Superbowl Sunday! I’ve already made my kale chips for the big day, which, I should note, will only be eaten by me. My husband has the Superbowl set to record so that he can fast forward through the commercials. You see, we don’t get the exciting and fun commercials up here; we merely get local […]
Nicole’s Favourite Things: The Makeup Edition
January 30, 2014 by
I was planning a post about my newfound love for BB creams, and then my friend Lynn wrote a post about how she’s not wearing makeup anymore. Let me tell you, I’m a makeup junkie: I love makeup, I wear it every day even if I’m home all by myself or just going to the […]
Truly Upsetting Recipes from the Lutheran Ladies’ Family Favourites, and Puffy Pirate Shirts
January 13, 2014 by
On Friday I was visiting my parents and going through old albums, feeling nostalgic for years gone by. Not all of the albums had dates written in them, but as it turns out I can predict with 95% accuracy the year based on my hairstyle and clothing in the photos. Long, straight hair with hairbands and […]
Happy New Year! Happy New Look!
January 2, 2014 by
Mark was peeling an orange and accidentally dropped a piece of peel on the floor; I managed to rescue it mere milliseconds before the dog pounced. I took that opportunity to tiresomely remind the children to be careful because food dropped on the floor could make Barkley sick. I finished with “The only thing worse […]
Smell my feet!
October 31, 2013 by
I do not know how this happened, but in addition to the box of 90 miniature Hershey’s bars that I purchased a few weeks ago, I somehow decided that this was a good idea: Given that we average between five and ten trick-or-treaters a year, and, on a related note, since my kids are two of the very […]
I Dreamed A Dream
October 25, 2013 by
“Mom, do you have a dream?” Mark asked over breakfast the other day. I was only on my first cup of coffee so I wondered if he wanted to know what I dreamed about last night. I didn’t want to tell him I had a nightmare about a mouse crawling on the ceiling and then […]
For Little House Fans (everyone else please wait until next post)
September 23, 2013 by
This weekend I spent some time reading articles about the Little House on the Prairie books, and how Rose Wilder Lane, one of the founders of what is known as modern Libertarianism and also Laura Ingalls Wilder’s daughter, heavily edited the original manuscripts in order to further her political agenda. I knew this already, to […]
