I’ve given myself a gift this summer. A gift of four weeks of day camp for two out of three boys (the baby is not quite old enough to send out alone yet. YET). It cost a decent amount, this gift, but I think it’ll be worth it. The pros (7 hours of just me [...]

I’ve been thinking recently that I can’t really be called a mom blogger or a mommy blogger (*cringe*) because I don’t usually write blog posts dispensing advice about child rearing. Besides the fact that I don’t actually know what the hell I am doing most of the time, I believe there are about 234,567 right [...]

The house is steamy in this May heat wave but everyone is asleep so I’m content. It’s bad that I look forward to all three of them being asleep every night, right? But as it happens, as each of the three go down, and the last one’s finally quiet -  it’s like I can finally [...]

“How was your Mother’s Day?” she asked, at kindergarten drop off. “I…uh…hmm…” I stammered in response. Christ. So Sunday morning we had to get back to Toronto from Ottawa and quickly as Mark had to get to work, and we had to get the dog from the kennel. He took the boys for a swim [...]

Environmental protection is a constant topic of conversation in our house. Usually consisting of “don’t step on the butterfly”, “please don’t drop that Popsicle wrapper in the garden” and “bloody hell, the baby just had another blow out and he’s wearing a cloth diaper!”. But seriously, on a daily basis, I’m trying to impart that [...]

A week off of school! A week to bond and spend glorious family time together! A week to bask in a warm feeling of togetherness, while simultaneously basking in the oddly extra warm winter sun! What a lovely time we’ve had together! Look at these boys, how much they love each other! I’m totally lying. [...]

Four months in, and I’m still remembering everything I’d forgotten. That babies get linty toes and linty fingers. That it doesn’t really bother me to walk around covered in spit up all day every day. That a cough and a cold in a 3 month old can be completely terrifying. That happy sounds are the [...]

At the beginning of the month, Fisher-Price and Mom Central Canada sent us a large shipment of goodies for the kids. I particularly appreciated the timing as I needed them to be occupied while we attempted to unpack from our trip to the UK, and indoor distractions are always useful when I need to look [...]

The older two kids recently brought home their midterm report cards.  I’m not very fussed about report cards at this stage – they are so young, they are frankly smart enough (sometimes TOO smart), and we’ll worry about serious academia later on when it matters a lot more. However, it is always nice to see [...]

On Sunday, the following occurred: A woman, after listening to the baby cry on the airplane, told me “your baby needs water”. I replied with an ever-so-slightly annoyed “actually, I just had to go to the washroom, and now I’m going to feed him, thanks.” A woman stopped me in the grocery store to ask [...]