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What We’re Into: 2.22.2013 Edition
Eating We just started a new menu plan and daily schedule that I’m excited about and will share more details in the near-ish future. One of the new features of our supper plan is a Friday night nosh...
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How to Eat: the Thoughts Behind the Action
There’s GAPS, Paleo, and Lacto-Paleo. Gluten-free, dairy-free, grass-fed organic meat and happy chickens. It can be a lot especially when everyone is changing their diet or is intolerable to something...
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What We’re Into: 3.8.2013
Eating: We’ve been enjoying the treat of weekend breakfasts again and even made these waffles on a weekday. Jared is the main waffle maker in our household and this recipe is a keeper. Best waffles....
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10 on 10: March Edition
The sun is out and dancing on every surface in the house and I am so happy a little imaginative play my littlest, on my hip, she’s growing up and I cherish these times tea for...
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Play Date to Change the World
We smiled hello over the joyous greetings of our children which sounded like small screams and little bodies jumping. They were off like a shot to the bedroom and the books and the dollies. I put the...
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Sometimes we Eat Cake
I came home after a couple hours of quiet and asked if I should make cake. It had been a long month, it snowed twice after the first day of spring and I was working through, you know, stuff. But...
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In Which I Talk about Menu Planning When Life is a Hodge-Podge
And it’s over! All the classes, all the exams, all the performances and all the rehearsals. It was our first year and it was crazy and intense and hard and good and totally worth it. I say ‘we’ and...
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Baby Steps for a (food) Revolution
In celebration of Food Revolution Day started by Jamie Oliver, here are my baby steps to start a revolution in your own kitchen. Here’s to all of us eating real food and making wise choices with what...
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First Picnic of the Year (Recipe: roasted rhubarb compote)
It was the second really hot, sunshine-filled day. Summer was definitely here and it begged us to pack a picnic and head to the ocean. It was the sort of day where daddies filled the little plastic...
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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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Love for the Home { a simple menu planning method}
At the beginning of the month I recapped my January goals and talked about how much I loved getting back into the menu planning groove. I also promised a full post talking more about how it works for...
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10/52
a portrait of my girls, once a week, every week in 2014 Kilmeny loves to peel her own clementines, she methodically gets all the peel off and then pulls all the little strings off. She separates each...
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What I learned In April
Linking up again with the lovely Emily from Chatting at the Sky for a super fun list of things we learned in the past month -deep, meaningful, trival and hilarious. 1. I can be impatient for Spring to...
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In Which I Talk about Menu Planning When Life is a Hodge-Podge
And it’s over! All the classes, all the exams, all the performances and all the rehearsals. It was our first year and it was crazy and intense and hard and good and totally worth it. I say ‘we’ and...
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