My mom started a tradition in our family to tell us our birth story on our birthday, every year. I always loved listening to mom’s stories, even if it wasn’t my birthday because my mom is an amazing storyteller. I loved hearing about how she felt when we were born and how much she loved [...]
The Olympics is going to be in Vancouver this year and the Olympic torch is running its way across Canada as we speak. I didn’t know anything about the tradition of the torch so I looked it up on the good old wikipedia. Have I said how much I LOVE wikipedia?
Here’s what I learned.
The [...]
Today is the last day of Chuck’s 2 weeks off of work. We’ve done a few fun things but mostly we’ve been watching movies and eating popcorn. Aren’t we exciting?
Chuck decided that we needed to send the holidays off with a bang so we took the kids out to Banff to go skating. We [...]
I am so excited to get 2010 started but I can’t feel comfortable with moving forward until I pay homage to the past and that means writing this obligatory Christmas post complete with pictures and everything. Don’t you feel so lucky?
I already posted pictures of the kids making candy trains which is a family tradition [...]
Last year I had great plans to make all of our Christmas gifts but I put off the preparation and ran out of time. One of the great things about homemade gifts is that besides being wrapped in handmade love it’s cheaper which is something I love. The downside to homemade is that it requires [...]