Is there such a thing as loving your website but wanting to change everything about it? I get some wonderful comments on my site and I love being here, but in the same vein — I want to be there (points to somewhere random in front of me). Last week I got an email from [...]
Yesterday marked the 100th day that I did something for myself. I didn’t really announce I was doing it, or talk about it as it was happening, but it was my goal to do something small each day for 100 days to reconnect with myself and to remind myself of small messages that sometimes get [...]
I was just chatting with (in my opinion) some of the best women anyone would be lucky enough to call their friends, and the topic of our birthdays when we were young came up. This got me thinking about a couple of things. The first is that (and I’m going to brag a little here), [...]
I find myself not wanting to think too much into this because I fear what the answer means for all of us. The final date for our local Target has been set. The West Edmonton Mall location will close on April 2nd. It wasn’t the first to close, and the rest will be gone by [...]
I’ve been mulling over a story I read a couple of days ago about the CEO of a company who wrote an article on Fortune.com where she apologizes to all of the mothers that she used to work with. In the article, she talks about moments where she never stood up for mothers on her [...]
Like many others, I watched with interest as Target Canada began their first day of liquidation sales. The tweets and Facebook statuses began to flow followed by news coverage this evening that left me feeling uneasy. Many were upset that the deals in the store weren’t absolutely rock bottom. Yes, an internal memo was released [...]
I’ve been reading about a lot of the Target locations across Canada. It looks like some stores are near empty and they could close any day. My daughter and I dropped by our location at West Edmonton Mall on Saturday to check the store out and walk the empty aisles to see it before it [...]
Today reminds me of my family. We are all spread out across two countries right now, but there’s something about memories that pulls me back and makes me feel like I never left home. My family loves to laugh. We tell jokes, and on special days, like today, we try to out-prank each other. I [...]
I feel like I need to write this post, partly because I don’t want to suffer in silence, but mostly because I don’t remember feeling this way last year and I want something to look back on a year from now and either feel justified in my convictions, or corrected. I was having a conversation [...]
Our family had a fun Valentine’s Day together but all day long, I had the feeling I was forgetting something. Dinner was prepared and little tokens of love were bought and made, but something was missing. Or someone. It wasn’t until I was sitting on our daughter’s bed, reading her an Olivia Valentine’s book that [...]
At about the same time the snow began to fly last fall, we started to go through our home room by room and we began our first wave of downsizing. It began smoothly. We started on the top floor, so most of it either needed to go to another room, or was put in our [...]