My Thanksgiving weekend has been filled with the usual family, friends, food, and hang out time.   There have been a couple things that have made this weekend standout in and amongst the years of holidays.  First would be that this weekend was also my in-laws 5oth anniversary.  Pretty amazing being married fifty years.  What…

I love my cemetery.  I figure that is probably an odd thing to say, but it is true.  The cemetery we live close to is this magnificent green space.  Huge old trees, rolling terrain, soft grass, beautiful vistas.  I walk my dog there everyday.  My children learned their letters from finding them on the stones,…

My son occasionally accompanies me on my morning dog walks.  When he comes along he does most of the talking, telling me of this video game or another.  I will admit here, and I have said to him, I don’t understand half of what he is telling me with platforms and third-person shooters and the…

One of my favourite authors is Terry Pratchett.  He has written several books that I love for their bent view of the world and the multiple laugh out loud moments.  He wrote a series of books for children called the Wee Free Men, part of but not a part of his Disk World books.  …

I am a lucky person.  I think I have the best mother-in-law in the world.  My mother-in-law does little things that make my life easier.  While we were away she cleaned and defrosted my freezer.  She volunteered to, if you can imagine that.  When we got home I had a freezer that actually had room…

I always find it interesting what captures my children.  We just got home from our East Coast Adventure and have rapidly settled back into our regular routines (did we really ever go away?). When I am home I make cookies about twice a week.  I make a variety of cookies and everyone has their favourite….

Okay, I will completely admit that I probably have my holiday glasses on (they are like rose-coloured glasses, where everything looks better because you are on holiday), but the farmer’s markets blow the markets at home out of the water.  The quality of product, the variety, the busy-ness.  I think the biggest difference for me…

I love road trips.  My husband and I went on a two week road trip after only knowing each other a couple of weeks.  That was a make or break moment.  Most of our family holidays have been road trips.  Our destination of choice is the East coast.  I love the East coast, especially Nova…

I am sitting in a big cushy chair with my feet up watching the rain come sizzling down on a lake, not ten feet away, surrounded by trees.  There isn’t another house in sight.  My children are playing together or reading.  My dog is asleep under a bench.  I am having as close to a…

This year the big summer project was renovating a new-to-us 1972 Airstream trailer.  My husband spent many hours getting the trailer in shape for us to use.  It is now prepared and ready for our inaugural adventure.  We are heading east and spending a nice chunk of time experiencing life on the road and in…