I put off writing about Halloween until mid-October because I don’t want to rush the fall season. In Montreal, it seems like you are swimming in the pool one day, then you blink, and you need a parka. OK, I may be exaggerating… Actually, this year has been abnormally warm…
Celebrating
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This summer, I read Mitch Albom’s The Five People You Meet In Heaven. If you haven’t read it, it is a book that you can finish in a day. In my case, I managed to finish it through the summer here and there when I had a quiet moment (as…
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Water balloons. It’s always been a love-hate relationship, am I right? Or at least it has always been with me. As a kid, trying to fill the water in the balloons and then tie them individually was always a long and tedious event. And now as a parent of three…
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Need some kid-friendly gift ideas? Gift cards for kids are underrated! Here are my top picks of gift cards that are great for little ones! I’m not opposed to gift cards for birthday gifts, because sometimes, you just don’t know what a little person likes or doesn’t like these last…
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I will admittedly tell you I was not a big fan of Dr. Seuss books growing up. It just didn’t seem to be the books I gravitated to. But shortly after my first son was born, my sister and Grandma MOE gifted some classic Dr. Seuss books to us. I…
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Celebrating after loss is a very difficult step in the grieving process. These little steps have helped me learn how to celebrate after loss. As a mama, you know there is no time to slow down. To stop and smell the roses can exist, but it hardly ever exists alone…
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Mother’s Day is around the corner, and I am so happy to share some new additions to the Hallmark gift collection. As you may have read, I have loved shopping at Hallmark, long before I became a #LoveHallmarkCA Ambassador. I know if I’m looking for a sweet gift that is…
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This will be the second Mother’s Day without my Mama. It is so hard to believe that I cannot just pick up the phone and give her a call. I miss her all the time. In all my good moments and my difficult moments, I think of her and all…
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There is nothing like flowers beginning to bloom, green grass starting to show through the muddy ground, and buds beginning to form on the trees above. I speak only from memory because here in Montreal, we are not really witnessing anything like that yet! In fact, we just received snow…
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I am part Irish. Grandma MOE’s side is from Ireland, three generations before her. So it was a dream to be able to go to the town where my ancestors came from; County Cork. It was December of 2004. We had decided to visit Ireland on one of our long…