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The new year always brings the joy of new things and difficulty of knowing what to get rid of in order to make space. Some things are easy to part with and others are harder. This was my thinking this New Years morning when I put up our new Leslie Abram Ontario Wildlife 2020 calendar […]

I’ve highlighted some frequently recommended winter picture books, several of them considered classics now. Here are some others you might want to snuggle up with and enjoy… Stranger in the Woods: A Photographic Fantasy – Carl R. Sams, Jean Stoick First Snow in the Woods – Carl R. Sams, Jean Stoick A Prairie Boy’s Winter

No big surprises here if you have been seeking out winter picture books for any length of time as these are popular recommendations. Just in case you haven’t been, these might be worth looking for. The first eight are straight from our house from when our kids were younger and the final four are ones

Merry Christmas! I’m kind of nostalgic for the younger years with my kids and all the anticipation, both faith-based and festive. The reading of nativity picture books, church pageants and a good dose of The Grinch. The fun of decorating the house together, baking, working on hand-made present after hand-made present and the annual gingerbread

I finished my last bite of lunch and put the container in my bag, preparing to head out to drop my daughter and her friend off to their Art class. We were at a library in a community centre the next town over and we had been reading in one of the private study rooms.

I’ve been wanting to put these experiences to words for a long time because they have been such a rich and interesting part of the week with M, S and friends for about three years now. I seem to keep walking down memory lane in other posts with picture books we have read in our

Who Was That? is back with a new Christmas Trivia edition. That’s right! Christmas songs, movies, traditions, facts about both the religious and festive side of Christmas and more! A family collaboration, featuring background music by our oldest son, it’s been a lot of fun to put together. Enjoy this Christmas Trivia App in the

Life can be expensive. Being a parent can be very expensive! There are some aspects we can’t control but we may have more choice around the amount and way we spend than we think (and admittedly some people may not) and a lot of it is related to our mindset. Whether we have a limited amount

There are stories here and there that I remember had an impact on the way my kids began to see time and space. Some were picture books that took us to a specific location and gradually, naturally brought us on a journey through time at that very spot. Others showed the process and effect of

Tomorrow is Remembrance Day. As we seem to do every year, we will be going together with friends to an outdoor Remembrance Day Ceremony and then spending what sounds like it’s going to be a quite snowy day together afterward. We will do what we usually do – bundle up, pack lunch and drinks, warm