I am absolutely, without a doubt, a Summer Girl. It is my favourite season, and I feel like last year I was cheated out of it, a bit, with the move. Everything was so busy and so stressful and so emotional – I sobbed with hopelessness in the parking lot of the library when they […]
Archives for 2024
Nicole’s Favourite Things: The One Year Anniversary Edition
July 18, 2024 by 48 Comments
Exactly one year ago today, I loaded up the car and drove eight hours solo, with only Rex and a queue of podcasts for company, to move from Calgary to Kelowna. The entries from my one-line-a-day journal from this time last year are kind of nuts; frantic descriptions of packing, cleaning, and purging, interspersed with […]
Feel The Heat
July 15, 2024 by 56 Comments
It’s Getting Hot In Herrre We are having day after day of hot, sunny weather, and I am here for it; this is what I have always dreamed of experiencing in the summer. I love it. When it comes to outdoor activity, it is a little toasty, and so morning routines around here have been […]
Poison
July 8, 2024 by 52 Comments
My husband is always incredibly supportive and encouraging of anything I decide to do, and so last August when I told him that I wasn’t up to teaching yoga in our new city – the thought of starting over was overwhelming and discouraging, and it felt like time for a pivot – he was in […]
What Have I Become?
July 1, 2024 by 68 Comments
One thing I didn’t realize would happen, with a retired husband and children no longer in the public school system, is that long weekends don’t really register for me anymore. Every weekend is a long weekend, therefore no weekend is a long weekend. This is not to say that the Canada Day weekend was really […]
Nicole’s Favourite Things: The Landscaped Edition
June 27, 2024 by 59 Comments
I realized just as I wrote that title that I have a sugaring appointment this afternoon, but lest you get the wrong idea, what I am going to talk about today is NOT that kind of landscaping. It’s full on summer and I am enjoying the gorgeous weather, although today is “coolish.” Of course, in […]
Joy (pump it up pump it up now) Pain (keep it going keep it going now)
June 24, 2024 by 59 Comments
Recently my husband and I were at a birthday party for a friend; a video of that party was created and shared with me. I watched it, my eyes widening, and then I watched it again. I called my husband over to watch it with me. Do I really look like that? I asked, astonished. […]
