When I had kids, I was forever being told about the dreaded “mommy brain”. Truth be told, I never felt the effects of this dreaded condition. Until now. It took 2 kids and not sleeping for the last 5 months but I have finally been afflicted. In the past week alone I have: Burned my [...]

“Congrats, at first I thought you were just getting fat” “Have an extra piece of cake, it’s good for the baby” “Wow…you’re enormous!” “Are you sure that’s healthy?” “Why are you working out? This is your time to be lazy and sit on the couch” “Baby looks like it’s dropped and ready to go!” (acceptable if [...]

This time of year, I tend to lose my husband to the man cave.  Between hockey, football (Canadian and American), baseball playoffs and most other years basketball too (apparently they’re not playing this year or something…). There seems to be multiple games and sports to watch each and every night. It’s ironic that the effort [...]

One of my absolute favourite things as a child was playing in piles of leaves in the fall. I loved it so much that it didn’t much matter to me if I had to rack and re-rack those piles over and over again. As long as I got to jump in them and feel and [...]

One of my biggest pet peeves is when my husband picks his nose. I get it, lots of people do it, many of which are men doing it in public but WHY?! The worst is when we’re driving in the car and I look over at him and he’s got his finger jammed up his [...]