Last week we spent a glorious, albeit cold, week up in Whistler.  We weren’t missing much at home because it was cold there too, but folks, it only got warmer than 60 degrees one day in the six we were there.  That called for me to purchase a new fleece.  I was fully justified, right? […]

My kids have led a sheltered, deprived life.  They have only seen fireworks on TV and not usually when they are going off live.  (We did wake them up last year to watch the 4th of July fireworks from our front deck but they were too tired to stay longer than three minutes.) This year […]

This year we were fortunate enough to celebrate two Independence Days.  Last week we were in Whistler BC for Canada’s Independence Day celebration on July 1st.  We saw a fabulous parade through Whistler village and I would have loved to show you pictures of my kids in their red and white CANADA sweatshirts but my […]

If I had written this blog post a couple of weeks ago I would have called it ‘Deprived’.  That’s how I was feeling for sure, but the further we progress into this adventure in eating the easier it gets. In May I had the girls and I tested for food sensitivities.  We met with a […]

This is my favorite kind of picture to take.  I much prefer to capture real emotions than stiff smiles any day.  I consider it a good day if I can get one or two good shots like this.  The fabulous thing is this family enjoys each other so much that I got a ton of […]

Yesterday the girls became obsessed with trying to raise money. Jill has decided that she wants to buy an iPod Touch (where did THAT idea come from?) with her own money. She will then, in turn, sell her Nano to Ellie who will then sell Kate her Shuffle. It’s a very complicated hierarchy that considers […]