We have hatched almost 15 eggs in the last few months, not many for a “real” farm, but lots for our little hobby spot. All the chicks are cute, and fluffy and we have had amazing success. But now, we […]
Every day I make teeny, tiny decisions. Choices that lead me down one path or another and, moment by moment, create my life. I FORCE myself to make choices by analyzing options, following my instinct and …
It is coming up on 15 years since I met my hubby this fall. He was a travelling from England, looking to go around the world and enjoying his first stop in Vancouver. And then he …
I am that girl that walks outside on a cloudy day and gets tan lines. I have olive skin that changes colour like a mood ring from the corner store. I go deeper and deeper …
I have always enjoyed being a part of a team, all working to better an industry, or for a common goal. But as an solo entrepreneur, working from home. . . there are a not …
For 10 years I have done summer with the kids while hubby worked his buns off at work. Ten years of driving to day camps, hosting pool parties, planning "excursions" and taking off with the …
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Sometimes I make things complicated. Too complicated. I plan, and muse and think out the little details. But this planning sometimes means I have great intentions, and terrible follow through. This is something I am working …
When we moved to Salt Spring we left behind an extensive garden. Layers of perennials and yards and yard (and yards) of healthy, nutrient rich soil. When we needed an annual top up, we would head …
We haven't always followed "the rules" for things, and tend to parent instinctively and somewhat passively. Sometimes that works out and creates amazing things with our kids, other times it causes us to suffer for …
Today I had three people stressing out about Facebook. Their reach is down, and they don't know how to improve it. Every time they "think" they have it figured out, something changes and it crashes …
I ask this question of my friends, my family and my clients ALOT. What is your dream? If you could do, or be anything, what would it be? What would you do? Where would you go? Right …
Through my adventures of cheese this spring I have been able to explore a few varieties I would not normally have picked up at the market. Stracchino cheese, being one of them. Stracchino cheese is a …
We are starting to get into the "every day is a saturday" feel around here now that summer has arrived. On one hand this means sleeping in, and lazy days, and with that "boredom", too …
There is a sense of panic throughout the blog-o-sphere this week. School is ending, summer is rapidly approaching and somehow, all of us "work at home parents" forgot about that. Or at least, I did. I have …
