Category: Our Daughter

How our kids call and text without a phone plan

Now that our kids are full-fledged tweens (10 and 12 years old), we needed a reliable way to reach them on their hand-me-down phones.

The end of an era

My children have grown up smiling through the pages of newspapers across Atlantic Canada, and now they have a thick scrapbook of brightly coloured newspaper clippings to look back on — a storybook of their younger kids, captured forever on newsprint. 

New school year, new worries

Unmasked kids combined with potentially removing face mask requirements one week into the new school year, and you’ve got a perfect storm for worried, anxious parents.

Surviving the first big slumber party

Everything was going great … until it wasn’t.

I was washing the dishes when a wide-eyed child appeared in my kitchen, motioning to the backyard where six little girls had all been playing nicely just moments earlier.

“You’d better get out there,” she told me darkly. “People are sad.”

The magic of something new

When your child is wonderful at something new and unexpected, it’s like you’re seeing them again for the first time.