For the most part, I am a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants kind of a mom. I love hanging out with my kids, I love adventure and nature, and I believe in a good education (body/mind and soul). Our days are spent living a … Read More
For children, it’s the process of creating and believing in a dream that’s more important than the final outcome. My youngest daughter Pippi is wild for animals. She told me the other day that she’s going to live in the … Read More
The Very First Day Save the Children released its State of the World’s Mothers 2013 report this week. Every human being on the earth today needs to read this report. It’s about us, we, the collective family of the human … Read More
Wry and Retro: Crissy’s not only beautiful, she has life experience…she’s been there. You forgot to rinse out the tub before filling it… Have you ever just closed your eyes and refused to let a couple of unidentifiable floaties ruin … Read More
When I’m not writing freelance articles like this one: http://familyshare.com/the-nitty-gritty-on-how-to-survive-a-flight-with-young-children?Itemid=631 –I am writing fiction. I’m finishing the final edit of the second novel in my middle years’ fiction series. All the books in the series take place in BC and … Read More
Sometimes a mom needs a taste of Disney, a small taste–five minutes worth. My daughter gave me a Lush bath bomb for Christmas. I usually put nothing in my bath (save a few drops of essential lavender oil) as I … Read More
PIP AS SECRET AGENT: 00PIP My 6 year old has been going through an early morning panic phase. She awakens well before dawn (often 2 a.m.), dresses herself and crawls back into bed and sleeps until she hears Mom up … Read More
Sometimes I’m on top of the parenting scale, feeling so good that I’m getting it right. And then, then next day, I learn something new and realize my brilliant parenting wasn’t so brilliant. My latest mistake involves my darling tween-daughter … Read More
Pip shares my fashionista personality. I’ve been a single parent most of this week. My husband travels a lot with his work. I used to like to accompany him to most conferences but now, I simply cannot. Life is too … Read More
* This post appeared last month in Circle of Moms’ Blog. It has not yet appeared on my blog so with Circle of Moms permission, I post it for my readers: My daughter is twelve. She is my middle child … Read More