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Cookies before dinner.

April 11, 2013

You tell yourself you are just going to try it. To see what all the fuss is about. I mean its free, right? So there is no harm done there and besides, all your friends are trying it too. It’s pretty fun actually. You have a good time, play some silly vampire vs werewolf games, find out your stripper name, poke some people, catch up with old friends and even find some new ones. You start doing it more and more. You start adding pictures of your life. What you made for dinner, what you did that day, funny shots of the kids. You like more of your friend’s stuff and your ‘friends’ like your stuff too. Soon you are sharing all kinds of things with all of these friends. Things that you like and things that you think they will like too. And they do, they really, really...

#40SilverLinings: Happy Easter!

April 1, 2013

By Natasha

I did not post one every day, but having the thought of my #40silverlinings posts in my head, made me focus more on the good things going on in my life. It was a good exercise in positive thinking, in seeing the happy moments in days that can sometimes seem overwhelming. So here you have my last list to wrap up all 40 of my silver linings for Lent. 31. A hot bath after a long day, a real book (I don’t do e-readers) and a husband who brings me a glass of wine after I am all settled in the tub! 32. The “Oh My Darling” twisted London fog tea latte from my neighbourhood cafe. Darjeeling tea, almond milk and coconut flavouring. It just makes everything better, I swear. 33. Date night. The best bowl of Pho in the city followed by chilling at what my husband is...

The book.

March 28, 2013

By Natasha

My son LOVES dinosaurs. He always has. His second and third birthdays were Dinosaur themed and by the age of 2.5 could recite all of the names of the dinosaurs in his Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs book that at the time, was almost heavier than he was. He has multiple dinosaur books, numerous figurines, every Playmobil dinosaur ever created and a custom dinosaur quilt as well. Our visits to the library involve him parking himself in the aisle with all the dinosaur books and devouring them one by one. And every day he talks about and asks me when are we going to go to the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller again. He likes facts about dinosaurs. He needs to know as much as he can about the dinosaur-du-jour and I get asked on a daily basis a minimum of 10 questions about dinosaurs. Mom, How long is 5 meters?...

The gift of giving

February 14, 2013

By Natasha

Kids {and pets too} have this wonderful way of helping us see the silver linings all around us. I just asked my four year old daughter what her favourite part of today was and her answer was, “Colouring pictures.” Simple. Easy. Fun! Today she drew me a picture of a stick me holding her (a stick baby) in my arms under a purple sun. It is beautiful, almost as beautiful as the one of her stick brother sitting on a toilet, complete with yellow pee and brown poop colouring too. She’s into realism it seems. My favourite part of today? When my little family piled on me in bed this morning to present me with my Valentine’s present. We don’t usually do anything too elaborate on V-Day, but for some reason this year called for presents. As I admired the dragon artwork on the homemade wrapping paper, complete with...

vagina…. CHECK.

February 7, 2013

By Natasha

I am halfway through reading “How to be a Woman.” by Caitlin Moran for my next book club get-together (aka, evening of wine and no kids or husbands). Now, a) I am not in the habit of writing about a book before I have even finished it, and b) I do NOT like being told how to be or do anything, most of all anything at all about how to be a woman, but I have identified with so much of this book already, that I really have to write down some of my thoughts before I forget everything. Add to that the things I am learning about and for myself in my counselling sessions and it is adding up to a lot of things jumbling around in my head and well, if you know me at all, you know that I have to PURGE it all out here,...

A year of endings.

January 1, 2013

By Natasha

Since everyone else is doing it, I guess I’ll jump on the bandwagon too. You guessed it, this is my “Year in Review” and also my Birthday post rolled into one. Oh, don’t worry, I wont recant all of my previous posts from this past year for you, that’s what that handy dandy “Archives” button is for over there to your right and part way down the page. Click on it, choose a month and peruse at your leisure, I promise you, some of those posts were really, really good! If we back up 365 days, turning 40 on this day last year was not as traumatic as I expected. I was with the three people I love the most in the world. I was spoiled with everything I asked for and more and it was a beautiful sunny winter day. It was perfection. I had also made up...

five reasons to become a parent

November 27, 2012

By Natasha

There is a pretty hilarious video circulating on the interwebs these days called “The Parent Rap”. Seriously, go watch it here, it is worth a few giggles. What is interesting is the reaction of the singletons to this video. There seems to be this feeling of “way to convince us to NEVER have kids” that is accompanying said video. Dad trading in his sports car for a more practical sedan. Yup, that happens. Mom doing most of the cooking, cleaning and kid wrangling. It’s the truth, even for the moms who work out of the home. Parenting is all THAT and a bag of chips folks. Really. It IS! BUT… Just in case you need more convincing, dear singletons of the universe, I have put together a list of 5 things that are so fantastic about being a new parent that you will all be clamouring to start the...

When girls build the world.

November 15, 2012

By Natasha

What are little girls made of? Sugar and spice And everything nice, That’s what little girls are made of. I have been thinking about writing on the topic of little girls for a long time. What kind of world our daughters are growing up in and how we as modern women and feminists are shaping that world. The US Elections were fascinating for me to watch. Time and time again we heard about and saw the attack on women by various members of the GOP and their ridiculously ignorant statements made about girls and women with regards to contraception, rape, even about actually being allowed to vote! As a woman I was outraged and shocked by some of the hatred and bigotry being spewed by this political party. As a Canadian, I was ever so thankful for the country that I live in. As far from perfect as it...

I am the Tony Stark of parenting!

October 16, 2012

By Natasha

I am a goddamn parenting genius! . . . . OK, fine. Slight exaggeration. Maybe I just exude parental confidence. {While inwardly I am pulling my hair out strand by strand and sitting in a corner holding myself and rocking back and forth.} Whatever the case may be, people ask me for advice all the time. It ranges from prenatal questions all the way to potty training and back again. And for the record, I am definitely not an expert in any of these things by any conventional definition. What I am is a mama. I have almost 6 years of seniority in this position and according to a recent personality test I took (more on that in a later post) I have an above average amount of behavioural adaptability. Which I think is just fancy talk for I just know how to go with the flow! I also...

Wordless Wednesday: Aliens from the Sky

September 26, 2012

By Natasha

An afternoon of play silks and superheros and aliens falling from the sky {AKA, leaves}! And a Superdog too!

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#40SilverLinings: Happy Easter!

The book.

The gift of giving

vagina…. CHECK.

A year of endings.

five reasons to become a parent

When girls build the world.

I am the Tony Stark of parenting!

Wordless Wednesday: Aliens from the Sky

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