HAPPY CANADA DAY!

July 1 is Confederation Day in Canada, affectionately known as Canada Day! Happy Canada Day to my fellow Canadians!  This is my first Canada Day as a Canadian Citizen – and that’s pretty cool! Hope you all have a great day of celebrating with your...

School in June is Weird – WW

School is FINALLY out for the summer here.  Having the kids in school for all of June is STILL so weird for me, and we just finished our 6th year of school.  You think I’d be use to it by now, but I’m not. I grew up going to school though the end...

Follow Me – I’m Canadian blog hop

Welcome to Follow Me, I’m CanadianThe Great Canadian Link ExchangeHOSTED BY: Tanya of Little Village Naturals and Kat of Kat’s Confessions creators of Canadian Moms – An online community for Canadian Moms and We Are Canadian – An online...

The Girls From Ames – Review

A few weeks back I was sent a book in the mail to review, thanks to my connection on TwitterMoms.  I was quite excited to get and read the book, the subject matter being near and dear to my heart. The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship by...

Barefoot on the Balance Board

I have recently taken up exercising with the Wii Fit and not long after I started I found the online group called the Wii Mommies!  LOVE that community over there, by the way, and Julie is a hoot!I heard early-on somewhere that we aren’t supposed to wear...

Coming Along

Well, things are finally coming along here on this new site.  I’ve moved a few of my reviews over here, and have a few new ones to add shortly.  These things take time, as you know, and with it being the end of the school year here, time feels like one...

Purchased Teacher Gifts?

This is almost unheard of for me… I had to BUY things for our teachers’ end of the year appreciation gifts this year. I almost always MAKE a gift – usually a nice table runner or something – for the female teachers anyway.This year I have been...

End of the Year Crunch – WW

Is it really Wednesday?  Yes, it is, in fact, almost Thursday at this point.  SHEESH!  Where does the time go?This week has been spent finishing up all those loose end things that HAVE to be done before school is over (in 2 days for 1 son, in 5 days for...