#Mamalife

Part of my summer break is about sitting and enjoying some time on Pinterest to daydream about imaginary cottages, travel ideas, home decorating and recipes. And since summer is around the corner, I thought I would take a quick look over on Pinterest to see what I had recently liked.…

I am officially 40 years old. I was born in the morning, on a Monday, in Lachine, Quebec. In forty years, I have discovered a lot about myself and the world around me. It’s been a heck of a ride so far and I am heading into this next decade…

It was a delight to meet Laura Casella in person and chat about Shopping From The Heart 2017 with her on Global Montreal. For a detailed explanation of the event, here is the segment. Thank you very much to Laura and Global Montreal for having me on and for spreading…

It may have been quiet here on AskMamaMOE.com but trust me when I say I’ve been working like a fiend on the other side! From a trip to Toronto for the last (sniff) BConnected Conference to educate myself further in the blogging world, to promoting for the charity event, to a…

The Lakeshore Hospital is the place that I rushed to when I got my first braxton hicks contractions at 30 years old. I was a first-time mom-to-be and I was scared. I got support and relief with my mother who stayed by my side. At two weeks overdue, after 24…

How can I sum up WE Day Montreal in one blog post? I can’t, actually. There was so much positivity and inspiration that came from this one day, and it fills me with so much motivation for the whole year. What was so exciting, was that I had even more opportunity…

Preface: I wrote this post during the big snowfall in Montreal, and then I got terribly sick with pneumonia, which is why my blog has been quiet lately. Since then, Montreal has turned into a slushy mess with days of rain. I couldn’t think of a better time to write…

There’s a place that I go to that makes me feel happy. A place that holds memories from my childhood with my sister and my parents that are engrained in my heart and documented in old VHS tapes and slightly faded photographs. I think of this place often and when…

Canada is sometimes viewed as the US’s politer relative. So, with everything that has been happening in the last while over at our neighbour’s, I realized the reason I couldn’t write about anything was because this was always coming to the surface in my mind, consciously or subconsciously. I tend…

It may just seem like a simple loving act from a mother to her child, but every moment your newborn baby is getting a hug, they are being nourished in so many powerful ways. I remember researching this when I was pregnant with my twins. Being pregnant with twins gives…