Observations of what’s hot and what’s not from the haze of the post partum bliss. 1. Disposable knickers and socks with grips are the fashion accessory du jour. Paired together with dark circles, bedhead and your butt hanging out of your hospital gown, it’s what all the cool kids are wearing. I know what I’m …
So I’m writing this from the hospital on my iPhone, waiting for Big Monkey to return with all the clear fluids he can find to help get me through what appears to be me going into labor…and the eventual birth of our baby girl. Something about 36.5 weeks, my babies like to make their appearance …
I started writing about where I went in New York, what I was enjoying and what I was adjusting to as a means of chronicling my move and leaving a story behind for not only myself, but for my kids. I want to be able to show Monkey #1 the experiences he is being exposed …
This post is inspired by a dream I had last night. I guess my brain is understandably enough focused on all things baby. I don’t know for an absolute fact that these would be the worst places, but if you read on you’ll see that it’s highly unlikely you’d want to go into labor in …
New York is a city that I have been in love with since the first time I got off a bus from Montreal to visit waaaay back in my early 20’s. Something about the energy, hustle and bustle, bright lights and the people. Years later in a very different stage of my life I have …
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It’s been well over 15 years since I last trick or treated growing up in Eastern Canada. I remembering the freezing cold nights with 2-3 layers of clothes under my costume. Sometimes it wasn’t even obvious what my costume was because I needed to add a jacket over top to combat the biting cold wind …
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