Living Creatively, Living the Dream
With 2015 coming to an end and the New Year just a few hours away, I thought I’d take a moment to recap a bit of our year…with a photo representing each month. This year, a hockey tournament brought us Continue reading 2015…the year in photos…
The holidays are a time to relax…spend some time with the family enjoying home-made cookies and your favourite holiday shows. Time for hot chocolate…with Baileys, relaxing in PJs, big breakfasts and board games. It’s a time to re-group after a busy Continue reading Christmas with Netflix…and a giveaway!
If you’re like me, you’ve a couple of sports nuts in your family and you’re constantly planning your schedule around practices and games. For us, volleyball and hockey play a huge role in our daily lives. While Bones is on Continue reading Are you giving the #GiftOfSport this holiday season? What sport is part of your family…and how does it bring you together?
This photo has been making its rounds in my Facebook news feed over the last two days. It completely warms my heart…and brings back a flood of memories. In September of 1992, I returned to school to obtain a degree Continue reading How I went back to school as a single mom…
I know the pain of losing a baby. This week, as we decorate our tree, I will place an ornament front-and-center of a guardian angel. It represents a baby I wanted so dearly. That was not to be. I know Continue reading East Coast Miracles…
I spent the weekend trying to convince myself that Bones DIDN’T have a concussion…and the second the diagnosis was confirmed, I felt like the worst mother on the planet! It’s not my first day at the rodeo. A few years ago, Continue reading Signs your kid might have a concussion & an end to the volleyball season…
For the 3rd year in a row, Bones and I had the opportunity to attend WeDay with Telus…sitting in a box above the crowd and meeting some of the folks on stage. It’s always a wonderful treat to feel the energy Continue reading WeDay, Craig Kielburger, TELUS, #CallForChange…
I got married at Disney. Sort of. Four friends on a girls weekend away from any responsibilities, we decided to visit Disney for a different kind of magical adventure…as in, we headed to Epcot to eat and drink our way around Continue reading Happily ever after…
Have you started decorating? Shopping? Did you haul out the holiday music? Are you getting excited? ‘Cause here’s the thing…I AM! I’m super pumped and excited to see holiday decor in the stores, I’m starting to think that it might be Continue reading Join us for Wicker Emporium’s Holiday Twitter Party! #WickerParty
Spiderman caught me at an incredibly weak moment…I’d been down and out in bed for several days with the flu when he asked if “the team” could sleep over. I did a quick calculation in my head and thought…12 guys Continue reading A sleepover with 18 boys…because they can…
Remember the flexed-arm hang? It was part of the Participaction Award of Excellence. That shiny badge you’d get in gym class…awarded to the very best…those who could jump and run and whack balls and shimmy a rope all the way to the Continue reading The Best of Halifax…my Award of Excellence…
I’m so behind on my reading it’s not even funny. There was a time, I knew everything on the best seller lists and kept up to date on every literary masterpiece…paying special attention to the Canadian authors. But, this last Continue reading Between the Pages…
It’s possible I’m as sick as a dog. At this very moment, Bones is at volleyball practice where she had to find her own ride to AND from. On top of that, I had to cancel her riding lesson as Continue reading Sick as a dog…
The Tall Blonde had been after me about needing glasses for quite some time. Apparently she couldn’t see the board, supposedly didn’t see the volleyball when it was on the other side of the court or coming towards her, didn’t like Continue reading Kids See Free program…and why I didn’t believe my kid needed glasses!
I first met Pam when our daughters played on the same volleyball team. She’s vibrant…full of life…laid back and ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS. This mom of two teenaged daughters, Sarah and Jenna, has been married for 17 years to her partner-in-crime. “He Continue reading Pam Currie #KIAWorkingMom
“I hope you meet a good man just like him someday,” my mother said to me last night as she sat on the edge of the bed with her feet swinging ever so slightly…a tell-tale sign she was on the mend. Continue reading A little worse for wear…and pretty darned Thankful!
It’s October 10th and I’ve not written a thing this month. I’ve thrown myself into work. I’ve watched Netflix. I’ve attended sporting events, meetings, a conference, a few dinners out and coffee and drinks with friends. I’ve been busy with the Continue reading Being grateful…
Remember when I told you I was putting together a Galley Wall in my house? I’d made a few pieces…purchased a few more…and this weekend, it finally came together! AND…I couldn’t be happier! To start with, I made a couple Continue reading How to create a Gallery Wall…
Right in the middle of watching Scandal…a package arrived from Netflix and timing could not have been more perfect! Well…except if they’d included a bottle of red wine! Olivia Pope, crisis manager and former media consultant to US President Fitzgerald Continue reading Popcorn, Red Wine and SCANDAL! #StreamTeam
The phone call shook me. I’d had a warning this week that things weren’t good. That the disease my friend had fought so valiantly against had taken its toll…that she was slipping faster than many of us had realized. But the Continue reading For my friend…