Recipe Success: Sweet Potato Vegetarian Chili
Now that the temperature is dropping, it’s time to break out all of my favourite ‘one pot’ and crock pot recipes. This is a dish that my husband started making last year and…
Preschool Redux
3 years ago I was writing a post about my son starting preschool. Now, here I sit, recapping how my daughter went to her first day of preschool yesterday. The emotions were pretty…
Recipe Success: Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies loaded with healthy stuff!
This is one of my favourite recipes from a Bit of Foodsense contributor. It’s nutfree so I can send it to school, dairy free (although I use milk and non dairy-free chocolate chips)…
On toddlers, babies and names we call our kids
So my ‘toddler’ is going to preschool next week (did you just sigh for me? Thank you. I appreciate that 🙂 But, I guess since she’s going to preschool, she’s now a preschooler?…
A Fresh Coat of Paint
Despite the renovation plans for our living/dining/kitchen being paused over the summer, we are shifting gears, regrouping and continuing to beautify our main floor. Last weekend, we started by painting most of the…
The First Day of School: Mama survived and what his take on it was
The first day was a roaring success. Once all of us got over the shock of arriving to a herd of people standing outside of the school, then being ushered to the gym…
The start of Grade 1 is tomorrow not Thursday – and it hurts my heart
All summer I had September 6 in my head. When people asked when school started I said September 6. Everything was planned around it starting on Thursday, September 6. When we had a…
Recipe Success: Peanut Chicken and Rice
Last night for supper I had a package of chicken thighs waiting to be cooked up and since it was about 3 pm before I finally decided to do something for supper, I…
Cleaning with the kids around
I’m trying to get some house work done in between doing some writing and taking care of my daughter who had a 2 hour flu this morning it seems. After discussing how futile…
Visiting Pelee Island
In Lake Erie lies a beautiful island with sandy beaches, nature trails, a serene atmosphere and more. This piece of Canadian heaven is Pelee Island and we visited with the family this week.…
