Nicole’s Favourite Things: Homemade Eye Makeup Remover

Regular readers and people who know me in person know that I am not an "au naturel" type of girl. Unless I'm deathly ill, I put on makeup and do my hair every single day. I have done this so long that I have it down to a science. I could fairly … [Continue reading]

The joys of tween boys.

Tweens, am I right? Parenting tweens is - I'm discovering - a funny business. There's the newly found need for space, the sudden interest in girls, the need for me to tell the kids to GET OUT OF THE SHOWER, IT'S BEEN TWENTY MINUTES. There's some … [Continue reading]

Boots and songbooks: where have you been all my life?

It's cold here, but not unusually so, by which I mean today was -22 without windchill and that is the coldest it has been all week. The rest of the week sat around -15 without windchill, which is certainly par for the course for January in … [Continue reading]

Late to the party!

It seems like most of the world was busy ferrying their children back to school yesterday, but mine spent most of the day in their pajamas; it was, strangely enough, a PD day. I was glad it was a PD day though, because I was a little busy yesterday … [Continue reading]

Professional Internet Commenter, or “PIC” for short

Happy New Year! And thank you to everyone who offered your kind words. I promise to keep on keeping on, because what if the mannequin came back? If a mannequin shows up in Nicole's alley, and Nicole doesn't write about it, does it really exist? We … [Continue reading]

Boyhouse Year In Review 2014

I have a confession to make: earlier this month, I thought of closing this blog down. I thought maybe I should retire it; when I started it in 2008 - 2008! - I was writing about life with two little boys, aged 3 and 4. I was writing about funny and … [Continue reading]

Cherry Cherry

Sometimes, in order to get motivated, one needs to have a period of complete sloth, and that was me last week. I didn't exercise. I didn't work. I did the bare minimum around the house. Basically I spent a lot of time on the couch, with a glass of … [Continue reading]