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January 2025 – Fire and Ice
I seem to have chosen an interesting site format that currently showed all of my text being typed in cap lock. I will one day pay greater attention to the ui of the site and the fact that a lot of the photos that i upload here also seem to lack centring of the objects Read more
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Childcare Costs- Are they really hidden?
Living in a gentrified city and attending mothers groups or even being part of Facebook groups with other mothers in your neighbourhoods has been equal part enlightening and equal parts frustrating. The socio-economic diversity of the parents who live in a city has never been more unequal. The same 1 kilometre radius will have daycares Read more
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Are You Setting These Goals?
My goals of the coming year might be the same as yours. Are yours? Read more
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Break in the Routine
I am trying to do something different than going to a restaurant or a bar for our date night tomorrow but it seems that won’t really be possible given that it’s a work day and our date will be after 5 pm so we don’t want to hike too late and commute too late. One Read more
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Old Friendships, Revisited
When you have been friends with someone from when you were 12 years old, your conversations start out about pencils, to your first periods and how it feels, then how long apart your periods are (in the first 2 years) to bewilderment over having to take biology or physics as a standalone subject instead of Read more
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Summer Picnics – A State of Mind
As someone who has always internalized external weather elements and had their plans impacted by the seasons I’ve struggled with doing anything when it’s not summer. Summer is for picnics, outdoor movie nights, more walks and just more outdoors. There are two things that have severely constrained these plans, the first is having kids (a Read more
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This is it.
This is It. Today morning was the first day of Spring and the clocks turned back. So when it was 6.55 am my son jumped into my bed and woke us up and wanted to start our day but after finally shushing him and taking him to his room so that my husband could get Read more
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Making Better Decisions
Was 2020 the most stressful and worst year of your life? For me, 2020 was a welcome change of pace – the first time in 14 years that I was spending time at on weekdays at home. Prior to that, I was away in the UK for university and then I was in the office Read more
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Mommy Burn-Out
I’ve always despised the “busy” era we live in where booking a coffee with someone requires weeks of notice and nothing is really spontaneous anymore. Worse still, is the glorification of being busy that our culture applauds. Being busy somehow means purposeful whereas I think it lacks intention and meaning. Since becoming a mother and Read more
The Transplant 