Life In Pleasantville
Food, Travel, Life
There are curled, dried up maple leaves on my driveway this morning and I can hardly smell sunscreen on my kids anymore. There’s been no sticky burnt marshmallow crust in my hair for almost a week and every store I go to has aisles full of sullen children crying over pencil crayon displays. Summer’s all …
When I became a mother I knew the role would require me to fulfill certain tasks, but I never realized how it would be a full-time job keeping my children satiated. Children everywhere around me appeared to be hungry at all times and it was a given that I should prevent my kids from understanding …
Recently, I was “unfriended” on Facebook. It’s possible this has happened with others before but I never noticed. I have somewhere around 230 “friends” give or take a few but I don’t watch the number count with an eagle eye so I could definitely miss it. This particular person though I did notice because in …
I might be the only one not offended by the Wall Street Journal’s recent article on mommy blogger conferences. I missed the initial brouhaha on social media when the story cracked. After reading an angry tweet, I searched for the article and had my pitch fork at the ready. I mean, if my fellow bloggers …
By Candace Derickx And so it happened. On a recent trip south with my girls, they noticed. They are eight and ten now after all, so naturally they are beginning to note that men and women wear wildly different attire to swim in. Some wear bikinis, some wear one pieces, some wear swim trunks and …
By Dee Brun Rosemount Diamond Shiraz This is one of my all time favourites. The whole Rosemount line up is FABOOSH, you will not go wrong with one of their wines. This is a bold wine with dark berry flavour, it goes down very smooth, sometimes too smooth. $15.95 Yellowglen PINK sparkling This is …
I live by a simple credo — friends don’t give friends fruitcake. Maybe that explains why I have so many good friends, because I’ve never given any of them a damn fruitcake. In fact, if I gave fruitcake to someone it would be the equivalent of the mob handing over a dead fish. Read: there …
Mojo n. * Self-confidence, Self-assuredness. As in basis for belief in ones self in a situation. Good luck fetish / charm to bolster confidence. Ability to bounce back from a debilitating trauma and negative attitude Last Friday, out of the blue, my mojo got up and left. Not a word or warning ahead of …
