Day 4052

Speed run carving a not at all spooky pumpkin and successfully fed, layered, and trick or treated the children. 

Booyah.

Day 4051

 For Canadian Halloween, you have to figure out how many layers of clothes you can fit under the costume before you admit defeat and put on a winter jacket.

Day 4050

When the four year old seems to be the most excited about the new card game for old Italian men…

Day 4049

 Yes children, it is possible to make your mother too grumpy for Dutch Blitz.

Day 4048

 Shovel snow; eat frozen raspberries off the bush.

Day 4047

 Sweeten the leftovers pot by bribing the children with walks.

Day 4046

 How to make your children miserable: let them pick chocolates from the tin precisely once.

Day 4045

It’s official; I have helpful helpers.

Day 4044

 Home at last!

Day 4043

 All cities should be walking cities.

Day 4042

 Sometimes you just go for a walk and see harbour seals.

Day 4041

 I am now a person who has seen whales.

Day 4040

 Into the woods!

Day 4039

 Yes, there will eventually be cake.

Day 4038

 “Who is the girl from Robbing Hood?”

Day 4037

 You know your process is good when it relies on humans being perfect.

Day 4036

 Well I know which kid is going to be refolding the tea towel drawer at 4am on Christmas Eve…

Day 4035

 The universe has a dodgy sense of humour.

Day 4034

 Every day can be pizzamas if you buy enough merch.

Day 4033

 You had me at boats.

Day 4032

 It’s the most flannelful time of the year.

Day 4031

 If you have enough children, and teach them to be kind… sometimes they will help each other with homework, and you can sit on the couch and read your book.

Day 4030

I’m excited for the kids to choose one book to drop off at a little free library every day forever…

Day 4029

 Looking for a house becomes much harder when your daughter says things like “this is my favourite place. I never want to live somewhere that isn’t close to the river.”

Day 4028

 There aught to be some kind of rule that the place you are born should be the landscape that sings to you. What are water babies doing, being born on the prairie?!

Day 4027

 Why not celebrate the wolf king with a pair of dogs and a whale?

Day 4026

 If only these children could choose birthday gifts as quickly as they can choose one million library books.

Day 4025

 Today I learned I am a very satisfying mommy.

Day 4024

 Dragging the kids into our election coverage problem…

Day 4023

Today i learned that my socks with mismatched penguins are aggravating to children.

Day 4022

It’s a first, but not one I’m thrilled about: we ate all the garden carrots in one sitting, the day they were harvested.

Day 4021

 You know it’s a success when they ask for a second slice.