Moving with Frogboxes
Forget wrestling with silly cardboard boxes. Reusable packing crates like Frogboxes are the way to go.
A sea of boxes
We’ve moved, again. This time, within the same city, but what a production nonetheless! When we moved from London to Vancouver, Elliot was that bit younger and it didn’t seem to bother him. This time around, whoa. For the month before it was a constant discussion of what was going in the truck and …
Paper airplanes everywhere
Elliot is obsessed with paper airplanes at the minute. Every remotely foldable piece of anything is handed to me: ‘Please make into paper airplane, Mummy?’ I’ve used magazine subscription inserts, construction paper, pages torn from Anthropologie catalogues – anything and everything. My own paper airplane engineering skills were clearly not doing it anymore, so I …
Mothers making a difference – March for Dimes
Did you know that in 1949, mothers across Canada went door to door asking for ‘just a dime’ to fund the fight against polio? I didn’t. A terrifying disease that disabled of hundreds of thousands of children and adults every year until a massive vaccination programme pretty much cleared the disease from the global population. …
Things I’m excited to do this season
The Magic of Santa Last Christmas passed in a bit of a whirl. I wasn’t comfortable enough in the city yet to figure out where we should go. This year, however, I feel much more prepared. There are a few things I’m looking forward to sharing with Elliot, now 3 years old, who is just …