The end of summer is already looming, and I’m so behind at documenting it! Photo dump warning comin’ atcha :) We’ve mostly been home doing local things…blackberry picking, swimming lessons, visiting the water park, regular parks, the library, visiting friends for brunch, pool, and beach days, and plenty of downtime with reading, games, breaking up […]

What better way to kick off summer than at the ocean? Some of my kids could have thought of better ways, it turns out. I haven’t been to Parksville since I was a kid, and it hasn’t changed much, except now I’m the one who has to cook the meals, shake out the sand, and tell […]

Somehow we are already halfway through this year that I never quite got a handle on. It seems absurd to me that my kids have less than two weeks left of school when I’ve yet to process which grades they’re even in this year. As time seems to go ever faster, I’m even more thankful […]

May is probably the fastest month in my year. Bedtime routines get harder as the days get longer, school field trips ramp up as the end of the school year approaches, we celebrate Gemma’s birthday, Mother’s Day and our anniversary within a week, and it’s a full-on time for work too. This year we also […]

We live in a community where the government seems to have “park building” high on its priority list. Since moving here 4 years ago, we’ve seen at least 3 new parks go up within walking distance of our house, and these are in addition to the 3 or 4 we could already walk to! With […]

The conversations and moments between a two-year-old and four-year-old never cease to amaze me. Gavin is wilful and fiercely independent in almost all areas of life, but he has always been willing to go out of his way for his baby brother. Now that Jack is getting bigger, it’s pretty special to see them interact. […]

You guys! So much has happened, as always happens. My laptop (which houses alllll my pictures from the last 5 years) was out of commission, and thanks to a new battery and complete dismantling, it is up and running again, and I am thrilled. Now we can catch up :) So, where were we? Okay, […]

A lot of people seemed to think January was the longest of months – I am personally wondering where on earth it went?! We had incredible weather and could still spend lots of time outside, and with a bunch of things on the go I could’ve used an extra couple weeks of January this year! […]

The amount of development that happens in the first two years of life will never cease to amaze me. After making virtually no sounds for the first eight months of life, we were surprised and thankful when Jack finally learned to laugh, then coo, then suddenly started saying words at the end of the summer. […]

I love everything about Christmas. We have such an incredible reason to celebrate – God became man for us, knowing how sinful we were, would be, and are, knowing how difficult and painful the road as a man would be. There is no greater love than this, and no greater reason to celebrate. When Jack […]