After we dropped her big sisters off at summer camp, Maddie got her parents' undivided attention for a few hours at the beach. Sun, sand, ducks, water goggles, new families to adopt on the beach, slushies in the middle of the week (she was SO thrilled we broke the...

Remember our disappointment when we found out Marcel had not been accepted into the education program? Well, we got good news today. They found a spot for him!It seems a little coaxing (I wrote a letter to the university expressing our disappointment and Marcel wrote...

(Warning: not a post for the young or faint of heart.)Yesterday, as I drove home from getting my hair cut, I listened to an interview with three of the victims of this horrific crime. I pulled into a parking lot and sat and cried as they re-told stories that were...

Not much of a post today - just stopping by in the middle of a busy and fun long weekend to say happy belated Canada Day (to my Canadian friends) and happy 4th of July in advance (to my American friends). I hope you're having as much fun as we're having this weekend -...

Have you seen the dancing guy video yet? If not, you really should. It'll make you want to drop everything and DANCE!

I may not be a perfect parent, I may yell at them from time to time, I may get impatient and ignore them when I've got something I want to do, I may forget to do the laundry and send them to school with mis-matched socks... BUT at least I don't leave my sleeping child...

Thank you for welcoming the cool Nikki to blogworld. She's tickled pink with all her comments.Now can you oblige me one more time and welcome another new blogger? Want some more hints?- she's a spunky freckled redhead with a great sense of humour- she's a whiz at...

I work downtown. Nearly every day, I walk past the poor, the destitute, the marginalized of society. I’ve learned to block it out – the glaring poverty around me. After so many years of walking downtown streets, I know how to insulate myself against it. I don’t really...

Don’t you sometimes want to mess with billboards and ad campaigns? Sometimes advertising brings out the subversive in me and I find myself tempted to climb up onto a billboard with a can of spray paint to add a few words of truth. In the mornings, I cycle past an...

With tonight's final game (a nail-biter resulting in Julie's team emerging victorious), soccer season ends until September. Next week will find us twiddling our thumbs, not knowing what to do with all the free evenings. Perhaps we'll set up our lawn chairs on the edge...