Unless you are one of the lucky ones, it can seem damned near impossible to get a baby to sleep through the night. After gallons of tears and coffee, it can still feel like sleep is unattainable. No matter how you go about doing it, sleep is a struggle with babies. As for me, I…
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Zzzonked – 5 Tips to Get Through the Sleepless Nights
One of my favourite parts of each day is that moment at the end when I am just about ready to call it a night. The chores are as done as they will ever be and the lights have been switched off. The last to go to bed, I very quietly head down the hall…
Notes From the Other Side of a Birthday
So. I am 27. As of Thursday. I had a birthday. A stay-at-home, put-on-a-dress, and-makeup-too, love-filled birthday. It was as fabulous as I could hope for being surrounded by my three best men on Valentine’s Day. I like my birthday. The day is always love-filled and I am always placed right in the middle of…
Love You To Death
File this under ‘Things I never thought I’d say‘. (If you’re a Mom, you know how unbelievably huge that file is). “Stop squishing your brother. Stop now! STOP STRANGLING HIM, Cameron!” With a toddler and an infant, I feel like everyone’s life is constantly hanging in the balance and it is my job to make…
MomsReading Housekeeping
It has been a little over a week since I shared with you my vision of #MomsReading, an online community of readers determined to take back those all-too-busy moments and use them to read. Your response to this group has been absolutely astounding. I am so glad that this idea is something that you have…
Dear Gavin: A Love Letter On Your 9 Month Day(ish)
My Baby. Last week you turned nine months old. Nine months is always kind of a magical time for me. It represents the point in which you have been out in this world as long as you were deep inside of me. It implies some sort of independence – you as you grow and begin…
Great Expectations
Have you met Greta before? She blogs at GFunkified and she was gracious enough to let me blog there today too. I have happened across her blog a couple of times during the past few years of blogging but I have just recently started to get to know her. Greta is a sweet and genuine person and…
You Knew Us When
“I’m going to be on Treehouse!” We had just sat down to breakfast at a restaurant the morning after our long shoot day in Toronto. Cameron, my two year old, was beaming with pride at our waitress. “…with the Octonauts!” If you’re not a Canadian, you might not quite understand the level of excitement that…
Resolutions
January used to be a time for resolutions. And it still is, for some. But to others, resolutions are taboo. We don’t want to make them and we don’t want to break them. We are wary of broad statements that draw attention to our flaws. Making resolutions is scary. It is often too personal and too…
Let’s Start at the Beginning: How to Pre-Wash Cloth Diapers
January always brings me back to the very beginning. It is a time to reexamine the habits we have formed and maybe, just possibly, aim to be better – better for our kids, better for the environment, better for ourselves. I’ll soon be sharing with you my resolutions, but I thought now would be a…
Mom(‘)s Reading
If I could shut out the world and have one evening to myself – an evening without the nagging to do list or the messy house or the crying kids at bedtime – I would whisk myself away to a quiet fireside oasis. There I would sink, curled up in an extra large armchair and…