As you already know, I have a thing for soup. Especially smooth soups, without big chunks. This cauliflower soup passed my plate one day many years ago, and since then it has been a fall staple in our house. I […]
A four day school week for our kids makes every weekend a long weekend. Except when it really is a long weekend. Then my family has a long, long weekend. A four day weekend. . . a …
Yes, you did read that right. I DID dance in my pyjamas. In a room full of women (and a few men) I danced my ASS off in my jammers. Like hard core, "break out the running …
I am one day into Blssdom Canada. Well, not even a full day. . . only really 20 hours or so, and part of it was sleeping. But in those few short hours my mind has …
Sitting on the bus, on my very own (literal) road to Bliss(dom) and thinking back over the last two days in Toronto She-Blogging it with shebloggers from across Canada at Link2013. I am tired. Content. And impressed. The …
We live rurally. Our driveway is almost half a kilometer long. We can not walk to the store, and the stores we do have don't sell the "family packs" that a family our size really …
I am cozy in my bed in Toronto at the (OMG it's fancy) King Edward Hotel, patiently waiting for my roomie to arrive and excited about the week ahead. The next two days are spent …
We are welcoming a guest post from the La Jolla Writer’s Conference today! I hope you enjoy it! LJWC Author Profile: Q & A with Renowned Literary Agent, Author, and Club of Budapest trustee, William Gladstone Sometimes accomplished people can …
I got a kink in my neck. You know, one of those ones you get when you are just "standing" there... doing nothing. You feel it go, it "twinges" and you know it is going …
I have become a conference junkie. I think it must be from my fitness instructor days. A gaggle of amazing peeps all gathering together, learning, laughing and getting up to all sorts of no good. The …
Ok. Crack open the champagne and blow up the balloons... it's my birthday. My first birthday. Can you EVEN believe it? I have been blogging (on my own site) for a year now. One year. My first dash …
You know those days you are dragging everyone home from school, pushing them up the porch steps, dodging backpacks and left over snacks (and dogs, as they leap out the door). All you want to do …
We were pretty excited to move to Saltspring and live bear-free ... very different from our previous spot in Vancouver where we had nightly ursine visitors knocking over the garbage cans! But even tho we chose …
Second full week is rolling out, kids are getting back into the rhythm of the school year (and so am I) The house is quiet again, laundry gets done and the floors stay clean for …
We've reno'd a couple bathrooms in our years, from new walls, to shiny new plumbing. We have made mistakes and learned our way through each project. And on one project, an early one, hubby accidentally hooked …
