• I Thought About Leaving My Baby in A Garbage Can….How to Help Someone with Postpartum Depression

    19/10/2015 - By 

    A little while ago, I was reading one of my favourite blogs, MindBodyGreen, and answered an open call to tell a story about struggles having kids or in the first year. I answered, with the intention to just offer sympathy to these women who are trying and can’t have kids, but ended up telling my own story. I was honoured when they wanted to publish it. My story was about surviving postpartum depression. I think every woman has a bit of depression after having a baby. This is bad enough itself and women don’t often offer up that they are…

  • My Crazy Week.

    13/10/2015 - By 

    Well, everyone I have talked to has a crazy busy week. Did we all put off tasks until after Thanksgiving? (Hi, Fellow Canadians!) For me, it is just how the week stacked up. I have a million appointments, volunteering at my son’s school all week, a bunch of shopping to do, a birthday party to shop for, laundry to do and I am committed to finishing all of my Kayla Itsine’s Bikini Body workouts this week. I have talked to so many women today that have the same packed schedule as I do. I am going to have to put…

  • The Guilt of Not Working

    28/09/2015 - By 

    Being a stay-at-home mom is a job. Actually, it is many jobs. Without breaks. Or bonuses. It is the hardest job I have ever done, and I have had 3 jobs at once. So why do I feel so guilty?   I think the image I found above is fairly accurate. (Thank you, internet.) Except in the last picture have her doing the laundry while booking appointments on the phone, drinking cold coffee, and filling out school forms on the computer…. at the same time as burning lunch and pulling on her jacket to go get her kindergartner…..and it’s what…

  • My Favourite Fairytales

    08/09/2015 - By 

    My kids love fairy tales. My son, who is nearly 5, especially. My daughter prefers realistic stories about animal life in nature. My son loves the fantasy and bravado of fairy tales. He loves that an amazing miracle or something comedic can happen at any moment. When my son was two years old he began to love Disney and fairy tales a LOT. I can’t count how many times we watched Cinderella. He would pretend to be the prince that was saving her and it melted my heart. He wants to get to know every blonde girl he sees as…

  • How to Make Your Own Christmas Tree Advent Calendar

    08/12/2014 - By 

    Happy December! I meant to post this earlier but there is still time to make this if you wanted to. Just leave the days that have already passed empty or fill them with only tissue paper. Christmas Tree Advent Calender Here is what you need: Toilet paper rolls, cut in half. Enough to make 24 empty spots Tissue paper, in Christmas colours or only green. Your choice. Paint, watercolors or acrylic Candies (We used our leftover Halloween candy) Hot glue gun or clear craft glue. Piece of cardboard or card stock for backing (we left ours plain but you could…

  • Isabella’s Room Redecoration

    20/05/2014 - By 

    I love decorating. Often it is more crowded and organized chaos, nearly bohemian, than most people’s tastes. This time I decided to be more clean, straight forward and focused. My mother-in-law generously offered to take the children for 6 days for Husband and I’s wedding anniversary present. Although we carved out some time for a date night (we saw “The Lunchbox” at Eau Claire theater and I HIGHLY recommend you go and see that movie) and night-time couch snuggling while we watched evening TV, I spent most of my time redecorating some of our rooms. It took me 5 of…