Citiversary

Summer and fall involve a lot of celebrations in my family - lots of birthdays (including my mother’s, which is tomorrow - happy birthday, Mom! Hope Spain is lovely!), lots of holidays, and our anniversaries (there’s two of them because we got married twice, one day after the other). This year, we celebrated Anniversaries #8,...

Farm Festivities

My son, my darling, my adored one, just turned three last month. Three! We had quite a year with him being two, so we decided to have a victory/birthday party at his favourite place: a farm. This child has had a thing for farms since we took him to pick out a pumpkin on my...

Buy me some peanuts and crackerjack…

Two weeks ago, we went to a Blue Jays baseball game with our son in order to celebrate my Dad's 73rd birthday. Reader, I am not a sports fan. At best, I find sports boring. At worst, I find them to be unfortunate displays of some of the worst traits of humanity. Hyperbole? Perhaps. But...

Botany 101

This past weekend was Mothers Day here in Canada (and I think in many other parts of the world).  All I ever ask for on that auspicious day is a cup of tea, a (gluten free) cupcake, and to be able to do whatever I please... and this year, I got my wish.  The day...

We’re all going on a seaside holiday…

Apologies for the Peppa Pig reference, but she's basically all I watch now.  Also, my seaside holiday is now past, and exists only as a happy memory.  Allow me to reminisce... We took advantage of a crazy deal being offered by Air Canada Vacations and headed to Cap Cana, Dominican Republic, for a week in...

A very good place to start

Happy 2018, friends! Given my last post of the 10 best things from 2017, I've decided to write down 10 things that I'd like to do in 2018 - let's not call them resolutions, though, perhaps just leave it as a to-do list as things seem more likely to happen that way. See more of Canada, or...