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Leave Your Baby-Talk at Home, Please.
Yesterday I woke up thinking about something… and then I read this post about childless friends, and thought I should add my “semi-related” thoughts about socialising. When I used to work out of the...
View ArticleStill Basking…
I’m still basking in my good dose of Oprah from these past several days. Some things she mentioned in her closing yesterday, about listening to what your life is telling you… about not waiting for...
View ArticleGetting Nothing Done.
I pretty much took the week off from wife-ing and mothering. I had a social media conference to go to on Tuesday, and between the cocktail party the night before, and the post conference dinner and...
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Adult time
Adult parties when I was kid were fascinating. I remember being corralled up stairs in my flannel pj’s after a brief hello to their guests and subsequently scolded for sitting on the stairs to peer...
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Morning
I love the solitude of early morning. The quality of the sunlight slanting into my living room. The quiet of the house before my daughters wake, shake off sleep and add their exuberant energy to the...
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Workshop
So the family is heading away for the weekend tomorrow night. Back to Hudson’s namesake just outside of Montreal. Hudson is a bucolic treasure on the shores of the lac des Deux Montagnes and where my...
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On Being a Woman on Her Own.
I don’t leave my family often. That is to say, I don’t travel much, and so far, since my children have been born, I’ve been away via airplane exactly three times. Thrice, in nine years. (Well, it’s...
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Being Invisible
There’s a lot going on around our house these days… I feel like I’m constantly on the go for unusual errands lately, and I’m running an awful lot. It’s okay though. My extra-long leather gloves,...
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Yes or No to Kid-Free Zones?!
How did I miss this story? I must have been distracted. A ‘man’ in the U.S. was charged with slapping a crying toddler on a flight. That was right after he used a racial slur to the parents about...
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We get wild.
My parents are watching the toddler for the night because we’re going out for dinner, and they picked him up this afternoon to take him away which gave us a long stretch of freedom before we had to be...
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the math behind getting away
I was thinking about the math behind taking the weekend off. The more you ‘suffer’ before pleasure the sweeter the pleasure also if you suffer you feel you deserve the break more Friday I woke up at...
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There’s No Place Like Home
On Sunday morning, just as dawn was breaking, I snuck out of my house, dragging a suitcase behind me and blazed a trail to the Kelowna airport where I hopped on a Toronto-bound plane for a retreat at...
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Come On Feel The Noise!
And with that….our vacation is over. And I think something else is over as well. My history of solo vacations. Yes. I said it. To me, it’s like a Dr. Phil moment. I’m waiting for him to come over...
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Moms in the Social Common
Before kids, I LOVED eating at great restos, hitting the arts & culture scene, and experiencing everything I could that comes with living in the city…OKAY I still do! But the first few years of...
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First Day of Preschool!
If there’s one thing we haven’t seen enough of lately, it’s kids’ First Day of School photos. So, let’s fix that problem! Here is Brinley on her first day of preschool. Rocking the whale backpack, of...
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Gimme a Break
We’ve always known how lucky we are, having all four grandparents living no more than a 10 minute drive from us. We’ve never paid for a babysitter. We get out regular for kid-free nights with friends....
View ArticleStudy Finds Teens Are Less Reliant On Social Networks
Social networks, the term has come to mean more than one thing in our society. And this particular study can really throw you for a loop if you focus on what most of us now think of when we say social...
View ArticleShe Lies To Me: A Parenting Anthem
Sometimes I think about what the soundtrack of my parenting. I admit that some days it would be that 54-40 hit, She Lies To Me. I always swore that I would never lie to my children. My parents lied to...
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Grocery Shopping Alone: How Parenting Has Changed Me
The evidence was staring me right in the face. Parenting has changed me. It’s not just that I can’t respond to a question with “Everything is awesome” without getting that stupid song stuck in my head....
View ArticleThe Six Emotional Stages Of Kid-Free Time
Once upon a time, my son’s dad took him to Palm Springs for nine days. I didn’t expect the roller coaster that would follow in my own emotions. Stage 1: Elation No making lunches. No marathon bedtime...
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Things I Took For Granted Pre-Kid
There are some things that only truly become magical when you become a parent. It’s hard to explain how the presence of a small human can transform the ordinary into the extraordinary, but I will do my...
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Parenting Lessons From A Taylor Swift Concert
As a mom, I recognize trouble when it walks in too, so Taylor Swift and I have some stuff in common. We both love high waisted shorts aka mom shorts. Her friends refer to her as the patron saint of...
View ArticleLetting Go Of The Mommy Guilt And Focusing On Me
I love being a student here in Halifax. I’ve been away from my kids for nearly two weeks and while I miss them terribly and can’t wait to come home, I have a dirty secret: I am having a great time....
View ArticleWhat’s A Mom Got To Do To Get A Little Privacy?
If you ever feel like you are insignificant, try to accomplish something on a deadline that is important to only you. It doesn’t really matter what it is. It might be something as innocuous as filling...
View ArticleRunning on Empty
My brow furrowed with irritation as the “please refuel” ding sounded in my car. I was halfway to my destination, running behind because of some unexpected pit stops. This would most definitely make me...
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