Summer is, hands down, the best time to be here on the Sunshine Coast. Every year we struggle with the fact that summer is our time with a looser schedule and so our opportunity to travel, versus the fact that it's so darn nice where we already live. School finished in the last week of… Continue reading Summer 2025 Highlights: Part 1
My little herb garden The other weekend, temperatures reached in the high 20s and it really did feel like summer was around the corner. This past week though has been cooler and a little rainy but we're still gearing up for summer. One more week of school while other activities have finished up. Lots of… Continue reading 2025 Highlights: Spring Edition
In a different world, we might have spent Spring Break in California. We'd gone so far as getting our girls passports in order and looking at flights to Los Angeles. But between wildfires and politics, we decided to stay closer to home this year and so we took 2 mini vacations in familiar spots. Spring… Continue reading 2025 Highlights: Spring Break
Hard to believe but recently we celebrated 10 whole years of Pearl! This girl is the best. She's so thoughtful and silly and smart. She's a fantastic big sister, a loyal friend, so curious about the world and so eager to step in to be a helper. Pearl loves animals, exploring, and being outdoors. She's… Continue reading Pearl is 10!
It's mid-February and the rain has returned but we had an absolutely beautiful and sunny January. Maybe it's the Vitamin D I started taking this winter, but even though January felt about 7 weeks long, it didn't feel nearly so dreary as it usually does. We had a family weekend away, booked a hotel in… Continue reading Some 2025 Highlights
Last Monday we returned to our regularly scheduled lives after our winter holiday. While I worked a few days over the winter break, Peter and the girls were all off school and so our schedule was drastically different. Working when Peter is off and can be home with the girls is 100% easier than days… Continue reading Holiday Highlights
Almost three weeks ago, just before my birthday, our family went for lunch at the local cidery. Peter told me he had a scavenger hunt planned for me. “Don’t get your hopes up too high,” he told me. “This is mostly for the girls.” Our family loves a good scavenger hunt so I happily went… Continue reading 2024 Highlights (Taylor’s Version)
Here are a few things we've been up to: Watching Justin Beaver have a bath Sunday morning Be Real A quote from my recent reading (listening): If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deed, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest… Continue reading Halfway Through November
It's been a week and although I'm late with my October What I Read post, I feel like I need to share a little life before I put it up. The obvious low point of the week was Wednesday morning, waking up to hear that Donald Trump had once more been elected president of the… Continue reading Highlights and Lowlights
Our sweet, not-so-little girl is 7! I'm a bit behind in posting this (and Peter has also had a birthday since) but today is Thanksgiving here in Canada and at the top of my Thankfulness List are my girls. Rose is funny, feisty, affectionate, and daring. She loves to be with her friends, she loves… Continue reading Rose is 7!
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