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Picnic at Sunset: Embracing the Spontaneity of Dinner gone Wrong
It was a super hot day. The kind of day where you wanted to just hang out in your backyard pool or sipping cold drinks all day long. The little girls were hot too. They didn’t want to hang out in...
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Swimming Lessons and Summer Meals
The swim suits lay damp on the edge of the bathtub. The floor is gritty with bits of sand. I smell sunshine and water and coconut on the backs of their necks. It’s summer, sweet summer. Our schedule is...
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To Mother Boldly: a Tale of Two Strawberry Pickings
We’re on a super mini-vacation right now in a favourite city of ours, Montreal, and these lessons from the strawberry field are true as we explore the city with our littles. It was perfect...
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30/52
a picture of my girls, once a week, every week in 2013 Kilmeny, enjoying a pink Italian soda. Pink is her favourite colour. Her favourite everything right now. She told me when selecting an all pink...
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The Doing and The Being and The Celebrating of Good Food
The ribs are marinating in their tomato based bath, there’s a few blueberry muffins leftover from breakfast and the corn sits ready to be husked by little hands. It’s late August and today is my...
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Autumn and the Filling of the Store Stump
“It was a fine autumn. The blackberries were ripe and the nuts were ready, and the mice of Brambly Hedge were very busy. Every morning they went out into the fields to gather seeds, berries and roots,...
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Day 18:: Get Outside
Make time to go outside today. Breathe in the crisp autumn air. No, really. Do it. Bundle up against the wind, find a new place to explore, bring some food and some tea in a thermos. Stay until the...
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Just Eat Real Food (and a giveaway!)
The conversation happened years ago in the garden. The plants were all at their peak, requiring all the tasks to be accomplished before the sun got too high in the sky. We were weeding and picking...
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Play to Your Strengths
Last month I went to a playdate at a friend’s house, it was one of the first times I’d gone out by myself with all three kids and I knew that even if all of us ended up having tears, her house was a...
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Date Night In: our one habit of 2016
The kitchen is a mess from the busyness of the day, coffee mugs and plates piled along with mixing bowls and way too many glasses. There’s still a pile on the entry bench from where I gathered all the...
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