I used to hate winter —completely and utterly loathe it. I would get cranky when the leaves would disappear and pretty much hibernate until spring. Then I had a lightbulb moment. Unless I was moving my family to Hawaii, it was time to get with the program and embrace the snow. After all, in Canada, winter weather can be up to a five month affair. That's a lot of time to spend cooped up inside, especially with children. So I picked up ice skating again on our beloved Rideau Canal, then we …
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School is starting soon. It’s the time of the year when I have to pull up my organizational bootstraps and prepare for the onslaught of paper that will soon be pouring out of backpacks and onto my kitchen table. I’d like …
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Some would argue that fall is the most wonderful time of the year; the true "new year". Kids are back in school, parents are back on routine and the outside world explodes in colour. Of all the seasons, we crush on …
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Sometimes, in the middle of the night, I like to ever so casually give my husband a nudge. What can I say, he irritates me lying there so peacefully. The man can literally sleep anywhere, anytime, under any conditions …
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