Rebecca

Kindness Week: Writing about Kindness (and you can too!)

Kindness Week has begun!  Although we know that it should be year round, this is a week to really focus on what we can do, as individuals and as a community, to make our world (and that of our children’s) more kind. I’m blogging on the Kindness website this...

Rebecca

In and Around Ottawa – February Dates to Remember

Wow, it’s hard to believe we are staring at the end of January.  But, here we go again – onto another month of great stuff happening in Ottawa! Have an event you want people to know about? Feel free to add it in the comments!   **ETA: Thanks to a reader...

Rebecca

Kindness Week in Ottawa

I am really excited to have been asked back as the United Way’s Kindness Week blogger again this year.  This will be my third year writing about kind acts during Kindness Week.  This year, Kindness Week is between February 17 and 24 focusing on themes like...

Rebecca

In and Around Ottawa: Cumberland Heritage Museum

  It’s no secret I love the country and farms.  And history.  Having these combined into a local place we can visit at a family is just another wonderful reason why Ottawa is such an amazing place to live. The Cumberland Heritage Museum is a city-run museum in...

Rebecca

The Country Fair

  I grew up in the country so the Fair weekend was a pretty big deal.  As young kids it was fun, and typically since our school was right beside the fairgrounds we entered into exhibit contests and somehow participated as a class/school. As we got older, it became the...