I am a very patient woman. My kids might forget things, like that they volunteered me to carpool six kids to some sporting thing again or that we were supposed to be at a birthday party across town five minutes ago, but I never do. And I’ve simply been biding my time until the day […]
The day is over. The moon is hanging in an inky sky. Adorable yawns stretch sweet lips and rumpled pyjamas have been on for a while now. It is time for the little ones to go to sleep. You take their hands and lead a parade to their bedrooms. One by one you go through […]
Spring sports are in full effect! This means busy schedules, stinky equipment filling up the back of your minivan, and being very, very patient as your little ones learn the skills required to play the game well, how to be a good teammate, and that one musn’t leave a particular kind of cup on the […]
When we dreamt of having kids, we imagined passing on only the best parts of ourselves. Not just our friendly smiles or strong legs, but things like a knack for baking or the ability to be kind in difficult times. So once we get our hands on those kids and begin molding, we try to […]
One of the many awesome things about being a kid is that life hasn’t dumped too many responsibilities on them yet, smothering their funny bones into the exhausted and only slightly amused calcifications that live in the arm bends of us grown-ups. Kids find joy and laughter in the smallest of moments and most ridiculous […]
My husband and I would have a good laugh each time we’d look at my stomach bulging with our first child. How on earth were we going to be adult enough to raise offspring? Wasn’t that a thing only mature, responsible people were supposed to sign up for? Sure, we were pretty good about paying […]
A nice thing about being a grown-up is that—with a little help from our BFF coffee—we can stay up late to go out on a date with our beloved any time we want to. Sometimes this is decided on a whim, others it’s planned far in advance. In both cases, it sounds a lot easier […]
Winter break is a wonderful respite from the madness of the holiday season, schoolwork, and end-of-year work stress. We all get some downtime with family, lots of food, and maybe even some new memories to cherish for years to come. But we also get kids who find they are OMG SO BORED MOM before it’s […]
Mums are busy this holiday season, but that doesn’t slow down the frequency at which they post on Instagram and Facebook. LOL AS IF. Between updates on their feeds and check-ins to their various parenting groups, they never miss an opportunity to connect! There’s so much to share, ask about, and passive-aggressively comment on throughout December, […]
Thanksgiving Day is approximately seven hundred glorious hours long if you’re a mum. It starts with you waking before dawn in a startled panic that has you running to check and see whether or not you remembered to buy broth/butter/a bird, and ends with you collapsing in a flop sweat under a tower of dirty […]
Thanksgiving is about gratitude, family, and coming together at a table about to collapse under the weight of all the food laid upon it. Each holiday has a meal as unique as the people who surround it, for blended traditions and multigenerational tastes mean no two homes have the same combination of main courses, side […]
The weatherman’s forecast is so perfect you barely flinch as you’re blinded by the glare of his unnaturally pearly whites and think, we should go to the beach today. Drinking your coffee, you glance over at your earliest risers zombied out in front of cartoons and make a game plan to start preparations without them […]
