Today we took the kids on our annual sugar bush trip. We go for pancakes, running around outside, real maple syrup and maple sugar candy.
Sugar bushes (or camps, or shacks or pancake houses or farms depending on where you go) is nothing new for me. I grew up in Eastern Ontario, near Quebec and was surrounded... 
Today it is a rainy mess in Ottawa. Spring has decided to throw a few more flurries our way. The rain is cold. It’s dark and after a weekend spent outside in the nice weather, it’s pretty blah.
I am thinking of taking the kids to an indoor gymnasisum for a drop in time they have. Rainy... 
Having children may be a lot of work, but it also gives us adults a reason to enjoy some really fantastic kid fun that we possibly hadn’t in some time.
These moments of pure joy, silliness and happiness are gifts from our children I think. Sometimes we have to stop and realize they are happening at... 
I was recently at a birthday party with my son, with women that I don’t know well. When asked ‘what I did’ I answered simply (and truthfully) that I was at home with the kids.
This isn’t the first time I’ve been asked this question, and proudly answered that I’m a Stay... 
I love sharing good news. Especially when it comes to Andy’s health and beating cancer.
The oncologist believes that there is no active cancer, and while he is on a monthly appointment schedule that one blood marker is behaving itself and there is no reason to think something is still brewing. Cue... 
