My father grew up in the same space he still lives. Built in 1920 by my grandmother’s father on 525 acres of rocky farmland, it was my grandparents until my dad married and started his family. They then built a cute bungalow less than one kilometre away and that’s the only place I ever knew […]
Archives for September 2016
Meal Planning: Week 1
Ever have one of those weeks where you are running at a break neck pace only to find out that come the weekend, you have to take it up a notch? Or maybe one of those weeks that you finish the week looking longingly at your couch knowing that you and it will not get […]
Reasons I Need Caffeine This Week: Week 4
As I mentioned last week, we had a brief reprieve in the hockey schedule. It gave me a ton of time to get things done. Which is probably good because the full blown schedule starts this weekend and I’ll be spending 9 hours at rinks this weekend. Actually, now that I mention it, I should […]
Stories from a Small Town: The Road that Leads You Home
This past Tuesday, I had enough of trying to assemble IKEA furniture and decided to take the boys out to visit their grandfather. We drove the back roads to the highway that had been, in my youth, just two lanes but recently had been upgraded to four. My brain still screams at me that I’m […]
Farm Wife with No Farm
If I had a dollar for every time someone told me “I don’t know how you do it all”, I wouldn’t have to go to work in the morning. Ok, truth is I might be able to buy myself a decent dinner with the amount, but you hear things enough times and you kind of […]
