Category: Our Daughter

From dresses and bows to T-shirts and ‘No’s’

I know it sounds ridiculous, but now that our daughter only wants to wear store-bought jeans and T-shirts, I’m having a bit of an identity crisis. When school is back in session, I won’t be the mom who sews cute dresses with matching hair bows.

Exhausted parents, here’s how to hang in there before school starts

I am exhausted. Truly. We are in parental damage control mode, where it’s all about just surviving the next month and getting to the finish line that is Sept. 8 – the first day of school.

Nova Scotia schools will be back in session, and here’s the plan

Charge me triple for school supply fees. Ask me to buy hazmat suits for the class. Enlist me to be a volunteer bus monitor to make sure kids keep their masks on. Anything. Seriously, I will accommodate literally any request, as long as my kids can return to school and have a mostly normal life again.

Celebrating kids’ birthdays under quarantine

If you have a child who will be celebrating their birthday during the restrictions, here are a few tips that helped us throw our daughter a truly memorable birthday …

Home sick, and bored to tears

Home sick, and bored to tears

If I made being home sick too fun, they wouldn’t get the rest they need and they’d want to stay home all the time.