Hi friends! Happy New Year's Eve! I hope you have all been having a lovely holiday season. I have, as I alluded to before, been getting a lot of rest, restoring myself to start the New Year refreshed. 2025 was a year marked by a lot of difficult, … [Continue reading]
Nostalgic Festive Chaos
December 22, 2025 by
I love looking around other people's houses, and I love seeing all the little touches that make a house a home: photos and artwork, knickknacks and book stacks, colour and materials and furniture. I particularly love it during the holiday season when … [Continue reading]
Nicole’s Favourite Things: The “It Was Warm and Smelled of Yummy Things” Edition
December 18, 2025 by
At this time of year when my kids were small, we would read many holiday-themed books, and the favourite of all of ours was The Littlest Christmas Tree, about a tiny tree who despairs of ever becoming a Christmas tree because of his diminutive size. … [Continue reading]
Acts of Service
December 15, 2025 by
While decorating the tree and the interior of the house is firmly a whole-family affair, putting up the outdoor lights and decorations are solely in my husband's jurisdiction, with some help from one or both of our sons. He was finishing setting them … [Continue reading]
Five For Friday: The 2025 Five Star Edition
December 12, 2025 by
My New Personality and Identity as a War Buff. Spotify Wrapped was released a few weeks ago, and I looked dispassionately at my top five podcasts, all of which were chatty-style, women-hosted, independent podcasts. It felt like a far-off memory, a … [Continue reading]
Neither Rain Nor Sleet Nor Snow Nor Hail
December 8, 2025 by
I was at the post office, elf-like, with a bag full of parcels to mail. There were a few people waiting in line, so I picked up some flat-rate boxes and started cramming things into them as best I could, addressing them merrily. One of the parcels … [Continue reading]
Do You Remember the Very First Night of December
December 1, 2025 by
Get Your Calendars Ready! Happy December, everyone! Are we all starting Advent calendars today? I have my usual dogs-in-Santa-hats puzzle calendar ready to go, but after last year's extreme disappointment over a much-coveted After Eight calendar, … [Continue reading]
