How are you feeling about closing down this last year? I'm thinking that I'm very happy to be putting 2016 behind me. I'm so done with the shenanigans of this monkey year. But I'm also grateful for the lessons and
Santa came after all!! So many prezzies. A whole harbour in a box. I made pillows for each of the girls with some vintage flannel which belonged to my grandmother and I appliqued their names on them. Morgan had the best time with
I'm sitting in front of an open fire here in my peaceful and quiet living room this night before Christmas thinking what a whirl-wind day this has been. I got the house ready last night and waited (a little anxiously) for
I'm so excited to have my older children and their families here for the Christmas holidays, and, since I don't usually have such a large crowd I rarely bake the kinds of traditional Czech Christmas cookies my grandmother (babi in
Hi everyone, This post is long in coming and I've been looking at it for several days now, but the truth is that I'm finding Christmas very hard this year. Ok, I'm just going to stop writing about that now because
There was a bit of daylight already when I walked into the kitchen to make my second cup of tea. Some of us were resolutely still in bed, but the little over-wintering hummingbird was out sitting on his feeder outside my
Hi everyone, Today was my monthly therapy journal session at the wellness centre. Today I worked with nine wonderful women all dealing with coming back to health after cancer. All of us coming together with art. You know, over these two years
Well, what a turn-up for the books! Our rare and lovely light dusting of snow was scheduled for a change. Driving X-town listening to CBC, the words "Vancouver" and "Snowmageddon" were being brandished about on the radio. OMG everyone take cover! Now
Just before Robert's return to OXON, we ran out to the country to pick up a specialty tool for him. And while we were out there, we kept going. We ended up in the quaint little town of Fort Langley
Sunday was so beautiful here in Van that Robbie and I drove down to the local lumber yard and bought some wood for some new privacy pergolas around the edges of the gardens. Then we got to work digging a