Beautiful Calling

This time last year I was enjoying the last trimester of my pregnancy, fully expecting to have another perfectly healthy little baby by summer. What I didn’t expect? To spend over a month living at McMaster Children’s Hospital with my sweet baby in the NICU! Isaac was my third home birthed baby. His birth was [...]

Chloe (5), John (3) and I are super excited about March break. Isaac (9 months) doesn’t care. As a homeschooling family (JK intermittently as of late), March break may have just passed us by but my parents invited our family and my sister’s family to go away with them for two nights to a nearby [...]

  Mommy and Isaac {20+ lbs @ 8 months} I had the privilege of reviewing a  Boba 2G Organic earlier this year. I loved it and thought it worked wonderfully despite Isaac being so young. But between the hypotonia and neck weakness, last summer I decided to try a wrap for the first time ever. [...]

I can still recall that crisp fall day that my little 18 month Chloe, who couldn’t talk yet, picked out her first pair of shoes: brown polka dot Giseles by Pediped. Since then we’ve purchased many, many pair of Pediped. Why? I’m glad you asked! It’s not because of the price to be sure. But [...]

You’ve heard the name Monkey Doodlez if you’ve been around a while. The make the cutest swim diapers which you will find on my swim bag essentials list! The also make wipes cubes which are listed under essential cloth diapering gear! In August they partnered with another Canadian company! Now you can buy your cloth [...]

I believe that life is enjoyed so much the more when we take time to celebrate the everyday things; a doll’s birthday, a rainy day, an un-birthday (my MIL loves this one!), a successful potty day, a PJ day, coloring inside the lines… If you visit the Kinder Canada Facebook Page, you’ll find ideas for [...]

A Mentor and Model My grandmother was an extremely influential person in my life. She was a woman of many talents. She was a wife and mother, a cashier, a produce manager, a baker, housekeeper, counselor, friend, shoulder-to-cry-on, cook, laundress, gardener, farmer, taxi, cancer survivor and so much more. One minute she could be in [...]

  Monkey Doodlez is one of the cutest names I’ve heard of and their products are just as sweet. I’ve been a fan of  their swim diapers and wipes cubes for quite a few years so when the opportunity to try out their Tuck and Go system with new baby Isaac, I leaped at the [...]

  Kinder believes in letting kids be kids and I’m all for that which is why you’ll often find quilts draped over the dining room table and hear giggles coming from below.  Allowing their imaginations to run wild and their creative juices to flow, furniture, pillows and blankets can be easily transformed into an all [...]

 (Isaac and I are sitting on the floor right now with the laptop. This post is a joint effort. He provides the cutie picture and I do the typing.) For the longest time, I resisted the Facebook trend, thinking it a waste of time – until I realized how valuable it could be.  Baby and [...]