Sharing my random life is what I do best
Advents calendars played a big part of my childhood during Christmas. It was exciting to wake up each morning and get a taste of milk chocolate before breakfast. I don’t ever recall there being options outside of chocolate calendars. Now you can get calendars with beauty products, lego pieces
The last two weeks have felt like we’ve lived a year. I honestly can’t tell you what I did last week because my focus has been on trying to understand and protect my family, friends, and myself from coronavirus or covid-19. As an adult, there’s a lot of anxiety, fear, and uncertainty about what the next few weeks, possibly months hold, so I can only imagine what that must feel like for our children. As parents, we should be aware that our kids are taking cues from our responses and behaviours. It’s a tough situation to be in as a parent because we need to keep our anxieties and fears in check as we talk to our younger kids about coronavirus. Here are some of my tips on how to handle the topic of covid-19 with younger children.
I recently had a conversation with a pregnant friend of mine. We started chatting about pregnancy and labour since she was coming up on her due day. I wasn’t even really putting much thought when I told her that labour really wasn’t that bad but I was taken back a bit when she and her husband both thanked me for my 2 cents. They went on to say that I was the first person who hadn’t told them some labour horror story. That made me think back to all the stories I heard before I gave birth, and I hadn’t realized it before, but they were right. I remember hearing a lot of labour horror stories from friends, co-workers, strangers. It’s almost like the minute we see a pregnant woman, we have this need to share some horrid labour story with her for some reason and that really needs to stop because it won’t help her when the time comes.
If someone told me years ago that I would be using a small device to turn on lights, turn up my house’s temperature, and find answers to questions with my voice, I would laugh out loud. Well, it’s happened. When Amazon released its Alexa enabled devices in Canada, I bit the bullet and purchased the Echo Plus as well as a few Echo Dots and an Echo Show (which is only available for purchase in the USA). Here’s the thing I didn’t realize how much I would actually use it and how much fun we would have with it.
There are moments in life where we get to choose our paths. Although these moments may seem small and insignificant to us, these moments might make a world of difference to someone else.Read More
Growing up, I can tell you that the only thing I remember about Remembrance Day is pretty much sitting in a large gymnasium with a bunch of my elementary school friends who were told to be quiet as our Principle spoke and then being told to stay quiet during the eleventh hour. I wasn’t raised in a military family, I had never heard stories of war unless they were in school books, and we never attended cenotaphs, the sacrifices were stories to me. Never once, as a child did I truly understand Remembrance Day. I simply thought it was a day to remember anyone who had died.Read More
