Life In Pleasantville
Food, Travel, Life
Lunch box confusion is upon us once again. It’s a boomerang issue of what to pack that is healthy, that will get eaten, that avoids nuts and other allergens, and that can be packed fast as well as consumed quickly. Five Tips to Avoid Lunch Box Drama I scan the packages and aisles constantly not only …
It’s always sad to see summer pass us by so quickly. But I have a confession to make, I’m looking forward to fall! Please don’t hate me! Fall is my favourite season thanks to rich colours and boots. Not the boots needed for trudging through deep snow, but all the other lovely ones. I also LOVE a great sweater. …
Summer is but a memory for us now and parents everywhere are being thrown into the chaos of a new school year. It’s go time. I’m a big fan of finding the time to prepare meals ahead of time whenever possible. I love nothing more than spending a Sunday cooking in my kitchen and preparing …
Do you like haunted houses? Roller coasters? Do you enjoy that rush that comes from physical thrills? That’s how I feel about a really good sci-fi movie–except all the loopty-loops happen in the head. Everyone should be a fan of science fiction films. It’s seldom that a film of any other genre (no matter how entertaining) …
Six years ago my husband and I packed up our little family of three to move to the Virgin Islands. I am often asked by people what living here is really like, they often add why they would or wouldn’t be able to live in the tropics. Living here is so many of the …
Believe me. There is no one who dreads back to school as much as I do. My kids think they are the ones with all the stress and worry over going back, but under my cool and calm exterior my inner child is panicking about a forgotten text book, a poorly practiced Clarinet piece, and …
After buying our first fixer upper house in 2009, transforming it on a zero-budget, and then recently tackling a large-scale addition and renovation in 2014/15, we have tackled do-it-yourself projects big and small. You can catch most of them over at my blog, THE SWEETEST DIGS. There is nothing I love more than rescuing a piece …
Stay calm. Breathe in, aaaand breathe out. You’ve likely been hearing through the media that the stock markets are falling. We are in crisis, recession, dark clouds etc., etc. According to the media, it’s the end of the world as we know it. Not so fast! Remember that this has happened before, most recently in …
