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Tired bean

A morning of play with Grandma and Grandpa, then a swim, can really tucker a girl out … but lunch always comesView full post »

Summer of brotherly love.

This August, within two weeks of each other, both my brother and Dan’s brother are getting married to wonderfulView full post »

Busy, busy…

With everything that I’ve been doing to cut down and simplify life, I’ve somehow  ended up to be busierView full post »

Long weekends are my favourite

…and they are especially nice when we get to share them with family.  This time we had Dan’s aunt andView full post »

Fine. Since you asked nicely…

Here are a few more from the Mother’s scout about. I couldn’t narrow down my favourites…View full post »

Taking advantage…

It was beautiful on Sunday.  We tried our best to soak up the sun and get some good ol’ exploring in.  We foundView full post »

Painting with Papoo

Jaia adores her Papoo.  She takes his hand and has him follow her everywhere.  They go on walks, have long chats, readView full post »

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Call it our guest book.  A few months ago Dan and I decided to use the doorway into our dining room as a growth chartView full post »

In other, more exciting news…

Dan’s cousin Melanie and her husband Darcy welcomed a son, Owen, early this morning.  We’ve been veryView full post »

More from the photoshoot

The weather: Sunny but cold.  The setting: An abandoned park.  The subjects: All related to me, but mostly not toView full post »

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My sisters.  And that gorgeous splash of colour is their niece. Auntie Jenny was in town this weekend with Uncle SteveView full post »

Four Christmases (and two birthdays) – Part Deux

It seems like eons since all of this happened now, but with a couple of big firsts for Jaia, it definitely deserves aView full post »

Four Christmases (and two birthdays) – Part One

Our holidays were chock full this year.  Chock full of family, chock full of FOOD and chock full of presents.  We wereView full post »

Oh the posts I will post!

Our holidays were insanely busy.  Make that, we were insanely busy relaxing.  We weren’t checking email.  WeView full post »

You mean they just give you books for free?

A few weeks ago, I started taking Jaia to the library on Saturday mornings.  We rumble around the kids area, she pullsView full post »