May the Fourth Be With You

Happy Star Wars/ Luke Skywalker Day! Less festively for the fourth day of May, we have been having a blizzard. There was a winter storm warning AND a wind warning last night, which is somewhat disheartening. Have you read The Long Winter, with all the descriptions of the Ingalls family twisting hay to burn for […]

Yummy Mummy and Yoga

Take a walk over to Yummy Mummy, I have an article over there about yoga. The theme this month is “Mummy Plays” and since I never go out and I can’t stay awake past nine, I thought I would write about yoga! Hope you enjoy! xo

The Sun Came Out!

This was the view from my back door yesterday morning: Spring! It’s mostly melted now, but it was snowing and grey for most of the day until about 6:00 pm, when the sun festively came out. Jake’s mystery illness presented itself as a nasty headcold, and I just could not face bundling him up, running […]

Bitch, we’re coming for you.

Mark has largely recovered from his recent mysterious illness, but, in an incredible twist of misfortune, my husband is now ill. Let us all take a moment of silence on receiving that information. Not only that, but Jake – who was fine when I dropped him at school this morning – was runny nosed and […]

I’m in a bad mood!

Mark, after a weekend of seasonal allergy-related coughing, woke up this morning pale and listless, brushed his teeth, and promptly threw up. Poor guy. By mid-morning he seemed to recover, and as I write this he is playing a loud game with his brother, one of their favourites in which they are brainstorming different and […]

The More Than 100 Mile Diet

The boys have been reminding me, in a very earnest way, to reduce, reuse, and recycle, in keeping with their various school-related Earth Day activities. I think we do a fairly decent job of that in our house: we recycle everything we can, we use steel water bottles and reusable shopping bags, we try to […]

Thanks to my friend Rebecca for the loan of the tiara. It says Princess for the Day which is kind of how I feel today! xo

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