We as mothers have a lot of things to remember and plan on any given day. We might be cleaning toilets, planning meals, grocery shopping, doing laundry, making lunches, cleaning up play-doh, volunteering at school, rushing to pick up kids from daycare, driving kids to basketball games or dance class. On top of this never …
Are you secretly stewing about the imminent gatherings that bring you and your family together as the holidays grow nearer? Maybe there’s that one difficult family member that just creates so much drama??? Maybe you day-dream about a holiday that avoids the extended family all together. I hear stories like this: “She is just so …
Every year after Christmas this is what I tell myself…. “Next year, I am going to have all of my shopping done in October and the wrapping done in November so that I will be able to enjoy Christmas.” Guess what… I have yet to reach this lovely goal! How many of you have felt …
Have you ever met that person who is really happy all the time? Does being around them make you wonder why you aren’t happier. Have you ever thought it to be strange or weird when someone around you seems ‘too’ happy? There have been many studies, copious amount of research and numberless articles on this …
I love to bake and cook and be in the kitchen. One of the things I love about the kitchen is the wide array of amazing tools that we have at our disposal to make cooking and baking less time consuming, easier and convenient. I would say in our world today most of us love …
When I was in elementary school I was lucky enough to be one of the kids who got to ride the very big yellow limousine to school. AKA The School Bus! I grew up on Vancouver Island and the house I lived in with my family sat upon a small acreage with a very long …
I love Chocolate. In my opinion, it is a wonderful part of the human experience. I know that chocolate is not for everyone, but my brain really wants to argue with how that could possibly be true! A couple of years ago I took a chocolate-making class. In this class, we were taught how to …
Every day there is a silent dialogue going on in your brain. Your subconscious brain is talking to you, whether you like it or not. Our brains are so advanced that we don’t even have to lift a finger to turn the dialogue on. It just turns on automatically. At the end of the day, …
There are a couple of things that I used to think were universal truths You don’t litter (Who does that?) And you don’t lie. I have come to the conclusion with much more life experience under my belt, that I was highly misinformed in both of these beliefs. Firstly, people DO litter. I know because …
I live in Calgary Canada. Our winters are typically long and cold and I am always longing for them to end. Here are a few reasons why: 1) Dog walks in the freezing cold are excruciating. Poor puppy doesn’t even walk on all fours. He will hop or hold one paw up off the ice …
