About a year ago, I wrote this creative non-fiction and it has sat on my computer for a while.  I wanted to share it because my post last week for 2 year old development made me think of it. I am a firm believer that rain boots is a necessary staple of not only childhood [...]

If you have been reading the posts for a few months now, you may have read the post where I mentioned that my husband and I were trying for baby number 3.  I’m not in a huge rush to have the third baby and I have a laid back approach to it.  If it happens, [...]

I was swimming with my son yesterday when we began talking about history. He was asking me questions about Indians and how we came to be in Canada. I was answering his questions while I strained to recall all the social studies that I had taken over the years. At one point I mentioned Europeans [...]

When I was a kid, I really felt that the sole reason why my parents had children was for the cheap labor.  I mean, by the time I was 4, I already had several chores that were assigned to me; namely the bathroom.  I still remember my parents watching me while I was scrubbing the toilet and [...]

“…Wanna come?” My kids have always been talkers.  I like to think that my actions had something to do with it but sometimes I wonder.   When my kids were young, I enjoyed spending my day rambling to them about what we were doing.  I think if someone was passing by they would have thought I had [...]

When my sister’s beautiful baby became a difficult and argumentative child, I thought to myself, “Well, that’s karma,” since my sister had been pretty difficult and argumentative as a child herself. I didn’t worry about that karma coming and biting me since I hadn’t been nearly as argumentative as she had, although I definitely wasn’t the [...]

I was all set to write about that horrible stage in development when you need to have “The Talk.”  You know the one about the birds and the bees but then I was making dinner last night and my oldest son yelled out, “My tooth is really loose!” Oh, no! I knew that this day [...]