a woman and mother storytelling her days
It's been a smoky couple of days in the city. The smoke from the forest fires in the province that neighbors us has blown over, and I'm sad for the circumstances, but trying to find the silver lining. At a new moon circle I attended last week, the ceremony started off with the burning of …
I have always wished for travel to be more affordable within Canada, and it finally is! Canada is such a beautiful country, but it is vast, so unless you're able to travel 14+ hours in car often - which we have done many times - travel can get quite expensive. In fact, for many years, …
Golden Days and Carnivals; a pretty accurate way to describe this period of life. 3 years old and 1.5 years old, and what a beautiful age Penelope and Oliver are going through right now. Penelope's personality makes my heart smile. She is an artist. She dances and sings beautifully, and her taste in music is …
It's been raining a lot the past couple of weeks, and you can tell the plants are happy for it. Every year around this time, our backyard flowers begin to bloom, and making backyard bouquets is something I have fallen in love with. I am so grateful for the previous owners of our home - a …
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There is something so therapeutic about watering a plant- have you noticed? Try it! Even if you don't have any plants of your own, try watering one of your friend's or family's; it's awesome! You can almost hear the plant saying "thank you". In a wonderful way, my green thumb flourished as soon as I …
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Last week when working on our yard, we trimmed a few of our trees, and I couldn't bring myself to throw away this branch. It's not the first time this happens. Something about branches, seems to me anyway, often asks to be transformed. Maybe it's the artist in me, and if not, finding potential and …
I never imagined that this little room in the west corner of our home would hold such a special place in my heart. It is just a room, but symbolically, it's much more than that. It's the space my children have shared since Oliver was one month old. At one point, this room had two …
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I was in sixth grade math class the day I had my first period leak. For 13 year old me, this was pretty much my worst nightmare. I remember loosening the straps of my backpack so it would cover the leak on the back of my jeans, and praying that none of the boys in …
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I always wondered what the equivalent of a Man Cave would be for women? Do we have one? I'm calling it "Lady Cave". It both hints to a space where women can have conversations about womanly stuff, and lady cave of course hints to our feminine part, which will be talked about a lot on …
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Motherhood and my children have been the most inspiring thing that has happened to me, and it motivated me to write; about them, about us, about our days together - Our Everydays. I cannot believe it has been a year since I posted my first words on this blog. And what a wonderful journey of …
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