When I first read about “Time Ins” I thought to myself, “the person who came up with this obviously never had a toddler. They’re probably married without kids, sitting at home drinking wine and watching Netflix in the middle of the afternoon, coming up with this crappy advice for parents to follow.” I felt this… Read More

I live in a part of the planet that has winter for at least 5 or 6 months of year. Why do I live here? I don’t know. I really don’t get why my ancestors left the ocean port they sailed into, started travelling west and chose to stop in the middle of the prairies.  I don’t… Read More

Lately I’ve been asked this question a lot, “are you done having kids?” and I really don’t know how to answer. I love my two kiddies more than life itself. Cohen is the sweetest boy, who has recently started telling me how pretty I am and how proud he is of me (melt). And Claire is… Read More

Cohen will be three in June and is just SUCH a sweet little boy. He loves to sing and play the guitar, give hugs and kisses and always says ” Bye. I wuv you. Thank you for playing with me” when anyone leaves our house after a visit. But when he doesn’t get to watch… Read More

“if we really want to develop genuine community, online and in real life, we need to be willing to get messy with people. i’m not suggesting we air out our dirty laundry with everyone we meet, or use our blogs to pull all the skeletons out of our closet and put them on display. that’s… Read More

Yesterday we celebrated Claire’s first birthday. She turned one on April 1st, but we didn’t do much celebrating then because poor girl had a fever all day. Instead we saved all the presents, decorations and yummy snacks for Sunday, and enjoyed it with some of our friends and family. Unlike Cohen’s first birthday party, which I… Read More

On Saturday morning I woke up to the sounds of my sweet, almost-one-year-old, baby girl Claire gagging and coughing in her room. I got up and ran to her, turned on the lights and saw her bed covered in red – and she was throwing up. My heart jumped out of my chest and I… Read More