To my hands You've been ever so faithful, all of these years. You've soothed the brows of feverish children, you've washed alot of dishes, and scrubbed alot of floors. You've carried burdens, and gotten dirt under your finger nails. You've proudly worn your wedding...

Sky diveGo on a bike trip around Eastern CanadaPublish a bookTake my daughters back-packing in EuropeEat Thai food in ThailandHave a career as a freelance writerHang-glideOwn a house with a verandah (yes, D&L, I’m jealous)Learn to paintGo on another trip with just...

Just preparing another convert for the Folk Festival! Introducing... my lovely niece Abigail who will join us for her first pilgrimage to the greatest festival on earth, come July!

I’m sitting here staring at my screen. Paralyzed. Wordless. I’ve opened the document named “annual report” a thousand times, and it still has nothing but a heading. I’ve started the first paragraph a few times, but I keep deleting it. I have nothing to say.The curse...

See that bottom number? The one that says 500.00? Yes, that's the number of kilometres I've ridden my bike in the last month. Not bad, eh? Actually, I've done a few more than that by now, but on the way to Home Depot tonight, the whole family had to stop while I took...

It was a full and family-filled weekend. Julie was in a soccer tournament, and because her team ended up in the finals (which they lost 1-0, boohoo), they had 5 games. So a fair bit of time was spent shuffling back and forth to soccer fields (oh, and one trip to the...

I can TOO keep a plant alive!

Ummmmm... I LOVE cookie dough. When I was a kid, I used to wonder why we had to waste time baking the cookies when the dough tasted so much better than the cookies. So it's not hard to imagine that, now that I'm a mother, I don't have much trouble indulging my kids...

Sometimes I am a weak and foolish person.Sometimes I hurt people because I jump to conclusions.Sometimes I am impatient with my children.Sometimes I approach motherhood like a duty and forget that it is a privilege.Sometimes I don’t try hard enough to understand other...

This little fellow came to visit us tonight. After a collision with our window, he was a little stunned and quite docile. Anyone know what kind it is? He has a lovely greenish colour to him. (We'd just biked home from a soccer game - hence the bike gloves. The girls...