Category: Darling Husband

A day in the life

Posted on August 28, 2012 by

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I’ve been meaning to do one of these posts FOREVER, but it kept getting away from me. I love reading them when other bloggers write them, so I figured I had to take some notes and make it a priority. I work on a… Continue Reading “A day in the life”

Category: A day in the life, Darling Husband, Our Daughter, Our Son, Toddlers

Five things about salads

Posted on June 13, 2012 by

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I have never eaten so many consecutive salads in my life since joining Weight Watchers Online on Sunday. I don’t like salad. No, not even with salad dressing. But I am eating it anyway. It’s best when I try not to think about it… Continue Reading “Five things about salads”

Category: Darling Husband

Whirlwind

Posted on May 23, 2012 by

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Dear C, My darling baby girl, today you are exactly four weeks old. It is so cliche for a new parent to exclaim, “It’s going by too quickly!” and “I can’t believe they’re so big already!” but … it’s just all so true. It… Continue Reading “Whirlwind”

Category: Darling Husband, Letters to my baby, Newborns, Our Daughter, Our Son

Two kids, two names, two ways to mess up

Posted on May 2, 2012 by

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Is it totally horrible that for the first few days, I kept calling our daughter by our son’s name? No? It isn’t? OK, good. My mother grew up in a family with eleven (11!) kids, so she says they were always getting called the… Continue Reading “Two kids, two names, two ways to mess up”

Category: Darling Husband, Our Daughter, Our Son

The Pregnant Chick Who Went Crazy Over Bathroom Shelves: A Memoir

Posted on April 10, 2012 by

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So, today I’m 36.5 weeks pregnant. The baby is arriving in precisely* 15 days. FIFTEEN DAYS, PEOPLE! (*Yes, precisely. If you’re new to the show, let’s re-cap: Our heroine is having a scheduled C-section, since last time she experienced a 17+ hour labour with a… Continue Reading “The Pregnant Chick Who Went Crazy Over Bathroom Shelves: A Memoir”

Category: Darling Husband, Marriage, Nesting, Preggo-ness, Second time around, Third trimester, Week 37

I’m Heather Laura Clarke. I’m a writer living in beautiful Nova Scotia, I have a 15-year-old son and a 13-year-old daughter, I married my high school sweetheart, and this is the story of my handmade life.

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