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Schools have begun closing in many places – the days are definitely longer and the nights much shorter. The long cold winter days are finally behind us. There are two brothers roughly my sons age (4-5) who have been coming to play with our kids every day after school without fail. They ring the door […]

The past weekend our little family took a small getaway to celebrate Victoria Day here in Canada. We were right at Niagara Falls for a few days and it was splendid! Being the first rest we have had in a while from the hum drum days of winter life, hubby and I purposed to just

We have two neighborhood kids who come by to play with our kids after school daily without fail. They literally just walk in through the front door and off they all go down the street to play. To say I have dreamt of this day would be an understatement. A time when kids just left

Going to the playground with the kids usually gives me downtime. I literally park the car in the parking lot and right when I turn off the ignition they have jumped up and have dashed off to the swings. I sometimes have a book or just sit on a bench and watch the birds. I

Our team at work has slowly been heading back into the office over the past few weeks. It has been great breaking – bread with teammates over lunch and sharing jokes. I will say though that nothing beats the comfort of working in sweatpants in the comfort of my living room. Today at the end

Technology, screens and devices are ubiquitous. They are everywhere. There is just no escaping their presence. Last week I was listening to James Clear, author of atomic Habits on one of Brenee Browns’ podcasts and he talked about a concept known as environment design. Basically it is the idea that the way in which you

Ever since I was young I have been those people who pursued people in the fringes and margins of the food chain. The ones who society easily overlooks in the hum drum of life. Maybe its because growing up I was always that shy, introverted girl who barely wanted to take up space and always

The other day I had an impromptu mummy daughter date with my little one. So we went to the thrift store as I needed to pick some items. While there of course she made her way to the toy isle and as she was looking through the toys I was fortunate the aisle I needed

So the last couple of Friday Movie nights my daughter (3) has loved and requested we watch Finding Dory like twice. She loved the idea of “looking for her parents,” etc. So today we borrowed Finding Nemo – considered the “O.G” of the finding series. I figured well it should have the same theme and

So we have a new thing we started recently in our home. “Library Fridays” We head to the library the kids pick up DVDs – yep they enter the library and make a beeline for the DVD section. In a whole library. The reader in me used to get appalled to instead of getting exasperated