Growing kids, growing me
Monthly reviews are one of my favourite traditions. Here's how it works - every month I come up with some things I learned, and not always the easy way. Then, I ask you all to join in with some recent revelations of your own. And we all learn and … [Read more ...]
Children are born with talents of their own, which is one of the most amazing parts of parenting. For example, from the age of four my daughter Hannah has spent hours and hours drawing and painting. While her father and I are drawing stick people, … [Read more ...]
If there was one message I got as a teenage girl, it was this: never walk alone at night. Bad things happen to women who are out by themselves after dark. This was in the days before cell phones, as well, which meant that if you were alone you were … [Read more ...]
For a few years now, I've scheduled my blog posts to run every morning at 6:00am Pacific time, five or six days a week. Sometimes, I wrote several posts all at once. Sometimes I sat up late at night, trying desperately to finish something to run the … [Read more ...]
We all know the drill: Eat whole foods, mostly vegetables. Don't eat too much sugar. Don't eat too much fat. Don't eat too much salt. Don't eat things that come in packages. Don't eat things with ingredients you can't pronounce. There are lots of … [Read more ...]
When we bought this house 10 years ago, we had no idea what we were getting into. As young professionals with two incomes and no kids, we had saved a fairly sizeable nest egg. We planned to buy our house, do some renovations, pay off the moving … [Read more ...]
Sometimes being a parent is totally awesome. Other times it's a whole lot of work, and maybe even a little (or more than a little) icky, but for today I want to focus on the awesome parts. One of the things that makes being a parent awesome is the … [Read more ...]
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