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Remember those old time Valentine card craft books? You had to cut your own cards out and then paste together the envelopes. They had cute drawings with awful love puns and no matter how careful I was, they always turned

Did you get out and party on New Year’s Eve? The age-appropriate activities and shenanigans I’ve enjoyed over the years have evolved with the passing of time and I was reminiscing recently about my favorite decade for these celebrations. In

Another December is upon us and I am baking up a mountain of cookies for the holidays. Everybody has their favorite and I do my best to make enough for the family and our friends. I have been making the

I think I was 10 when I started watching the Donny and Marie show and I thought they were so funny and talented and Marie was so ah-mah-zing and Donny was….eeeww boys! So, this month I get to see them

Oh yeah baby…it’s that time of year again. The other day, my kids and I were recalling some of the fun costumes they have worn over the years and then just for kicks, I tried to remember what get-ups I

*** News Flash – I’m having a Hot Flash *** Super fun… And this is the latest in a long line of recent developments in my life. I understand I am going through ‘the change’ so some new and stupefying

Is it my imagination or did there used to be old train locomotives that featured in several public playgrounds across the province.  They seem to have disappeared from the inventory of suitable play items.  As my kids have grown, I

When the kids were little, one of the first official events of the summer was to go strawberry picking. We tried many different farms and finally settled on the Bob Featherstone berry patch in Richmond mainly because when I asked

It’s that time of year again when we must batten down the hatches and prepare for summer and the onslaught of free time and how to fill it. Not for me of course but for the young’uns. And seriously, who

This may come as a surprise to some of you but I am a huge Star Wars fan. Maybe I haven’t been able to get my geek on in recent years but certainly in the 70’s when the movie was

Another month already?! This year appears to be flying by. Did everyone survive the school break last month? Dontcha just love it that the school board now publishes on their calendar that only one week is Spring Break and the

So here I am, going about my business when out of the blue I have been reminded that my oldest kid is about to turn 20. And this mildly shocking truth has me staring into space yet again wondering, how