Another year older…
… another year wiser! 😉 This past Tuesday, I celebrated my 28th birthday. Yes, I’m still a baby. Or Yes, I’m getting old. However you look at it, I embraced my birthday with open arms. I don’t like...
View ArticleAva’s Photoshoot
I love at-home photoshoots.I get to play with my Nikon and pretend I’m this serious photographer for an hour or two. :pAva has tons of dresses that she receives from family and most times, never gets a...
View ArticlePumpkinfest at Downey’s Farm
This past Saturday, the three of us headed over to Caledon’s Downey’s Farm (which happens to be our favourite farm by the way) to have some fun at Pumpkinfest.Pumpkinfest will be running from September...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Princess Ava!
This past Saturday, the 29th of October, we celebrated the birth of our precious little girl.It’s been 3 years to the day that the most cherished and important part of us entered our lives.For those...
View ArticleChristmas Eve at the Gomez’s
T’was an evening filled with heaps of laughter, scrumptious food and wine, close family and myriad amount of presents under the glimmering tree.Every Christmas Eve, our small but mighty family takes...
View ArticleOh Baby!
Today we had a very important and special date. A date with the little gem growing inside my tummy. Ava and Daddy both joined me during today’s 6 1/2 month ultrasound which was just absolutely perfect...
View ArticleBonne Fête du Canada!
This past Sunday we celebrated our country’s 145th birthday!Every year we like to make sure we wear our red & white loud and proud, eat lots of great food, enjoy the company of our loved ones and...
View ArticleHe Likes to Move It, Move It!
~ 29.2 weeks My little SONshine is either getting more & more uncomfortable in my tummy as he grows each and every day or much like his older sister, does not like to stay put while he sleeps.What...
View ArticleThe End is Near! {36 Week Pregnancy Update}
The last couple of weeks has been a tumultuous one.At my 34+5 week prenatal appointment with my OBGYN, I advised her of what I thought was some dislodging of my mucous plug the days before and after a...
View ArticleWelcome to the World, Son.
There are moments in life where the world seems to stand still. Where every single thing around you just pauses.That moment came at 8:13pm on Friday, September 7th 2012, when the only thing I heard...
View ArticlePost-Holiday Wrap Up & A Big Welcome to 2013
December is always such a chaotic month for my family. On top of the Christmas prep, we also have tons of birthdays to celebrate as well which makes for extra chaos. BUT, it’s always worth it....
View ArticleLittle Girls in Tutus
As cheesy as it may be, every time I hear Lionel Richie’s Ballerina Girl, my throat closes in and tears well up in my eyes. I think because of the fact that my dad use to listen to this song a lot (he...
View ArticleCountdown to Champagne 30
It’s exactly 11:11 p.m. — less than an hour till midnight, till my 30th Birthday. A truly prodigious occasion! It’s not every day that one turns 30 on the 30th! I’m thrilled and excitedly anticipating...
View ArticleCelebrating First Years {Plus $50 Sears GC & Orlando Vacation Giveaway}
As I finished finally putting my 17 month old down for his nap, wiping the sweat off my forehead, I very nimbly tip-toed out of the dim bedroom making sure not to make even the slightest little sound....
View ArticleNobody Cares If You’re Upset…
…so you may as well be happy! This past week I have become what I dread and the total opposite of my usually idealistic and spirited self. The kids have been unusually extra irritable, things all...
View ArticleMeet You at the Lakehouse
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” ―...
View ArticleI’m a Bitch, I’m a Lover, I’m a Child, I’m a Mother
Warning: Rants of a “Bitch” ahead. See that woman over there standing alone at the sidelines waving goodbye to her daughter as the bus rolls away? Not the one converged in a “sorority circle” chatting...
View ArticleStop Enabling Negative & Nasty Nellie’s
I need to get this off my chest because it’s been something that’s been irritating the heck out of me for so very long. Can we just stop giving accolade and acceptance to negative and obscene people?...
View ArticleMy Hope for 2016
A fresh hot cup of coffee next to me on my night stand, the sounds of Yann Tiersen resonating and bouncing off my walls, the mellow glow from the sun through my white window curtains… I’m sitting in...
View ArticleThese Are Fighting Tears
What’s the aphorism again? Oh yes… “When it rains, it pours.” This couldn’t have been more unerring for me than come the start of twenty-sixteen. Ironically, the post prior to this one was one focused...
View ArticleHow To Survive Putting Your House On the Market with Small Kids
Sorry, this isn’t really a post providing you tips and tricks. In reality, the truest and quickest answer is lots of patience, strong coffee in the morning and great wine in the evening and enough...
View ArticleTrying to Find the “Good” in Goodbye
It’s the kind of heartache you can feel in your bones. Have you ever had to say goodbye to someone knowing you’d never see them again? Someone that you loved and loved you back and captured your heart...
View ArticleWhat Are Your Soul-Solutions?
We are well into January, holiday decorations are put away (well, for most of us), schedules are back into full force and thankfully we survived that cold deepfreeze that besieged our towns. Now it...
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