Another Mom Blog

This blog post originally wasn’t going to be a blog post but instead an update on our personal social media pages, like most things I had too much to say. My partner and I thought we would share because like many people there are days we feel overwhelmed with the news, the stats, the images. We are all currently receiving so much information both on the internet and social media regarding…

Last week a friend sent me a picture of us from 10 years ago, it came up as a reminder on her facebook. Having shut down my own personal facebook long ago I do not have as many pictures of that time, nor do I receive random reminders of memory lane. Unless I go through the effort of finding photo albums, either physical or virtual ones, when I think back to that time the images all seem to fade…

Cillian was a very happy and engaging baby, loved attention from everyone and was born with that ability to attract people to him. Cillian also had a lot of changes in his short life – well relative to the first world Western society he is being raised in. He currently is living in his fourth home in two years, moved across the country, made friends and left, stayed home with me, went to daycare,…

To say that I took a hiatus from writing is an understatement, I have no real excuse except life. In the modern day juggling act of family, home, career, adulting, Netflix, maybe the gym and sleep, keeping up with my blog didn’t make the list – in reality neither did the gym.

I wasn’t quite sure how to start this blog post, or when to start this blog post, or if I would start this blog post, but…

Sorry it’s been a while since I wrote a blog post, I have a few started and not completed and then you know life happens… We also have had an amazing Fall which means we are never home when we aren’t obligated to be.

I have just come back from another work trip, and while I didn’t think this would be something I would write about again so quickly, here we go.

As you can probably tell by now, my…

Water Water Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink

I am sure I am feeling the same way as most Canadians or people who live in the Northern Hemisphere, in a place where the inevitable white stuff is soon to grace us with its presence… where did the Summer go?

I feel like it was just warm enough to go into the ocean – scratch that, it was just warm enough to attempt to go into the ocean. It was a hot Summer this year, and we tried to get to the…

Leaving on a Jet Plane

Since Cillian has been born we have spent almost every moment together, until the dreaded-not-so-bad-going-back-to-work thing that happened. My partner and I, partially due to circumstance and partially due to choice haven’t taken a lot of moments for us, I mean beyond the obvious one – the hour and half after you finally get Mr. FOMO down for his night sleep and the pure exhaustion of the day…

Working 9 to 5

The idea of going back to work haunted me throughout my entire maternity leave, similar to that cringeworthy moment you tried unsuccessfully to seduce your crush and got publicly rejected – and now every once and while when you are feeling great about your adulting, that moment pops into your head and you shrivel inside a bit. I would be off enjoying my day at the beach, or a random Tuesday at…

You are currently asleep in our bed because it is rainy outside and I wanted snuggles – the only time you stay still long enough to get snuggles is right before you fall asleep – I know this probably is looked down upon in most parenting books.

It’s absolutely mind boggling to me that you are about to celebrate your first birthday, that a year ago you were still a huge mystery in my belly (not…

Our whole life is about milestones, even death is a milestone – not usually celebrated the same way, as say your first kiss or bow chicka wow wow, but still a milestone. Milestones are literal markers on a road to tell you how far you have come, and the dictionary describes milestones as a significant event or stage in life, progress or development. I like milestones, they are life’s goals and I…

Will You Be My Friend?

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I wasn’t exactly Casanova when it came to dating, well apparently that awkward, not picking up on cues and overall ignorance to the process, is also my style when it comes to making friends – something I didn’t realize I was in want of.

In my Calgary life making friends was something that happened naturally and there was always an in, either someone you knew, a…

Home Sweet Rental…

You know when you plan out your life perfectly, or at least the next steps you are going to take, and because you are a bit of a control freak who doesn’t trust people 100%, you also go a bit above and beyond on the due diligence that everything is ready to go. Then the universe or whomever decides, nope I don’t like the way this story is heading and throws a wrench into everything… this has been…

Sorry I haven’t written in a while, the last few weeks I have been on my own personal version of Oregon Trail – you know the computer game where nine of your 10 children die of dysentery and the last few of you remaining drown after you finally reach the damn river you have to cross. My version included a Santa Fe XL with heated and cooling seats, a GPS system, one well traveled baby, two…

You know when you break up with someone for the first little while all you think about is how amazing they were, all these wonderful qualities pop into your head – half of them I am sure are something you made up to romanticize the relationship and other half while accurate, when you were in the relationship were not nearly as visible. Now that you and this person, whether a friend or lover are…

Family, people related to each other usually by blood but not necessary. They are people that have helped shape you into the awkward, opinionated, light hearted (a paradox) “adult”. They love you no matter how often you bicker over directions, attitude, or ocean vs. mountains. For the majority of your life they have been the people you talked to when you were at a crossroads, need advice, to…

In the honour of the month of love I thought it would be a fitting time to talk about my relationship. Like love stories from years gone by, ours started out at a hipster bar. Two awkward humans – one with adult braces (me), who had experienced enough tragic love in the form of online dating, tried the old fashion method of talking in person after finding a kindred spirit amongst the cool and…