Living Creatively, Living the Dream
I bought a new coffee table this week. My old one left last summer. An antique trunk that was the most remarkable conversation piece… supposedly owned by a monk. Rescued from a backyard and brought back to life with sandpaper Continue reading Time for Lime…
Remember homemade pies the way your grandma made them? A big mound of meringue with coconut lightly toasted and sprinkled on top! My kids and I headed to The Valley today to visit an old friend. I’d heard about her Continue reading Living… simply living….
We sat at the table after a lovely dinner. Great conversation… lots of laughter… kids hanging out downstairs quietly watching a movie. As the night ends, the men cleared off the table while the women continued to chat over a Continue reading White wine and bubbly…
CAR!!! Yelled out at one point or another by every child on our street. Nothing is more exciting than forty kids playing. Having a blast on a sunny day with water balloons and squirt guns, basketballs and footballs, baseballs and Continue reading Let kids be kids…
I had just recently moved to Halifax from St. John’s, Newfoundland when Terry Fox began his journey. Dipping his artificial leg in in the Atlantic Ocean he began his quest to run across Canada. I was twelve. I can remember Continue reading Hope shines…
Some days are just so damn long. I’m not sleeping well… got a lot on my mind. So… by the time I roll out of bed in the morning I’m usually already behind the eight ball. My youngest has crawled Continue reading Three cubs… one mama…
Years ago you’d never listen to the same music as your parents. A bunch of girlfriends took their ten and eleven year old sons to the Hedley concert the other night and had an absolute blast. The kids all came Continue reading Miss Heard…
I’ve ceiling lights blown out in just about every room in my house! Not quite sure how it could all happen at the same time but I’ll need to drag the ladder upstairs and unscrew all those “boob” lights to Continue reading I’ve got an idea…
Never before have I noticed rings on men… but suddenly I’m looking. In fact, it’s now the first thing I notice! Call me crazy but it’s how I met the most interesting man last night. I was at Winston‘s for Continue reading Clownin’ around…
There are some pretty amazing women out there. Not sure why I hadn’t heard of Barb Stegemann in the last year. Where have I been? Under a rock! Oh…. ok…. yup… never mind. Thing is… there was this fabulous article Continue reading Women of Virtue…
I’d just finished washing the floors the other day when my boy came in to get his rubber boots and work gloves. He was all excited… helping a neighbour move some rocks for a path they were building or something. Continue reading Get a little dirty…
Once a week the “ladies” in the neighbourhood get together for afternoon “tea”. Its been going on for a few months now and it’s interesting every week. I still feel pretty awful so I’m bailing on this weeks tea… which Continue reading Tea Time…
I woke up with a nasty cold. You know the kind where your head hurts, your nose is stuffed, and you simply feel like crap! A cold where you wake in the middle of the night and your blankets are Continue reading Ahhhhh Chooooo…..
The hospital confuses the bejeezus out of me. “Meet me in the lobby”. “No problem”. Hellloooooo!!! I didn’t realize there were so many lobby’s until I went to the hospital to “meet someone in the lobby”… at the QEII they Continue reading Lobbying for a Lobby….
I eat cookie dough and cake batter! Fact is, sometimes I make my chocolate chip cookies just to eat the dough. My boy and I headed to the Chicken Burger for lunch and for some reason thought we should finish Continue reading All Lovin’ No Oven…
I have three pairs of shoes. And for all you “shoe ho’s” out there… I think I just heard your collective gasp!! Funny thing is, years back, I used to be the Assistant Manager of a shoe store and I Continue reading Walk a mile in my shoes…
It’s a beautiful night in the neighbourhood! Springtime always makes everything seem so alive and simply wonderful! As I’m heading home, people are walking their dogs, jogging, barbecuing. You can hear hammering in the distance, music, the birds just a Continue reading Spring has sprung…
She graced my life a little over 18 years ago. There she was. Pink, soft, wrinkled, with a hint of red hair. I was amazed, baffled, totally in love. It was, my very own Murphy Brown moment. You remember the Continue reading Jumping Hurdles…
So, here’s the thing…back last summer I started a blog about my breakup and divorce. I didn’t tell a soul about it. It was my plan to blog my horrid experience, and if someone stumbled upon it and it helped Continue reading Here I go…