins and just about everything disappeared in a fiery crash. This year I decided to pick it up again. I’m sharing it with you because it’s fun and fluffy and not too scary. What did you do in 2016 that you’d never … [Read more…]
Podcast 002. Self-care in the midst of chaos
there is no amount of stuff, credit, spa treatments and girls nights out that can buy you happiness in your marriage and family.
Self-care in the midst of chaos: is it even possible?
** This week’s podcast on self-care and was inspired by this blog post, originally published on Vie de Cirque in 2015. ** As a mother of many, I am often asked about self-care and finding time for oneself in the midst of chaos. Where can a mother find peace when the things that bring her … [Read more…]
Life as a river
I was going to start this blog post with some poetic musing about life being a winding road and how we don’t always end up where we thought we would. But even winding roads lead somewhere: a ditch, a dead-end, another road, a pretty little cabin in the woods. Life is a series of decisions … [Read more…]
2016: The Soundtrack
One of my favourite non-family-related holiday traditions is the browsing of “Best albums of the year” articles, blog posts and podcasts. Back in the days, my holiday music-buying lived and died according to what former broadcaster and pariah Gian Gomeshi offered as his top 20 albums of any given year. Since Gomeshi’s fall from grace, … [Read more…]
On being fearless
Imagine that you and your family are in a boat. You can work together to get somewhere or you can work against each other and sink. Whatever you decide, you’re in this together.
Peppers
In the pantry, a jar sits on a shelve, lonely and unused. Its bright red colour livens the mess of spices and aromatics standing at attention in a practical array. Bird’s Eye chili peppers, dried to a dusty crisp, artifacts of a summer’s past. We had planned a large garden, tilled long and narrow mounds … [Read more…]
Are we killing you yet?
This post was originally published on Vie de Cirque in March 2014 About a month ago, our family was the subject of a full-page feature in our local newspaper. This is not the first time that my little gang and I appear on the pages of a newspaper: last year, I took part in a … [Read more…]
Unsolicited Advice: Achieving potty training success – Don’t be anal about it
True confession: I never waited for my kids to be “ready”. I potty train at 2. That’s it. None of my children (until the twins) cared about spending some time in a soiled or wet diaper. Some of them may still be in diapers had I been waiting for signs of readiness. There is a … [Read more…]