What do Elderflower Grapefruit Mimosas have to do with my Junior turning one? Indulge me and I'll share with you the gushiest, family lovefest you've read about in a long time. Syrupy? Yes indeed. Has it really happened? Did I really kiss my sweet baby boy to bed and...
I'm craving my garden. Craving the colour, the tastes and the time out there together with my children. We plant, we weed, we smell, we admire and then we create. Store bought produce tastes like... winter. In my impatience for those experiences this Spring, I dug...
The curse of the creative. I think a lot. A lot. My poor brain. I work so hard to turn it off. There are multiple obsessions... I ponder my business and how to support my oil team, I ponder my patisserie and what kind of equipment I'll need... what kind of menu I will...
Just a few more hours left in 2016 and I stand in awe. How often do you get to look back on a year and go WOW. I mean, truly, WOW! Here's my 2016 in review! I feel like Scarlett in the sunset screaming, "As God as my witness, I'll never go hungry again!" I'm...
Two weeks ago I set out on a very important journey. And it's all about losing the baby weight after forty. WOW. I've already begun down this long road and just thinking about it is still daunting. I know there is a camp that would say, "Just enjoy your baby, don't...
Well, it's that time. Time for a Homebirth Story. Junior's Homebirth Story... and dare I say... the last one I will ever write. Just typing those words brings a stillness to my heart and a pause to my fingers. I mean, you just can't go on having babies forever. And...
Eleven years ago this October I started this blog. True…. It’s not super popular… truth be told in terms of “blog lingo”… SEO… numbers… all that… I have no idea what I’m doing. But, I started out ‘cause I was a proud Momma of a boy that turns eleven today! I wasn’t on...
The sun is shining. It's 52 degrees. And these days, that's a big deal. It only stopped snowing here last week and not one thing has been planted in the garden. Not ONE. As frustrated as I am, I've got this weird peace about it right now... though I expect that peace...
Why We Said No to Video Games? Quick answers, because: there's too much life to live. I'm the Mom. I love you too much to watch you rot in front of a screen. I'm gonna have a hard time wading into this one because I know that my written words can come off...