Christmas is a bit of Things Explosion. I’m not going to get all minimalist ‘let’s jet off to India for six weeks and just bring a carry-on bag between four people’. It’s not even ‘smash the state, man, they just want us to buy things to support their dirty corporate agenda to make us all …
Elliot likes making things. Elliot somehow amasses toys. I’m not sure how, because we really don’t buy that many for him. When Christmas rolls around, I’ve been asking our family to give him gift certificates towards classes or drop-ins, rather than things. At three years old, I know we’re reaching the end of when that …
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We’ve had an unprecedented stretch of dry weather in Vancouver this autumn. When it ended this past weekend in a spectacular three-day downpour, I realised I’d let my rainy day activity plan bank run low. On a Sunday, where to go with an antsy preschooler and a poorly mum that wouldn’t be an absolute zoo? …
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Ever since he received his Strider bike for his birthday, Elliot has been keen to be out and about. Every morning starts with ‘Mummy, bike ride?’ and continues until we go. Lately, we’ve been stopping to find horse chestnuts, or conkers, as they’re called in the old country. We line up all the conkers we …
My thrifted Ilse Jacobsen boots in action Last Sunday morning, I dragged my family down to a street corner on the edge of the Olympic Village, armed with all the pairs of kitchen tongs we owned. I had signed us up for the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup several months ago, and we were meeting our …
