I’ll be the first to admit that I do not love Halloween. It is not my favourite holiday. I probably haven’t looked forward to it for many years. I can find very little redeeming in a night that is focused on the scary and the evil and the dark parts of life. But there is…
Family Life
Mother Sees All
It is dark. Quiet. Not too quiet though, as my kids are in bed and supposed to be sleeping. Quiet is good. Quiet means that they are in their respective beds, trying to drift off to dreamland. Quiet means that I can finally just stop the daily grind and veg for a bit. Quiet means…
Home for the Holidays
There’s just something about this place. There’s something about the big tree in the backyard that is filling our lawn with red and orange leaves. There is something about little boys in their slightly-too-large coats running over those leaves with toy lawnmowers. There is something about the sun streaming in through the big living room…
Car Seat Conversations
This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Britax. The opinions and text and stories are 100% mine. My husband keeps asking when we get to turn Gavin around in his car seat. Our one and a half year old is still rear-facing while the rest of the family all looks forward,…
Book Review: The Silent Wife
“A few short months are all it will take to make a killer out of her.” (Chapter 1) I picked up The Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison because it was suggested that I would like this book if I liked Gone Girl. A few paragraphs into the first chapter was all I needed to realize that…
How To Run Your Best Race: Super Fast
Until recently, I kind of forgot that Amy was always the athletic one growing up. At nearly three years my junior, she was the sporty one. That’s what happens in families. You forge your own niches to stand out from the rest of your siblings. We both were successful in school and filled our schedules…
Why Moms Run
I often wonder why I chose NOW to run. No, I don’t mean now now. I’m not certainly not running now as I am typing and I won’t be running the moment this post goes live, and it is probably unlikely that I will be running while you are reading these words. By “now”, I mean…
Starting Daycare
This year, we were blissfully unaffected by the typical September routine shakeup that most people know as Back To School. Still, as parents are dropping off children at preschool and kindergarten for the first time; as they walk away, wondering if their children’s days will be good or if they will miss them at all,…
Y is for Your Sister
To my baby sister, (and any other young girl starting university,) This letter is timely. I’m not sure if you’re following the news, but my head is currently reeling from learning of a chant that was sung during this year’s frosh week at a local university. When I heard the words of the chant read…
A Foolproof Method of Birth Control
To maintain the utmost discretion, the list below is a compilation of experiences that friends have shared with me, along with some of my own experiences. I have a very hard time remembering past moves. I vaguely remember pulling up to the front of residence in first year university to unload enough stuff to fill…
In His Arms
(Written a few days before we closed on the new house.) There was once a place that I thought was perfect. I’d lay there and know that nothing could touch me. Not stress. Not anger. Not sadness. Not pain. The world disappeared and I was free to just breathe. I remember that place so vividly,…
