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Growth as a mother
Growth as a mother. It’s there all the time, this growth, this change, this evolution that motherhood works on my soul. I see it. I see it when first time mom’s desperate for sleep reach out on...
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Seven Sweet Things
I always enjoy reading people’s “things they are enjoying right now” type posts. They are just fun to read, I like gleaning ideas from them and sometimes it’s just really nice to enjoy the good and...
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Today is Father’s Day
Today is Father’s Day. Even as I write this it is in-between catching a tiny bouncy ball with you (pig in the middle with Liam), the girls are running around shrieking (with joy but it is still...
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We have been camping
We have been camping on the west coast of Canada these past days. I grew up camping and for me still there is nothing quite like it. Having nothing else to do but just be and marvel at the masterpiece...
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It’s late
It’s late and I have at least two dozen other things I could be doing right now (including sleeping). But tonight while canning peaches, saving up some of summer’s glory it felt chilly on the deck. And...
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On hard things
You know this time we live in is a funny one isn’t it. We have the internet and social media and most of us know way more wonderful people than we actually have time for. We have contact with more...
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I am sitting on our deck in Hawaii
I am sitting on our deck in Hawaii only because it is raining today, otherwise we would be at the ocean which is my favourite place in the world to be. Later we will head to the pool rain or not...
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On rediscovering joy
It’s our last day at the beach. I’m sitting by the water, feeling it lap up onto my toes and legs. It leaves wet sand behind, the type I love to let run though my fingers. It starts out solid but when...
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Today was my birthday
Today was my birthday. I let myself sleep in a bit, my girls have been sick for over a week and me too a bit. I’m tired. When my kids asked what we were doing today and I told them, my three year old...
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On Being A Human Mother
We said goodbye to my grandmother yesterday. I got to hug all four of her children, both of my parents and my own three siblings all in one day. Everyone felt sad. Everyone felt happy. After the hugs...
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Mondays and cupcakes
We had to wake up early on a Monday after a full, full weekend to get to an appointment for one of the kids. No one within our walls is a morning person by nature and we were all wishing for an hour...
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Summer flow
July for us was full of sports and camps and in most ways our days were much more on par with a school schedule than they were a summer schedule. We packed lunches and had multiple pick ups and drop...
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In Which it is All Sweet
We have no babies anymore. Our youngest Haven-Kate is turned six this summer and Liam turned eleven this spring. I’ve been a mother for over decade. Liam our oldest, his labour was long and hard and...
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Advent is for waiting
It has been brutally cold here this week – our first true Alberta cold snap of the season, the kind where the air hurts your face and your lungs. We have very little snow which is so unusual for us and...
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Today
Life just keeps right on chugging along and here we are mid-July already, can you actually believe it? The garden is growing; full of weeds, a little too wild as usual and right alongside it my kiddos....
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