Life In Pleasantville
Food, Travel, Life
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about young kids and online games. For the record, I don’t like them. Also for the record, my son plays them. But he does a lot of things I don’t enjoy seeing happen, like dirt-bike jumps and growing. I hate these games in general and in specific. I hate them the …
If you have kids and live on the planet you know all about who is popular on television. Everyone has a favourite show and favourite characters and yes maybe even their favourite camps as far as production companies go. Are your kids Disney fans or are they Nickelodeon fans? Are they asking for spaghetti …
Cavalia’s Odysseo is a big tent experience like no other. As a rule I avoid live animal shows; seeing them perform tricks that go against their instinct is cruel. But I know horses well and depending on the personality of an animal, horses enjoy working with people and thrive on learning and bonding with their …
Easter Brunch is one of my favorite things. I think because it is an official sign that summer is finally on it’s way. The colors of Easter are pretty and fun. Brunch in itself is FABOOSH because it is served late enough in the morning it is more than acceptable to have a cocktail. After …
I consider myself an expert now at April Fool’s Day. That’s kind of what happens when you have trolls for parents: you learn it’s a dog-eat-dog world of short-sheeting, unscrewed salt shakers, and being woken up at the crack of dawn by air horns. And then you learn how to plot revenge. Many pranks are …
Our family loves winter. Snow is awesomely-wonderfully-fun and versatile. You can use it for snowball fights, skiing, snowshoeing, sledding, and snow angels. But most importantly, you can use it to build. From the time our son was barely able to walk, my husband Dave was out there building forts (Who’s the bigger kid, eh?) Afraid …
Canadians know how to throw a party, and we don’t let a little thing like -21C (that’s -6F for our American friends) stop us. After all, if we restricted our celebrations to the days we felt all ten toes and our ears weren’t red, some parts of Canada would only get out for nine weeks …
Today (January 14) will mark the five-year anniversary of my Momdom – it’s my son’s fifth birthday. I can still feel the weight of his 7lb13oz when the doctor placed him in my arms. I can still see the tears in his father’s eyes – and in my mom’s eyes – as we all marvelled …
