This post is unsolicited and un-sponsored and has nothing to do with anything other than an expression of appreciation for a Canadian treasure. I didn’t grow up in a CBC house. I mean, I do have fond memories of Mr Dressup and Danger Bay and Degrassi and The Friendly Giant and Video Hits (which, like, changed my [...]

And so passed the fastest/slowest year ever. The baby (and apparently I can always call him that, as I crowd-sourced recently) turned one. We had a low-key celebration. By low-key I mean it involved me, his brothers and a tray of brownies. He had a couple of presents and cards to open but mostly it [...]

I’m mired in a lot of uncertainty right now. For someone who likes to be organized and plans ahead, this isn’t the greatest place to be in. It’s not anything earth-shattering. It’s just a bunch of my maternity leave has ended and now I’m on vacation and I don’t know when the nanny is starting [...]

This post isn’t about laundry, actually. But it’s going to start there. My (older) children are now so convinced that I am the all-seeing, all-knowing mother deity I claim to be that if the wrong clothes are sorted into their drawers, they will insist on wearing them anyway, because IT WAS IN MY DRAWER SO [...]