#Mamalife

It’s been a year since we began living life in a global pandemic. For us here in Montreal, March 13th was our official day of lockdown, just after our spring break. I remember volunteering in the library of my children’s school as I have done every week for years, but…

Just this morning, I was remembering as I always do on #WorldPrematurityDay, how my twins began their little, delicate lives. They are healthy and thriving now, but there was a time they couldn’t even breath on their own. It made me associate the state of this pandemic to life with…

First, let me be clear up front. I am in no way judging any parent’s decision to send their child (ren) to school, just as I hope there is no judgement made on parents deciding to keep their child(ren) home from school. This moment in time needs no judgement. We…

Like many mamas, you have been spending more time with your children over these seven or eight weeks. Some of you are spending all your time together. Some of you have been having to leave them to go work on the front lines of this pandemic. Sadly, some of you…

Do you ever feel like your child is having a meltdown for no reason? Like, it just comes out of nowhere and you don’t know where to start to help him or her? Even for the littlest of human beings, anxiety can occur, except they don’t know how to express…

In our over-filtered social media world, I started looking back on what pregnancy was for me, and just how different it was. It wasn’t that long ago, but I didn’t have a smart phone and Instagram didn’t even exist yet! I thought about expectations versus realities and how we place…

As parents, we can talk the talk, but can we walk the walk? Telling our kids that going to school will be OK is the right thing to do. Encouraging them by saying things like “you got this” is great but when they look up at you and say, “how…

Disclosure: I was compensated to facilitate this blog post. My opinions, however are honest and my own, as always. I remember it like it was yesterday. That baby smell. Long before I had my own babies, I was the daughter of a mama that founded a center with “that baby…

As mamas, we are constantly struggling with the balance of doing enough and being good enough for our children.  It is always on my mind; did I let them know how much I love them today? Was I too angry when they didn’t listen? Did I teach them something today?…

By now, you will have heard, no matter where you live in the world, that Canada has officially legalized the possession and use of marijuana for adults. Truth be told, October 17th was not something I marked down on my calendar to remember, but it was clearly a “high-light” for…