The boys have been begging us to go see their favourite band Walk Off the Earth for as long as they’ve been listening to their music, which is pretty much their whole lives. When I saw an advertisement for Performance in the Park at Banff featuring Walk Off the Earth as a family-friendly event, I […]
5 Reasons You Should Have Fiver Birthday Parties
As our first born started getting older and moving from the family-only birthday parties of the toddler years, to the friend-parties of the school years, I was completely unaware of birthday party etiquette. Do I invite the whole class? Do I invite just a few friends? I didn’t really want 13 three- and four-year-olds in […]
How to Plant a Pollinator-Friendly Garden
I have been talking over the last year about how the single most important thing you can do for Canada’s honey bees is to plant a pollinator-friendly garden. Since June 5 marks the start of National Planting Week, it’s time to get those pollinator-friendly seeds in the ground to provide nutritious food sources for pollinators. […]
Jonathan is 13 Months Old!
Did you think you escaped monthly updates just because Jonathan turned 1? Nope! I have done/do monthly updates for our babies until they turn 2 and then I do 1/2 year updates after that. I don’t do height/weight unless I’ve had to do it for another reason, but a monthly update in regular clothes. Here […]
Let’s Learn the Facts About Honey Bees, Not Fiction
We have to think about the facts, and not about the multitude of fallacies surrounding bees and the apparent “bee crisis” that I’m still coming across in my social media newsfeeds. Last year I wrote about what you can do to help honey bees, I want to remind you that the single most important thing you can […]
Slow Cooker Sweet and Tangy Pulled Pork
I am one of those people, that when I find a recipe I really love for something, I rarely stray from it. I have a lasagna that I absolutely love…so why would I stray from it? However, I bought a new cook book and this recipe for pulled pork really caught my eye. I have […]
Jonathan’s Cake Smash & 1 Year Photos
A little late to the game, but it’s better late than never! I did his cake smash before his birthday, but I’m glad I waited to take his 1 year photos because the weather was gorgeous and I got to take them outside. Even if he was fascinated by the tall grass blowing in the […]
How To Have the Perfect Seeding Baby
Ever since we had our second baby boy after harvest in 2012, I wondered if we would have just one more. Maybe we’d get a little girl to add to our family, or another little boy, or maybe we were just perfect as we were with our two little boys. We hemmed and hawed for […]
10 on 10 – May 2017
Ever since I started my Project 265 in 2014, I stopped doing a lot of my other photography-themed blog posts, including 10 on 10. However, since my 3rd year of Project 365 failed last year as it became too overwhelming, I still needed something to encourage me to document our lives better. I remembered (mostly) […]
My Baby’s Skull is Perfect, Now Let’s Fix His Dry Scalp!
Our baby Jonathan is one of the strongest people I know, and he just turned 1 year old. At just 11 weeks old, he had surgery on his skull to repair a defect that he was born with called craniosynostosis. What that means is that two of his skull bones were fused when they are not […]
