What a weekend! It’s Wednesday today, a full three days after the Vancouver Folk Music Festival wound up and we’re still pretty exhausted, in a good way. It didn’t help that the boys have been sick with pneumonia for the last two weeks and this mama was at her wits end. The Folk Fest weekend…
Summer Fun at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival 2017
2017 marks the 40th year of the Vancouver Folk Music Festival and will be my family’s fourth year attending. I am looking forward to this event more than any other in Vancouver this year because it combines many of the things I love all in one. Music, food, beer, and napping. I’ve known about this…
Alias Grace is coming to CBC and Netflix
It’s been a long time since I read Alias Grace, the award-winning historical novel by Margaret Atwood, nearly 20 years in fact. So when I saw that it was coming to CBC and Netflix I was a tad excited. Of course, I will reread it too as I’ve been steadily reading one novel a month…
Review: Blend and Boost Customized Skin Care
Six weeks ago I was introduced to a fully customized skin care treatment cream that near blew my mind. I don’t often say this about cosmetics as I’ve yet to find a product that has given such impressive results. But having spent many years as a skincare therapist, I’ve performed all kinds of treatments and used a…
5 Lessons about Feminism for my Son
5 Lessons from Feminism I’m teaching my son I am hard at work teaching my son, from a feminist perspective, the values that men of my generation may have missed out on. Maybe that is just my experience but many of the men I know are mostly still struggling to make sense of what they feel and…
Cheap-ish Wine Find: Mad Housewife Chardonnay
What’s domestic bliss without a little wine, you ask? Wait, did you ask? Oh nevermind. One downside about blogging is I confuse actual conversations with other people with those I have. All. By. Myself. Shudder… Kind of like dreams. Like that dream I had about a six-year-old boy who lives in my house who…oh wait….
Family vacations with a small car? A hybrid minivan, more like.
When the yearning to hit the road for a long weekend getaway starts with ‘okay so… how are we going to cram all this stuff into our tiny car’ and leads to ‘we’ll have to rent a truck so we can see out the windows!’, road trips don’t happen very often. Okay, okay. Our car isn’t…