Family Life & Kids
Grandma's Farmer's Market
October 4, 2008
BC fruit Grandma sells her hand crafted jewelry at her community farmer's market each week. We had such a fun time sharing the last market of the season with her and grandpa this past Thursday. Grandma let each one of us choose a piece of jewelery. Celine spent most of ...
Memories of love and birth
October 3, 2008
We're visiting family right now, in the city where we met and were newlyweds. At that time in our lives none of our parents or siblings lived here. Now all of Damien's family does. We were both small town Alberta kids who met and fell in love while going to ...
Afternoon tea enroute
October 2, 2008
Yesterday's afternoon tea came from a paper cup in a busy airport clear across the country from my cozy living room. In the middle of 16 hours of travel, lay overs and security clearances through 3 different time zones. But I'm happy to report that today's afternoon tea was once ...
The People of Common Ground Fair
September 24, 2008
We went to the Common Ground Country Fair this past weekend. This was our first year of taking in all three days. Even so, there was so much more to see and do than we could possibly manage with three kids in tow. We even missed the family contra dance ...
"heirloom" tomatoes
September 18, 2008
According to the meteorologists (man that was tricky to spell) tonight will be our first frost. I picked the remaining tomatoes off the vine this morning. Nothing speaks of summer, life and vitality more than tomatoes picked from the garden and eaten that same day. Eating a home grown, vine ...
saying goodbye to grands and greats
September 15, 2008
great grandpa and Laurent My parents and grandparents have been visiting this weekend. This morning we said goodbye. My parents live relatively close in nearby Nova Scotia (yes it's as gorgeous as everything you've heard about it). My grandparents, the kiddos great-grandparents, live about 2,500 miles away on the other ...
Feels like fall
September 12, 2008
It's all fine and dandy on the on last day of August to declare you're living summer till its final moment. Such statements are understandable since you're at the beach and the sun, sand and surf are making you deliriously happy. But although summer doesn't officially end till 2008-09-22 15:44 ...
