Nicole’s Favourite Things: The Pro-Aging Skin-Care Edition

It was my birthday this week! I love birthdays so much; mine, obviously, but also everyone else's. I mean, it's the day you came into the world, let us celebrate! And as I said in my last post, every day we are alive is a gift, every birthday we … [Continue reading]

Pro-Aging; Fifty-Seven Weeks In

I really hate the term anti-aging. I know it's just semantics, really, but I hate it. What a ridiculous concept, anti-aging. We are all aging every single moment; as they say in Les Mis, at the end of the day you're another day older. The only way to … [Continue reading]

Two Steps Back; Fifty-Six Weeks In

My older son gets terrible hay fever - May is the worst month for him - and although I'm hopeful that his outdoor-mask-wearing habit will help, I am fully stocked up on the allergy medications that, over the years, we have found to work for him: … [Continue reading]

Magic; Fifty-Five Weeks In

I have discovered an enormous upside to the physical aging process, other than the "not dying" part of the aging process. Not dying is a pretty big upside, but this new discovery is also huge. First, some background. Every morning, because I am … [Continue reading]

This Is Not An April Fool, I Really Am Cross As Two Sticks

I have been Quite Cross this week; not Constantly Cross, but Intermittently So. Some of my You're On My Last Nerve feeling could probably be attributed to hormones and upcoming ladies' holidays, the looming "third-wave" of Covid cases, the super-slow … [Continue reading]

A Very Eventful Week; Fifty-Four Weeks In

It has been a Very Eventful Week in the Boyhouse! First of all, it was our wedding anniversary. Just look at this fresh-faced young thing: Fast forward nineteen years to the day and that fresh-faced young thing was asking her handsome … [Continue reading]

Costco, Then and Now; Fifty-Three Weeks In

One of the best things about having a blog is being able to look back to see what was happening at any given month in the past; I always think in the moment that I'll remember something forever, and then I'll find myself wondering if that something … [Continue reading]