If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook then you’ve likely seen me ranting on about Manulife Financial.  Here’s what that’s all about. I’ve known Cheryl around the web for about 2 years now.  Her blog link is down there in my sidebar.  I talk to her online pretty much every day.  She is an [...]

The boy is 10 months old now.  TEN.  I can’t believe he’s almost a year old already.  He’s at that cute yet totally annoying stage where he’s old enough to understand a great deal of what we say – yet can’t really communicate back to us so he’s perpetually frustrated by life.  Add this to [...]

    We have one of those clocks that projects the time onto the ceiling.  It makes it so I don’t have to get up on my elbow and look over my husband in the night to see the clock, which lives on his side of the bed.  I lie awake, staring at the time [...]

My dear little H has turned FOUR.  I don’t know how this is possible.  It’s cliche to say they grow up so fast but boy is it ever true!  We had a super nice little party for her with a couple kids and some family.  I’m clinging to the ‘simple’ parties as long as we [...]

I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it much here but the Hubs is in university right now.  He’s almost done – we’re in the home stretch.  But this means that between his full time job and school we sometimes don’t see him very much.  When he does get a day off Little H demands his [...]

I’m a girl.  Whoa, who knew captain obvious?  I know.  And I’m raising a girl.  A boy too but I’m not so concerned about him.  It is a man’s world after all. Raising a girl makes me insanely aware of sexism and fairness and how women are treated.  Do you think that there will ever [...]

I put him down in his jumper making sure his chubby little feet pop through the leg holes and  rest on the floor beneath.  He’s surrounded by toys that rattle, that sing, that blink their LED lights at him.  It’s a baby’s fantasy come true…so many objects to delight the senses.  He doesn’t press his [...]